COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnography, Live Aid, Pierre Bourdieu
17 Dec 2017
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To exemplify some of the arguments about the politics of popular culture, storey begins with. Cultural populism is a tendency to privilege everyday culture over culture with a capital c, especially to emphasize interpretation of popular culture texts and practices at the expense of locating them in historical and economic context. For mcguigan, cultural populism represents: the triumph of technique (especially textual analysis) over substance; a loss of critical perspective - once provided by political economy and, especially, Mcguigan seems unsettled by the uncertainties introduced by postmodern theorists. He appears to advocate a return to the qualitative judgments made by the modernist elite theorists, in particular the frankfurt school. He also labels theorists such as john fiske and paul willis cultural populists unfairly, since both do, in fact, anchor their arguments about popular culture in historical and economic contexts. Michel de certeau (the practice of everyday life, [1980] 1984, especially walking in the.
