Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life - Softcover

Fedorak, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442601248 ISBN 13: 9781442601246

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2009

Synopsis

While usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of material, economic, and political culture. The author begins by defining popular culture, outlining criticisms, and examining the impact of globalization on pop culture. She then explores mass media and popular culture (soap operas, Egyptian melodramas, Afro-Cuban rap music, and virtual communities), artistic expression and popular culture (graffiti art and body art), and gatherings and popular culture (fast food in Japan, equality in sport, and wedding rituals).

About this title

About the Author:

Shirley A. Fedorak has taught at the University of Saskatchewan and the American College of Cairo. She is the author of a number of textbooks including Global Issues: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (2013), and Pop Culture: The Culture of Everyday Life (2009). She now lives in Penang, Malaysia where she continues to write.

Review:

A very useful introduction to anthropology and popular culture alike, casting the discipline in terms that respect its rich scholarly heritage without ignoring its power to plumb the details of contemporary popular culture.

(Paul Mullins, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)

This text is important for any introductory anthropology course, particularly in conveying to students the relevance of anthropology by engaging with the very aspects of popular culture that are significant in their everyday lives.

(Kristin L. Dowell, University of Oklahoma)

Suitable as a primary or supplementary introductory text, Pop Culture encourages students to think critically about the ways in which the seemingly mundane aspects of 'the everyday' are both culturally constructed and meaningful to the lived realities of diverse groups of people.

(Karen McGarry, York University)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1442601248
• ISBN 13: 9781442601246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176