Description |
viii, 436 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Cultural Studies: Theory, Power and the Popular. 1. Articulation and Culture. 2. Mapping Popular Culture. 3. Power and Daily Life. 4. Articulation and Agency -- Another Boring Day in...Paradise: A Rock Formation. 5. Rock Cultures and Rock Formations. 6. Rock, the Liberal Consensus and Everyday Life. 7. Rock and Youth. 8. Rock, Postmodernity and Authenticity -- "Where the Streets Have No Name": Hegemony and Territorialization. 9. Nation, Hegemony and Culture. 10. Hegemony and the Postmodern Frontier. 11. Ideology and Affective Epidemics. 12. The Disciplined Mobilization of Everyday Life -- "Real Power Doesn't Make Any Noise": Capitalism and the Left. 13. Life during Wartime. 14. "If You're Sailing on the Titanic, Go First Class": The Struggle over Capitalism. 15. "You Can't Always Get What You Want": The Struggle over the Left |
Summary |
"Consider this parodox: for many people, rock is dead, crushed by the weight of its own success and popularity, little more than a major voice of mainstream commercial entertainment. But for many others, especially among the new conservative Right, rock poses a greater threat now than ever before. What is it about rock that makes it so important in contemporary political struggles? Bringing together cultural, political, and economic analyses, Lawrence Grossberg offers an original and bold interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture in the United States." "We Gotta Get Out of This Place explores four histories: the changing role of rock in everyday life; the emergence of an affective and popular conservatism; the crisis of contemporary capitalism; and the apparent inability of the Left to respond to these changes. These critical developments are bound together by their concern with postmodernity, understood as both a structure of everyday life and as a sensibility of popular culture. Everyone wants to get out of this place, but only the Right seems to have found a way to benefit from where we are."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Great Britain |
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Popular culture |
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United States |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-430) and index |
Subject |
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Rock music -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Rock music -- United States -- 1981-1990 -- History and criticism
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LC no. |
91046191 |
ISBN |
0415903297 |
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0415903300 (paperback) |
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