MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
A pioneer of cultural studies, Hall showed a generation how to meld identity and Marxism.
By Jessica Loudis @ NewRepublic.com, Sept. 27
[....] Hall took a more expansive view of popular culture than the previous generations of British leftists, who tended to deride it as a monolithic means by which the working-classes were subjected to upper-class hegemony. He saw pop culture as a field of struggle, which held the potential to bring about positive change, rather than simply oppression. As his thinking evolved, he came to insist on a larger vision of politics, one that ventured beyond traditional actors and institutions into more subjective realms. Politics, he argued, was not simply a matter of elections: Politics was everywhere, present in everything from soccer games to soap operas. “The conditions of existence,” he once remarked in an interview are “cultural, political and economic”—in that order [....]
Comments
Dammit, I can't skim this in 17 secs - you want me to really read? And think? getting a bit pushy, mumble mumble mumble
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/02/2017 - 7:16am
Recent visits to The New Republic have surprised me with stuff just like you are complaining about, like in their good old pre-internet days. Hence, they are not a popular site.
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/02/2017 - 9:47am