Popular Culture Production and Consumption

by Harrington, Lee; Bielby, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780631217107
• ISBN10: 063121710X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is a rich collection of essays highlighting the complex relationship between cultural production and consumption using examples from music, television, magazines, sports, and advertising. Classic, contemporary, and newly commissioned articles examine the key themes and debates on popular culture by key scholars. Using a multitude of perspectives the book explores how culture is commodified and turned into profit, including a study of contemporary celebrity and fandom. In addition, issues of social and cultural diversity are addressed in readings that are accessible and provocative for both students and academics.

Author Biography

C. Lee Harrington is Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliate of the Women's Studies program at Miami University of Ohio. Her articles have been published in several scholarly journals and she is the author, with Denise Bielby, of Soap Fans: Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life (1995). Her current research interests include media audiences and death penalty cause lawyering.

Denise D. Bielby is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the culture industries of television and film. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in journals including Journal of Popular Culture, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	x
Constructing the Popular: Cultural Production and Consumption	1	(16)
C. Lee Harrington
Denise D. Bielby
Part I What is Popular?	17	(48)
Making Artistic Popular Music: The Goal of True Folk	19	(5)
John Blacking
Batman, Deviance, and Camp	24	(12)
Andy Medhurst
Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Tranformation of Production-Consumption Relations in Professional Team Sport	36	(17)
Kimberly S. Schimmel
Art Appreciation at Caesars Palace	53	(12)
Mel McCombie
Part II Cultural Production/Commodification	65	(56)
Art as Collective Action	67	(13)
Howard S. Becker
Commodity Lesbianism	80	(14)
Danae Clark
Alternative to What?	94	(12)
Tom Frank
Imagineering the Inner City? Landscapes of Pleasure and the Commodification of Cultural Spectacle in the Postmodern City	106	(15)
Scott Salmon
Part III Taste, Reception, and Resistance	121	(80)
Encoding/Decoding	123	(10)
Stuart Hall
(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler	133	(21)
Laura Kipnis
``Hang Up My Rock and Roll Shoes'': The Cultural Production of Rock and Roll	154	(11)
Harris Friedberg
Site Reading?: Globalization, Identity, and the Consumption of Place in Popular Music	165	(15)
Minelle Mahtani
Scott Salmon
Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-colonial Politics of Sound	180	(21)
George Lipsitz
Part IV Authoring Texts/Readers Reading	201	(56)
The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature	203	(7)
John G. Cawelti
The Task of the Translator: An Introduction to the Translation of Baudelaire's Tableaux Parisiens	210	(9)
Walter Benjamin
Intertextuality	219	(15)
John Fiske
On Reading Soaps: A Semiotic Primer	234	(9)
Robert C. Allen
``Don't Have to DJ No More'': Sampling and the ``Autonomous'' Creator	243	(14)
David Sanjek
Part V Celebrity and Fandom	257	(71)
The Assembly Line of Greatness: Celebrity in Twentieth-Century America	259	(24)
Joshua Gamson
Mountains of Contradictions: Gender, Class, and Region in the Star Image of Dolly Parton	283	(18)
Pamela Wilson
Fandom as Pathology: The Consequences of Characterization	301	(14)
Joli Jensen
Scottish Fans, not English Hooligans! Scots, Scottishness, and Scottish Football	315	(13)
Gerry P. T. Finn
Richard Giulianotti
Index	328