Inventing popular culture Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Popular Culture as Folk Culture	1
	Nature and Nationalism	2
	Pastoral Life as Primitive Culture	6
	Music Hall and the Masses	10
	Imagining the Past to Make the Present	13
2	Popular Culture as Mass Culture	16
	Culture Against Anarchy	16
	The Culture of Hyperdemocracy	24
	The Marxist Masses	27
	Ways of Seeing Other People as Masses	30
3	Popular Culture as the "Other" of High Culture	32
	The Making of High Culture	32
	The Modernist Revolution	41
	The Politics of Cultural Exclusion	43
	Culture and Class	45
4	Popular Culture as an Arena of Hegemony	48
	Hegemony: From Marxism to Cultural Studies	48
	Wandering from the Path of Righteousness	53
	Side Saddle on the Golden Calf	56
	An Inclusive Cultural Studies	61
5	Popular Culture as Postmodern Culture	63
	The New Sensibility	63
	Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: The Postmodern Condition	64
	Postmodern Hyperconsciousness	70
	Back to the Future: Opera Postmodern?	74
6	Popular Culture as the "Roots" and "Routes" of Cultural Identities	78
	Postmodern Identities	79
	The Roots of Cultural Identities	81
	The Routes of Cultural Identities	86
	Mixing Memory and Desire: Dusty Springfield and "The Land of Love"	89
	Coda: Performing Identities	91
7	Popular Culture as Popular or Mass Art	92
	Cultural Power	92
	When Gravity Fails: An Aesthetics of Popular Culture?	95
	Beyond Aesthetic Essentialism	104
8	Popular Culture as Global Culture	107
	Globalization	107
	Trading Commodities for Culture in the American Global Village	109
	The "Local" as the New Folk Culture	116
	Notes	121
	References	130
	Index	140