- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (7 Sep 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415900379
- ISBN-13: 978-0415900379
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 803,182 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America. He argues that the making of "taste" is hardly an aesthetic activity, but rather an exercise in cultural power, policing and carefully redefining social relations between classes.
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A modern Bible for the Popular Culture
9 Jan 2010
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Andrew Ross has done a terrific job here, with this in depth fascinating study of the parameters of Popular Culture that touches on so many subjects it is impossible to describe. Here you will find all kinds of explorations that have to do with Jazz, Poetry, Painting, Politics and Rock n' Roll all interconnected by the searing intelligence of Ross, who is able to connect so many disparate subjects and draw valid and penetrating conclusions that will help anyone draw some valid conclusions about the influence of Popular Culture on Highbrow Culture and vice versa in our confusing modern times. Very helpful for anyone interested in Art and Sociology.
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A great read.
19 Dec 2011
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This book was an informative and entertaining look at the history of intellectuals in the United States as seen through the eye of popular culture.
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