- Hardcover: 202 pages
- Publisher: Ashgate (10 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0754643964
- ISBN-13: 978-0754643968
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,523,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the "post-youth" generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in which popular culture offers a vehicle for memory, providing the building blocks of identity - the politics and passion of life captured in an unforgettable song, an amazing nightclub, or an unexpected goal in extra time. For a fan, the joy and exhilaration is enough, but it is the task of cultural studies to understand why particular cultural forms survive the passage of time and space. Brabazon argues, with Lawrence Grossberg, that Cultural Studies is "the Generation X of the academic world". She tracks its journey away from Marxism and subcultural theory and looks at its future. In particular she explores the possibilities of popular memory studies in reclaiming and repairing the discipline of Cultural Studies - making it as relevant and as revelatory as in its revolutionary past.
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Tara Brabazon is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University, Western Australia. She is the author of five books on cultural studies, including 'Digital Hemlock: Internet Education and the Poisoning of Teaching' (2002) and 'Playing on the Periphery: Sport, Identity and Memory' (2004). She has published over fifty refereed articles and book chapters. In 1998 Brabazon won the Australian National Teaching Award for the Humanities and she has been twice short-listed for Western Australian Citizen of the Year.
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