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We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,228
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (Paperback, New): Lawrence Grossberg

We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (Paperback, New)

Lawrence Grossberg

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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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 1992
First published: 1992
Authors: Lawrence Grossberg
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90330-1
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > General
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LSN: 0-415-90330-0
Barcode: 9780415903301

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