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In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce "Americanness." Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama's global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world over.

Popular culture --- Civilization --- American influences. --- Netherlands --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- United States --- media --- pop culture --- culture

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The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies of her, of variable quality, have seldom got beyond the well known and usually contested 'facts' of her life. This book suggests new ways of understanding her. A 'cultural history' of Piaf means exploring her cultural, social and political significance as a national and international icon, looking at her shifting meanings over time, at home and abroad. How did she become a star and a myth? What did she come to mean in life and in death? At the centenary of her birth and more than fifty years after her passing, why do we still remember her work and commemorate her through the work of others, from Claude Nougaro and Elton John to Ben Harper and Zaz, as well as in films, musicals, documentaries and tribute acts around the world? What does she mean today?The book proposes the notion of an imagined Piaf. To a large extent, she was her own invention, not only by virtue of her talent but because she produced narratives about herself, building a mystery. But she was also the invention of others: of those she worked with but above all of her audiences, who made their own meanings from her carefully staged performances. Since her death, the world has been free to imagine new Piafs. From the 1930s until today, she has variously embodied conceptions of the 'popular' and of 'chanson' as a new kind of middlebrow, of gender, sexuality, national identity and the human condition.

Popular music --- Popular culture --- History and criticism. --- Piaf, Edith, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Piaf, Ėdit, --- Gasʹon, Ėdit Dzhovanna, --- Gassion, Edith Giovanna, --- Môme Piaf,

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Couvrant une vaste période, de la fin du xixe siècle à nos jours, l’ouvrage aborde la question de la culture ouvrière dans une perspective transnationale, interdisciplinaire et interculturelle en cohérence avec les questionnements actuels de l’historiographie : à l’heure du discours sur la mémoire du mouvement ouvrier, il en retrace l’évolution dans l’espace germanophone, en mettant en évidence des pratiques culturelles porteuses de progrès pour la classe ouvrière. La notion de culture ouvrière, prise au sens large du terme, est donc analysée dans ses implications historiques, politiques, sociologiques, linguistiques et artistiques. Plusieurs études font intervenir la dimension comparatiste avec une mise en perspective entre la Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie et le Nord-Pas de Calais. La politique culturelle de la RDA, État des travailleurs et paysans, y occupe une place centrale, montrant les limites d’une culture ouvrière imposée et uniquement centrée sur la place de l’ouvrier dans l’appareil productif. Dans le contexte d’une culture de masse, la pérennité des notions de classe ouvrière, et donc de culture ouvrière, a pu être remise en cause, mais plusieurs auteurs évoquent aussi une culture qui intègre la dimension du travail, d’un travail aliénant ou précaire, mais aussi l’absence de travail, dans des domaines comme le théâtre, la littérature ou la lutte syndicale, avec notamment les questions d’intégration des immigrés et du multiculturalisme.

Working class --- Popular culture --- History. --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Employment --- ouvrier

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Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell. Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay-a belief today perpetuated by the mass media themselves-has become the dominant view of mass culture in our time. While not defending mass culture in its present form, Brantlinger argues that the view of culture implicit in negative classicism obscures the question of how the media can best be used to help achieve freedom and enlightenment on a truly democratic basis.

Mass media --- Mass society --- Culture. --- Popular culture. --- Classicism. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Pseudo-classicism --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Civilization, Classical --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Recreation --- Culture --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social history --- Sociology --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- decadence --- historical inevitability --- crowd psychology --- Sigmund Freud --- popular culture --- mass culture --- classicism --- mass media --- social decay --- Marshall McLuhan

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This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining 'Why Fiske Still Matters' for today's students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of 'Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular'. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture.What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular ""texts"" reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? John Fiske answers these an

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