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Constructing a Culture celebrates the inventiveness of those who have turned popular experience into cultural preoccupations, often against considerable official opposition. (Source: back cover)
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Dedication: In memory of Bill Bonney and Keith Willey
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Fitzroy,
Fitzroy - Collingwood area,
Melbourne - North,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:
Ringwood,
Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area,
Melbourne - East,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:McPhee Gribble
,Penguin
, 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- A Hard, Dry Humour for a Hard, Dry Land, single work criticism (p. 156-169)
- Mightier Than the Sword?, single work criticism (p. 190-208)
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Popular Culture and Bourgeois Values,
single work
criticism
(p. 241-258)John Docker's critique is premised on the opening statement: 'What is popular culture?' is a dazzingly difficult question. The provisional answer is that it is culture enjoyed by large masses of people. And, popular culture can only be understood in relation to the culture that opposes it - 'high culture'. (p, 241)
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- Also sound recording.
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