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Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure (Media Culture & Society series)

Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure (Media Culture & Society series)

by Dr . David Rowe (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

Focusing on two major forms of popular culture - rock music and sport - David Rowe outlines the key issues involved in the understanding the diverse aspects of popular culture.

Rock music and sport encapsulate the contradictory elements of popular culture: the tensions between the commercial manufacture and marketing of popular products on the one hand, and their potential for articulating a resistive independence on the other.

David Rowe demonstrates that popular culture cannot be adequately understood without a clear grasp of the ways in which economics, ideology and culture interrelate. This relationship is explored through examples such as an examination of punk rock music in terms of its presentation as a product, its practical consciousness and its symbolic expression.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 21 Sep 1995
ISBN 10: 0803977018
ISBN 13: 9780803977013

Media Reviews
`Relentlessly intelligent, at once critical and respectful of its subjects, and carefully documented.... Rowe works through the complete range of relevant theoretical formulations and conflicting real-world forces at work in the everyday culture shared by so many today.... An encyclopedic re-integration of cultural theory, Popular Cultures bridges British, American, and Australian cultural experience and theorizing with an unmatched comprehensiveness.... Never content with the easy or the obvious, this work marks a significant advance in cultural theory and application' - Mike Real, San Diego State University
Author Bio
David Rowe is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the Universty of Newcastle in Australia. He is the co-editor of Power Play (1986) and Sport and Leisure (1990), and co-author of Contemporary Australian Television (1994). He has published on cultural studies, popular culture, sport and leisure studies in a wide range of journals including Media, Culture and Society, Cultural Studies, Leisure Studies and the Journal of Sport and Social Issues.