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Profane Culture : Updated Edition / Paul E Willis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Updated edition with a New PrefaceDescription: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691163697
  • 9781400865147
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5680942 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ799.G72 E58 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Moments. Preface to the 2014 Edition -- 1. Introduction: Profanity and Creativity -- Part One -- 2. The Motor-bike Boys -- 3. The Motor-bike -- 4. The Golden Age -- Part Two -- 5. The Hippies -- 6. The Experience of Drugs -- 7. The Creative Age -- 8. Conclusions Cultural Politics -- Epilogue -- Theoretical Appendix -- Notes -- Index
Summary: A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both groups were involved in an unequal but heroic fight to produce meaning and their own cultural forms in the face of a larger society dominated by the capitalist media and commercialism. They were pioneers of cultural experimentation, the self-construction of identity, and the curating of the self, which, in different ways, have become so widespread today.In Profane Culture, Paul Willis develops an important and still very contemporary theory and methodology for understanding the constructions of lived and popular culture. His new preface discusses the ties between the cultural moment explored in the book and today.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Moments. Preface to the 2014 Edition -- 1. Introduction: Profanity and Creativity -- Part One -- 2. The Motor-bike Boys -- 3. The Motor-bike -- 4. The Golden Age -- Part Two -- 5. The Hippies -- 6. The Experience of Drugs -- 7. The Creative Age -- 8. Conclusions Cultural Politics -- Epilogue -- Theoretical Appendix -- Notes -- Index

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A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both groups were involved in an unequal but heroic fight to produce meaning and their own cultural forms in the face of a larger society dominated by the capitalist media and commercialism. They were pioneers of cultural experimentation, the self-construction of identity, and the curating of the self, which, in different ways, have become so widespread today.In Profane Culture, Paul Willis develops an important and still very contemporary theory and methodology for understanding the constructions of lived and popular culture. His new preface discusses the ties between the cultural moment explored in the book and today.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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