`Culture' is one of the most frequently used terms in the French vocabulary. It sells not only books, newspapers and magazines but also consumer products and political parties. But what are the meanings of `culture populaire'? What have the French understood by it, and what is its history? Brian Rigby's lively and cogent study traces changing notions of popular culture in France, from 1936 - the year of the Popular Front - to the present day. Asking why `culture' has become such a fiercely contested term, Rigby considers the work of the major French theorists, including Barthes, Bourdieu and Baudrillard.
Author(s): Brian Rigby
Edition: 1
Year: 1991
Language: English
Pages: 240
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
From high culture to ordinary culture......Page 10
Popular culture and popular education: leisure, work and culture......Page 48
Culture and the working class and working-class culture......Page 77
Popular culture as barbaric culture: the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu......Page 105
Culture, the state and 1968......Page 140
Mass culture, pop culture and pluralism......Page 170
Notes......Page 207
Bibliography......Page 224
Index......Page 232
