Research Catalog

Title

The myth of popular culture from Dante to Dylan / Perry Meisel.

Author

Meisel, Perry

Publication

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Description

xv, 206 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan is a fascinating examination of the cultural traditions of the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music which leads us to redefine our concept of the division between "high" and "low" culture.: A stimulating history of high and low culture from Dante Alighieri to Bob Dylan, providing a controversial defence of popular culture; Seeks to rebut the durable belief that only high culture is 'dialectical' and popular culture is not by turning Theodor Adorno's theories on 'pop' against themselves; Presents a cri.

Series Statement

Blackwell manifestos

Uniform Title

Blackwell manifestos.

Subject

• Popular culture
• Arts, Modern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Myth of Popular Culture; Contents; Preface: The Resistance to Pop; Acknowledgments; Part I "The Battle of the Brows"; 1 A History of High and Low; 2 Pop Culture in the Spectator; 3 Pop and Postmodernism; Part II Dialectics of Pop; 4 The Death of Kings: American Fiction from Cooper to Chandler; 5 Knock on Any Door: Three Histories of Hollywood; 6 The Blues Misreading of Gospel: A History of Rock and Roll; Part III The World of Bob Dylan; 7 Dylan and the Critics; 8 Words and Music; 9 Dylan Himself; 10 The Three Icons: Sinatra, Presley, Dylan; Works Cited; Index.

ISBN

• 9781405199339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405199334 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9781405199346 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1405199342 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009020181

OCLC

• 344037032
• SCSB-11929923

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library