Popular Cultures: Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure

by David Rowe

Focusing on two major forms of popular culture - rock music and sport - David Rowe outlines the key issues involved in the understanding the diverse aspects of popular culture. Rock music and sport encapsulate the contradictory elements of popular culture: the tensions between the commercial manufacture and marketing of popular products on the one hand, and their potential for articulating a resistive independence on the other. David Rowe demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803977018
• ISBN13: 9780803977013
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"