Unpopular Culture

Martin Luthe; Sascha Pohlmann

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2016

Unpopular Culture

Martin Luthe and Sascha Pohlmann

In the series Televisual culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048528707

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About this book

This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture.

Author / Editor information

Luthe Martin :

Prof. Dr. Martin Lüthe is an associate professor in North American Cultural Studies at the John-F.Kennedy Institute at Freie University Berlin.Pohlmann Sascha :

Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann is an associate professor in American Literary History at Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction What is Unpopular Culture? Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann Open Access Download PDF	7
Why We Talk the Talk We Talk On the Emptiness of Terms, the Processual Un/Popular, and Benefits of Distinction—Some Auto-Ethnographical Remarks Martin Butler Open Access Download PDF	31
Big Fish On the Relative Popularity of Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway Dominika Ferens Open Access Download PDF	41
How (Not) to Make People Like You The Anti-Popular Art of David Foster Wallace James Dorson Open Access Download PDF	61
Dissenting Commodities Negotiations of (Un)popularity in Publications Critical of Post-9/11 U.S.-America Elizabeth Kovach Open Access Download PDF	81
Secrets, Lies and The Real Housewives The Death of an (Un)Popular Genre Dan Udy Open Access Download PDF	95
Karaoke Americanism Gangnam Style K-pop, Wonder Girls, and the Asian Unpopular Jeroen de Kloet and Jaap Kooijman Open Access Download PDF	113
‘When order is lost, time spits’ The Abject Unpopular Art of Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge Florian Zappe Open Access Download PDF	129
‘Famous in a Small Town’ The Authenticity of Unpopularity in Contemporary Country Music Christian Schmidt Open Access Download PDF	147
Making Christianity Cool Christian Pop Music’s Quest for Popularity Bärbel Harju Open Access Download PDF	169
Listening to Bad Music White Power and (Un)Popular Culture C. Richard King Open Access Download PDF	187
Hipster Black Metal? Deafheaven’s Sunbather and the Evolution of an (Un) popular Genre Paola Ferrero Open Access Download PDF	207
Unpopular Culture and the American Reception of Tinariwen Barry Shank Open Access Download PDF	229
Cultural Studies and the Un/Popular How the Ass-Kicking Work of Steven Seagal May Wrist- Break Our Paradigms of Culture Dietmar Meinel Open Access Download PDF	241
Unpopular Sport Teams and the Social Psychology of ‘Anti-Fans’ Karsten Senkbeil Open Access Download PDF	259
The Unpopular Profession? Graduate Studies in the Humanities and the Genre of the ‘Thesis Hatement’ Sebastian M. Herrmann Open Access Download PDF	313
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	331
Index Open Access Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 340
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Unpopular culture; popular culture; cultural studies

eBook

Published: September 1, 2016
ISBN: 9789048528707