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Popular Culture and Bourgeois Values single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Popular Culture and Bourgeois Values
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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)

Notes

  • Contains the extract of a theatrical sketch concerning a lecherous judge (Roy Rene, q.v.) trying the case of a man accused of robbing a very attractive woman (p. 258).

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    y separately published work icon Constructing a Culture : A People's History of Australia Since 1788 Verity Burgmann (editor), Jenny Lee (editor), Fitzroy Ringwood : McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1988 Z1401604 1988 anthology criticism Constructing a Culture celebrates the inventiveness of those who have turned popular experience into cultural preoccupations, often against considerable official opposition. (Source: back cover) Fitzroy Ringwood : McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1988 pg. 241-258
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