Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory - Couverture souple

Carroll, Michael Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791447146 ISBN 13 : 9780791447147

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Examines a wide variety of cultural and technological phenomena that have helped shape American popular culture over the last 150 years.

Does technology alter our ways of being in and perceiving the world, or does it merely serve as a conduit for predetermined patterns of culture? In addressing this question, Popular Modernity in America examines a broad range of related cultural and technological phenomena-from Bing Crosby to Ice Cube, from the invention of the telegraph to the celebratory heralding of the internet in the 1990s-that have helped shape American popular culture over the past 150 years. Throughout, it avoids the binaries that label popular culture as inherently liberatory or subtly oppressive, arguing instead for the triadic relationship of experience, technology, and myth, each of which has an active role to play in how we interact with popular culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Thomas Carroll is Associate Professor of English at New Mexico Highlands University. He is the editor of No Small World: Visions and Revisions of World Literature, and coeditor of Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791447146
• ISBN 13: 9780791447147
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
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