Popular cultures : rock music, sport and the politics of pleasure
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Popular cultures : rock music, sport and the politics of pleasure
（The media, culture and society series）
Sage Publications, 1995
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographic references (p. [169]-181)and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Analysing the Popular
Rock Industry
Song and Business Cycles
Rock Ideology and Sound Politics
Rock Culture
Getting Away with It
The Sports Industry
Playing for Pay
Ideologies in Competition
Physical Culture and Armchair Exercise
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