We gotta get out of this place : popular conservatism and postmodern culture
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We gotta get out of this place : popular conservatism and postmodern culture
Routledge, 1992
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-430) and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780415903295
Description
Consider this paradox - for many people, rock is dead, crushed by the weight of its own success and popularity, little more than a 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 interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture. "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.
Bringing together cultural, political and economic analyses, Grossberg offers an interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock and popular culture.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415903301
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Theory, Politics and Passion
- Part 1 Cultural Studies Theory, Power and the Popular
- Chapter 1 Articulation and Culture
- Chapter 2 Mapping Popular Culture
- Chapter 3 Power and Daily Life
- Chapter 4 Articulation and Agency
- Part 2 Another Boring Day in ... Paradise: A Rock Formation
- Chapter 5 Rock Cultures and Rock Formations
- Chapter 6 Rock, the Liberal Consensus and Everyday Life
- Chapter 7 Rock and Youth
- Chapter 8 Rock, Postmodernity and Authenticity
- Part 3 "Where the Streets have no Name": Hegemony and Territorialization
- Chapter 9 Nation, Hegemony and Culture
- Chapter 10 Hegemony and the Postmodern Frontier
- Chapter 11 Ideology and Affective Epidemics
- Chapter 12 The Disciplined Mobilization of Everyday Life
- Part 4 "Real Power Doesn't Make Any Noise": Capitalism and the Left
- Chapter 13 Life During Wartime
- Chapter 14 "If You're Sailing on the Titanic, Go First Class": The Struggle Over Capitalism
- Chapter 15 "You Can't Always Get What You Want": The Struggle Over the Left
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