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SAGE PUBLISHING Introducing Cultural Studies Learning Through Practice by Walton
"An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever."- Times Higher Education "The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader to 'feel' the enthusiasm of its author which in turn becomes infectious, instilling in the reader a genuine sense of ebullient perturbation."- Art/Design/Media, The Higher Education Authority An introduction to the practice of cultural studies, this book is ideal for undergraduate courses. Full of practical exercises that will get students thinking and writing about the issues they encounter, this book offers its readers the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves. There are heuristics to help students prepare and write projects, and the book provides plenty of examples to help students develop their own ideas. Written in a creative, playful and witty style, this book: Links key concepts to the key theorists of cultural studies. Includes a wide range of references of popular cultural forms. Emphasizes the multidisciplinary nature of cultural studies. Includes pedagogical features, such as dialogues, graphs, images and recommended readings. The book's skills-based approach enables students to develop their creative skills, and shows students how to improve their powers of analysis generally. To listen to David Walton's musical response to Adorno's famous essay on jazz, please visit Adorno: Jazz Perennial Fashion . This song accompanies pages 64 to 66 of the book together with a series of questions designed to get readers to evaluate the positive and negative aspects of Adorno's approach. PART ONE: HIGH CULTURE GLADIATORS: SOME INFLUENTIAL EARLY MODELS OF CULTURAL ANALYSISCulture and Anarchy in the UK A Dialogue with Matthew ArnoldThe Leavisites and T.S. Eliot Combat Mass Urban CultureAdorno, the Frankfurt School and the 'Culture Industry'PART TWO: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF WORKING-CLASS CULTUREFrom a Day Out at the Seaside to the Milk BarRichard Hoggart and Working-Class CultureE.P. Thompson and Working-Class Culture as a Site for Conflict, Consciousness and Resistance Towards a Recognizable Theory of CultureRaymond WilliamsPART THREE: CONSOLIDATING CULTURAL STUDIES: SUBCULTURES, THE POPULAR, IDEOLOGY AND HEGEMONYIntroducing Stuart HallThe Importance and Re-evaluation of Popular Mass CultureYouth Subcultures and ResistanceA Dialogue with QuadropheniaSubcultures and Widening HorizonsFurther Strategies for PracticeHow to Dominate the Masses Without Resorting to the InquisitionAntonio Gramsci and Hegemony TheoryA Few Ways You Might Adapt Ideas from Louis Althusser to Cultural Studiesa Dialogue with Dr Jeckyll and Mr HydePART FOUR: PROBING THE MARGINS, REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN: REPRESENTATION, SUBORDINATION AND IDENTITYCrying Woolf! Thinking with FeminismAdapting Theory to Explore Race, Ethnicity and SexualityThe Case of East is EastPART FIVE: HONING YOUR SKILLS, CONCLUSIONS AND 'BEGIN-ENDINGS'Consolidating Practice, Heuristic Thinking, Creative Cri-tickle Acts and Further Research