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In this book, Martin Conboy unpicks the complex and dynamic relationship between the popular press and popular culture. Rejecting approaches to popular culture which restrict themselves to the contemporary, Conboy argues for the importance of an historical perspective in understanding the contemporary relationship between the popular and the press. The Press and Popular Culture offers: A much-needed critical history of the popular press -from the Early Modern Period to the present day A comparative analysis of the emergence of the popular press in the US and Britain An approach to the role played by the popular press in the formation of popular culture which emphasizes the use of language
Popularizing the People
Popularizing the People
Raymond Williams expresses much of the complexity of the issues which intersect in defining ‘popular’ in his book Keywords. He avoids any simplistic celebration of the popular while at the same time refusing to be drawn into an elitist dismissal of the popular as trivial. His starting point is political and it is this insistence which enables him to maintain a perspective which keeps all the contradictory elements of the concept in play. He points out that the origins of the word denoted ‘belonging to the people’ but also carried implications of ‘base or low’. Its extension in the sense of being well liked, he argues, was firmly established by the nineteenth century. By this point, he claims:
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