From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies - Hardcover

Brabazon, Tara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138416126 ISBN 13: 9781138416123

Verlag: Routledge, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, thepost-youth generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in which popular culture offers a vehicle for memory, providing the building blocks of identity - the politics and passion of life captured in an unforgettable song, an amazing nightclub, or an unexpected goal in extra time. For a fan, the joy and exhilaration is enough, but it is the task of cultural studies to understand why particular cultural forms survive the passage of time and space. Brabazon argues, with Lawrence Grossberg, that Cultural Studies isthe Generation X of the academic world. She tracks its journey away from Marxism and subcultural theory and looks at its future. In particular she explores the possibilities of popular memory studies in reclaiming and repairing the discipline of Cultural Studies - making it as relevant and as revelatory as in its revolutionary past.

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Tara Brabazon is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138416126
• ISBN 13: 9781138416123
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 202
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