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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: An 'Older' Order; I: WHO ARE 'THE WORKING-CLASSESS'? ; a: Questions of Approach; b: A Rough Definition; II: LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES-A SETTING; a: An Oral Tradition : Resistance and Adaptation : A Formal Way of Life; b: 'There's No Place Like Home'; c: Mother; d: Father; e: The Neighbourhood; III: THEM' AND 'US'; a: Them' : 'Self-Respect'; b: 'Us'-the Best and the Worst of It; c: Putting Up with Things' : 'Living and Letting Live' |
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IV: THE 'REAL' WORLD OF PEOPLEa: The Personal and the Concrete; b: 'Primary Religion'; c: Illustrations from Popular Art-Peg's Paper; V: THE FULL RICH LIFE; a: The Immediate, the Present, the Cheerful : Fate and Luck; b: 'The Biggest Aspidistra in the World' : Excursions into the 'Baroque'; c: Illustrations from Popular Art-Club-Singing; Part Two: Yielding Place to New; VI: UNBENDING THE SPRINGS OF ACTION; a: Introductory; b: Tolerance and Freedom; c: 'Everybody's Doing It Now' or 'The Gang's All Here' : The Group Sense and Democratic: Egalitarianism |
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D: Living in the Present and 'Progressivism'e: Indifferentism : 'Personalisation' and 'Fragmentation'; VII: INVITATIONS TO A CANDY-FLOSS WORLD: THE NEWER MASS ART; a: The Producers; b: The Process Illustrated : (i) Weekly Family Magazines; c: The Process Illustrated: (ii) Commercial Popular Songs; d: The Results; VIII: THE NEWER MASS ART: SEX IN SHINY PACKETS; a: The Juke-Box Boys; b: The 'Spicy' Magazines; c: Sex-and-violence Novels; IX: UNBENT SPRINGS: A NOTE ON A SCEPTICISM WITHOUT TENSION; a: Scepticism to Cynicism; b: Some Allegorical Figures |
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X: UNBENT SPRINGS: A NOTE ON THE UPROOTED AND THE ANXIOUSa: Scholarship Boy; b: The Place of Culture : A Nostalgia for Ideals; XI: CONCLUSION; a: Resilience; b: Summary of Present Tendencies in Mass Culture; Postscript; Notes and References; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how texts-in this case, mass publications-are stitched into the patterns of lived experience. Mixing personal memoir with social history and cultural critique, The Uses of Literacy anticipates recent interest in modes of cultural analysis that refuse to hide the author behind the mask of objective social scientific technique. In its method and in its rich accumulation of the detail of working-class life, this volume remains useful and absorbing. Hoggart's analysis achieves much of its power through a careful delineation of the complexities of working-class attitudes and its sensitivity to the physical and environmental facts of working-class life. The people he portrays are neither the sentimentalized victims of a culture of deference nor neo-fascist hooligans. Hoggart sees beyond habits to what habits stand for and sees through statements to what the statements really mean. He thus detects the differing pressures of emotion behind idiomatic phrases and ritualistic observances. Through close observation and an emotional empathy deriving, in part, from his own working-class background, Hoggart defines a fairly homogeneous and representative group of working-class people. Against this background may be seen how the various appeals of mass publications and other artifacts of popular culture connect with traditional and commonly accepted attitudes, how they are altering those attitudes, and how they are meeting resistance. Hoggart argues that the appeals made by mass publicists-more insistent, effective, and pervasive than in the past-are moving toward the creation of an undifferentiated mass culture and that the remnants of an authentic urban culture are being destroyed. In his introduction to this new edition, Andrew Goodwin, professor of broadcast communications arts at San Francisco State University, defines Hoggart's place among contending schools of English cultural criticism and points out the prescience of his analysis for developments in England over the past thirty years. He notes as well the fruitful links to be made between Hoggart's method and findings and aspects of popular culture in the United States."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Literacy -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Civilization
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Literacy
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Mass media
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Popular culture
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Working class
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056626
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351302043 |
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1351302043 |
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9781351302036 |
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1351302035 |
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9781351302012 |
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1351302019 |
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