Authors:Dr Paul du Gay, Professor Stuart Hall, Linda Janes, D
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: identities, culture, media, amp, vol, series, walkman, cultural, studies, story, sony, doing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-02
List price: $55.95
ISBN-10: 0761954023
ISBN-13: 9780761954026
In recent years `culture’ has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this `turn to culture’ through the medium of a particular case study: that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, the book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such a crucial part in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.The authors identify five major cultural processes - repr
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