1st Edition
Popular Culture in Modern France A Study of Cultural Discourse
By Brian Rigby
Copyright 1991
236 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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`Culture' is one of the most frequently used terms in the French vocabulary. It sells not only books, newspapers and magazines but also consumer products and political parties. But what are the meanings of `culture populaire'? What have the French understood by it, and what is its history? Brian Rigby's lively and cogent study traces changing notions of popular culture in France, from 1936 - the... Read more
1 From high culture to ordinary culture, 2 Popular culture and popular education: leisure, work and culture, 3 Culture and the working class and working-class culture, 4 Popular culture as barbaric culture: the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, 5 Culture, the state and 1968, 6 Mass culture, pop culture and pluralism
Biography
Brian Rigby
`... a well-informed overview of debates on culture and society in France since 1936. It fills a gap and answers a need.' - French History
