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We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (Paperback, New)
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (Paperback, New)
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Consider this paradox - for many people, rock is dead, crushed by
the weight of its own success and popularity, little more than a
voice of mainstream commercial entertainment. But for many others,
especially among the new conservative Right, rock poses a greater
threat now than ever before. What is it about rock that makes it so
important in contemporary political struggles?;Bringing together
cultural, political and economic analyses, Lawrence Grossberg
offers an interpretation of the contemporary politics of both rock
and popular culture. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" explores four
histories: the changing role of rock in everyday life; the
emergence of an affective and popular conservatism; the crisis of
contemporary capitalism; and the apparent inability of the Left to
respond to these changes. These critical developments are bound
together by their concern with postmodernity, understood as both a
structure of everyday life and as a sensibility of popular culture.
Everyone wants to get out of this place, but only the Right seems
to have found a way to benefit from where we are. Bringing together
cultural, political and economic analyses, Grossberg offers an
interpretation of
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