High Culture, Popular Culture : The Long Debate Book

	Series editor's foreword
	Preface
	Introduction: from high culture to beer culture
	Culture and cultures
	Sacred sites and unvisited graves
	Coincidence of opposites: overview of the book
	A renovated 'English'
1	'A pursuit of our total perfection': theories of culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	1
	The emergence of the debate about high culture and popular culture	1
	Aesthetics, art and culture	3
	Industrialism and the division of culture	6
	Victorian views of 'culture'	16
	Culture for the many or for the few?	20
2	Twentieth-century theories of high culture and mass culture	22
	The era of mass society and the decay of culture	22
	British writing about culture in the 1920s and 1930s	29
	The critique of mass culture from both political right and left	34
	Modernist definitions of high art, literariness, and the 'classic'	41
	The status of the text as a function of social process	46
	Modernist accommodations to the technology of mass culture	49
	Status and stratification in the analysis of culture	54
3	Postmodernism and cultural populism	57
	From modern to postmodern in accounts of mass culture	57
	Art, culture and consumerism	59
	Postmodernism as 'double-coding'	65
	Populism	66
	Sociologies of 'everyday life' and the search for a counter-aesthetic	70
	Cultural populism and its critics	76
4	Elitism and populism in the construction of Australian cultural identity	79
	The Great Dividing Range	79
	The achievements of colonial culture	80
	'Currency' cultural values	84
	The populist myth of the bushman	88
	Criticism of populist myths of national identity	93
	Australian culture, 1930-50	97
	The 'great Australian stupor'	102
	Whitlam and after	105
5	Quality and popularity in the Australian media	114
	The development of the mass media	114
	The early history of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation	120
	The low cultural status of television	125
	The construction of the 'arts' on radio and television	130
	Australian television drama	133
	The possibilities for 'art' television	138
	The mass media and high culture	145
6	'Zones of Contestation': English and Cultural Studies	147
	Oppositional discourses	147
	The parallel histories of English and Cultural Studies	152
	Differences between English and Cultural Studies	161
	Moving beyond the high-popular conflict	169
	Endnotes	175
	Bibliography	179
	Index	191