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Studies in culture and communication

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction Popular culture, popular knowledge; Part One the Obscured Metropolis; 1 Urban times ... ; View from a train; Urban shock; Whistles, horns, sirens and clocks; Suburbia; Taming the wilderness; The English home and heritage; Notes; 2 ... and urban pastimes; Cultures of pleasure; Consuming change; War, invasion and irruption; Notes; 3 Inside the present; Buildings and food; Old tastes, new tastes: signs of social life; Riots, rights and remaking; Notes.

American libertiesNotes; 8 Other sounds, other worlds; Another America; In the restless night: black America; Reaction, revival, and renewal: 'folk' musics; Notes; 9 Sounds of youth; 'Putting on the style'; 'Don't knock the rock'; Blues, beat and British; Counter-culture; On the radio; Moving on up: black musics and into the '80s; Out of chaos; Between the grooves; Notes; Suggestions for further work; Part Four Conclusions; 10 In these times; The montage of the present; From culture to collage; Metropolis now!; 11 Theoretical exposures: framing culture; Native encounters.

Structures, mythologies and sign sexist ... in and through each of us; Inside the signs: meaning goes mobile; The 'dense and concrete' life; A final note: is this the end?; Notes; Suggestions for further work; Further materials; Videos; Records; Film and television; Books and magazines; References; Index.

Suggestions for further workPart Two the Sights; 4 A world of images; The mechanical eye and the dream palace; Notes; 5 National views; Ideology in the dark; The rise of Hollywood; Representing Britain; Notes; 6 Other visions, screens and pleasures; 'deadly but sexy, exciting and strong'; The filched kiss; A fate worse than death; Future dread: it came from ... ; Home humours; The everyday screen; ... inside the machine; Notes; Suggestions for further work; Part Three the Sounds; 7 From music hall to Hitsville; September 1984; On the boards; The coming of the record; Tin Pan Alley.

City and town life > Great Britain.

Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 20th century.