Unpopular Culture /
This collection includes eighteen essays that introduce the concept of unpopular culture and explore its critical possibilities and ramifications from a large variety of perspectives. Proposing a third term that operates beyond the dichotomy of high culture and mass culture and yet offers a fresh ap...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; What is Unpopular Culture?; Martin Lüthe & Sascha Pöhlmann; Why We Talk the Talk We Talk; On the Emptiness of Terms, the Processual Un/Popular, and Benefits of Distinction-Some Auto-Ethnographical Remarks; Martin Butler; Big Fish; On the Relative Popularity of Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway1; Dominika Ferens; How (Not) to Make People Like You; The Anti-Popular Art of David Foster Wallace; James Dorson; Dissenting Commodities; Negotiations of (Un)popularity in Publications Critical of Post-9/11 U.S.-America; Elizabeth Kovach.
- Secrets, Lies and The Real HousewivesThe Death of an (Un)Popular Genre; Dan Udy; Karaoke Americanism Gangnam Style; K-pop, Wonder Girls, and the Asian Unpopular; Jeroen de Kloet and Jaap Kooijman; 'When order is lost, time spits'; The Abject Unpopular Art of Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge; Florian Zappe; 'Famous in a Small Town'; The Authenticity of Unpopularity in Contemporary Country Music1; Christian Schmidt; Making Christianity Cool; Christian Pop Music's Quest for Popularity; Bärbel Harju; Listening to Bad Music; White Power and (Un)Popular Culture; C. Richard King; Hipster Black Metal?
- Deafheaven's Sunbather and the Evolution of an (Un)popular GenrePaola Ferrero; Unpopular Culture and the American Reception of Tinariwen; Barry Shank; Cultural Studies and the Un/Popular; How the Ass-Kicking Work of Steven Seagal May Wrist-Break Our Paradigms of Culture; Dietmar Meinel; Unpopular Sport Teams and the Social Psychology of 'Anti-Fans'; Karsten Senkbeil; Popular, Unpopular; When First World War Museums Meet Facebook; Catherine Bouko; Unpopular American Natural Calamities and the Selectivity of Disaster Memory; Susanne Leikam; The Unpopular Profession?
- Graduate Studies in the Humanities and the Genre of the 'Thesis Hatement'Sebastian M. Herrmann; Contributors; Index.