Author: Tobias Becker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000954250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture firmly in relation to the post-1945 period and the economic power of the USA. Focusing on key themes associated with modernity – secularisation, industrialisation, social cohesion and control, globalisation and technological change – this synthesis of research across a very wide field fills a gap that has long been felt by students and educators working in the field of popular culture. While it is organised as a history of cultural forms, it can also be used across a wide range of social science and humanities programmes, including media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and European studies. Covering the subject with a broad number of themes, this book discusses popular culture through visual culture and performance, games, music, film, television and video games. Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 will be of interest to anyone looking for an engaged but concise overview of how book production and reading practices, visual cultures, music, performance and sports and games developed across Europe in the modern period.
Popular Culture in Europe since 1800
Author: Tobias Becker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000954250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture firmly in relation to the post-1945 period and the economic power of the USA. Focusing on key themes associated with modernity – secularisation, industrialisation, social cohesion and control, globalisation and technological change – this synthesis of research across a very wide field fills a gap that has long been felt by students and educators working in the field of popular culture. While it is organised as a history of cultural forms, it can also be used across a wide range of social science and humanities programmes, including media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and European studies. Covering the subject with a broad number of themes, this book discusses popular culture through visual culture and performance, games, music, film, television and video games. Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 will be of interest to anyone looking for an engaged but concise overview of how book production and reading practices, visual cultures, music, performance and sports and games developed across Europe in the modern period.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000954250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture firmly in relation to the post-1945 period and the economic power of the USA. Focusing on key themes associated with modernity – secularisation, industrialisation, social cohesion and control, globalisation and technological change – this synthesis of research across a very wide field fills a gap that has long been felt by students and educators working in the field of popular culture. While it is organised as a history of cultural forms, it can also be used across a wide range of social science and humanities programmes, including media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and European studies. Covering the subject with a broad number of themes, this book discusses popular culture through visual culture and performance, games, music, film, television and video games. Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 will be of interest to anyone looking for an engaged but concise overview of how book production and reading practices, visual cultures, music, performance and sports and games developed across Europe in the modern period.
Understanding Popular Culture
Author: Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110854309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Understanding Popular Culture
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110854309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Understanding Popular Culture
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
The Culture of the Europeans
Author: Donald Sassoon
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
"This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
"This wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market - from lending libraries to the internet, from the first public concerts to music downloads."--BOOK JACKET.
Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900
Author: Richard McMahon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134007426
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity? Overall, the volume will serve to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134007426
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity? Overall, the volume will serve to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.
Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850
Author: James M. Brophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521847699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521847699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
A study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s.
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: London : Temple Smith
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: London : Temple Smith
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Culture and Identity in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800)
Author: Barbara B. Diefendorf
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472104703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Explores Natalie Zemon Davis's concept of history as a dialogue, not only with the past, but with other historians.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472104703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Explores Natalie Zemon Davis's concept of history as a dialogue, not only with the past, but with other historians.
European Readings of American Popular Culture
Author: John R. Dean
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0313294291
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture in Europe is both a European story about America and an American story about Europe. This work examines this cross-cultural phenomenon from the European viewpoint. Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsider—a fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three. Of interest to scholars, students, and general readers alike. The book's focus is both sensuous and intellectual: how America is seen (The Image); heard (Popular Music); perused (The Written Word); digested (Food); learned from its common ways (Social Customs); perceived by minorities (Ethnic Cultures); and taken as an instrument of change (Americanization). It is the first book of its kind published in the United States. It is rich with selected, up-to-date critical bibliographies in areas for which very little information is otherwise available. In sum: a cogent, cross-cultural analysis of how U.S. popular culture exposes both European dreams of well-being and nightmares of discontent. These are insights which deserve to be savored.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0313294291
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture in Europe is both a European story about America and an American story about Europe. This work examines this cross-cultural phenomenon from the European viewpoint. Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsider—a fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three. Of interest to scholars, students, and general readers alike. The book's focus is both sensuous and intellectual: how America is seen (The Image); heard (Popular Music); perused (The Written Word); digested (Food); learned from its common ways (Social Customs); perceived by minorities (Ethnic Cultures); and taken as an instrument of change (Americanization). It is the first book of its kind published in the United States. It is rich with selected, up-to-date critical bibliographies in areas for which very little information is otherwise available. In sum: a cogent, cross-cultural analysis of how U.S. popular culture exposes both European dreams of well-being and nightmares of discontent. These are insights which deserve to be savored.
Religion and Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
Author: Kasper von Greyerz
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195327659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. This text presents Kaspar von Greyerz's important overview and interpretation of the religions and cultures of Early Modern Europe.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195327659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the pre-industrial societies of early modern Europe, religion was a vessel of fundamental importance in making sense of personal and collective social, cultural and spiritual exercises. This text presents Kaspar von Greyerz's important overview and interpretation of the religions and cultures of Early Modern Europe.