Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index.
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Popular culture: this ain't no sideshow -- Precious and communicable: history in an age of popular culture -- The meaning of memory: family, class, and ethnicity in early network television -- Why remember mama? the changing face of a women's narrative -- Against the wind: dialogic aspects of rock and roll -- Cruising around the historical bloc: postmodernism and popular music in east Los Angeles -- No way out: dialogue and negotiation in reel America -- The New York intellectuals: Samuel Fuller and Edgar Ulmer -- History, myth, and counter-memory: narrative and desire in popular novels -- Mardi Gras Indians: carnival and counter-narrative in black New Orleans -- Buscando America (Looking for America): collective memory in an age of amnesia.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Lipsitz uses the modern electronic media--television, rock music, films--as guideposts on the journey to the problem of collective memory. He argues that Americans constantly battle with their ethnicity and class as a result of the ongoing dialectical between conformity and individuality. Examining ethnicity in early television, he argues that TV helped transform a culturally and ethnically diverse working class into a unified consumer class. He includes sections on culture and history; popular music, with focus on rock music in the 1960s and 1970s; and film and literature. Though Lipsitz views the commercial cultures as vehicles for the expression of the powerless peoples, he argues that the popular cultures are still the means by which Americans express their diversity. ISBN 0-8166-1805-4: $34.95.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
University of South Alabama
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mass media-- Social aspects-- United States.
Memory-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
kollektív emlékezet
tömegkultúra-- Egyesült Államok-- 20. sz.
Culture populaire-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Médias-- Aspect social-- États-Unis.
Mémoire-- Aspect social-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Mass media-- Social aspects-- United States.
Mass media-- Social aspects.
Massenkultur
Massenmedien
Memory-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Memory-- Social aspects.
Populaire cultuur.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.