From Revolution to Revelation - Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies (Paperback, New Ed)

From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the 'post-youth' generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in which popular culture offers a vehicle for memory, providing the building blocks of identity - the politics and passion of life captured in an unforgettable song, an amazing nightclub, or an unexpected goal in extra time. For a fan, the joy and exhilaration is enough, but it is the task of cultural studies to understand why particular cultural forms survive the passage of time and space. Brabazon argues, with Lawrence Grossberg, that Cultural Studies is 'the Generation X of the academic world'. She tracks its journey away from Marxism and subcultural theory and looks at its future. In particular she explores the possibilities of popular memory studies in reclaiming and repairing the discipline of Cultural Studies - making it as relevant and as revelatory as in its revolutionary past.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Tara Brabazon
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	202
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-4397-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	0-7546-4397-2
Barcode:	9780754643975

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