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Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 A Student Guide
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This book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture firmly in relation to the post-1945 period and the economic power of the USA.
Focusing on key themes associated with modernity — secularization, industrialization, social cohesion and control, globalization and technological change this synthesis of research across a very wide field fills a gap that has long been felt by students and educators working in the field of popular culture. While it is organized as a history of cultural forms, it can also be used across a wide range of social science and humanities programmes, including media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and European studies. Covering the subject with a broad number of themes, this book discusses popular culture through visual culture and performance, games, music, film, television, and video games.
Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 will be of interest to anyone looking for an engaged but concise overview of how book production and reading practices, visual cultures, music, performance and sports and games developed across Europe in the modern period.
Introduction
Chapter 1 Reading Cultures — Modernity and the Word
Chapter 2 Seeing — The Rise of Visual Culture
Chapter 3 Performance — Rational Entertainment and Musical Theatre
Chapter 4 Play — Games in Modern Europe
Chapter 5 Music — From Folksong to Pop
Chapter 6 Film — European Genre Movies
Chapter 7 Television — A Popular Culture and Its Politics
Chapter 8 Digital Europe — The Video Game
Biography
Tobias Becker is a lecturer in modern history at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published on theatre, popular culture and urban history and co-edited a book combining these subjects (Die Stadt der tausend Freuden: Vergnűgungskultur um 1900, Bielefeld, 2011).
Len Platt is Professor of Modern Literatures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His previous publications include Writing London and The Thames Estuary 1576-2016 (Leiden, 2017), James Joyce: Texts and Contexts (London, 2012), Joyce, Race and Finnegans Wake (Cambridge, 2007), and Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890-1939 (London 2004).
From Zazel the Human Cannonball to the Eurovision Song Contest, Tobias Becker and Len Platt explore the trajectory of popular culture and mass entertainment in the modern age. This is an ambitious but completely accessible book for students and the general reader.
Professor Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University
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