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The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the complexities of
'popular' culture as a category of public policy. It approaches the
notions of 'cultural policy' and 'popular culture' flexibly,
examining what each comes to mean, explicitly or implicitly, in
relation to the other. This generates a rich variety of approaches,
but also a number of identifiable commonalities. We start from the
proposition that 'popular culture' is largely absent as an explicit
category of arts policy and debate today. The 'arts' are still, in
practice, construed in terms of elite culture (despite claims to
the contrary), while artefacts such as popular music, television,
fashion, and so on are assumed to figure among the cultural or
creative 'industries', giving the popular a set of narrowly
economic, professional and commodity connotations. And yet, the
popular is, in a range of ways, powerfully present as an implicit
dimension of public policy and as a catalyst of cultural practices
and attitudes. This apparent paradox underpins the proposal. The
book is a collaboration between two UK-based institutions: the
University of Leeds's Popular Cultures Research Network and the
well established Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the
University of Warwick. This book was originally published as a
special issue of International Journal of Cultural Policy.
This groundbreaking book is about what 'popular culture' means in
France, and how the term's shifting meanings have been negotiated
and contested. It represents the first theoretically informed study
of the way that popular culture is lived, imagined, fought over and
negotiated in modern and contemporary France. It covers a wide
range of overarching concerns: the roles of state policy, the
market, political ideologies, changing social contexts and new
technologies in the construction of the popular. But it also
provides a set of specific case studies showing how popular songs,
stories, films, TV programmes and language styles have become
indispensable elements of 'culture' in France. Deploying yet also
rethinking a 'Cultural Studies' approach to the popular, the book
therefore challenges dominant views of what French culture really
means today. -- .
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