This collection of insightful essays by outstanding artists, anthropologists, historians, classicists and humanists was developed to broaden the study of popular culture and to provide instances of original and innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
Its first purpose is to broaden the study of popular culture which is too often regarded in the academic world as the entertainment and leisure time activities of the 20th century. Second, the collection gives recognition to the fact that a number of disciplines have been investigating popular phenomena on different fronts, and it is designed to bring examples of these disciplines together under the common rubric of "popular culture." Related to this is a third purpose of providing instances of original and innovative interdisciplinary approaches. Last, the collection should be a worthwhile contribution to the component disciplines as well as to the study of popular culture.
- ISBN13 9780879721473
- Publish Date 31 January 1980
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
- Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,US
- Edition illustrated Edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 325
- Language English