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Huber reviews 'Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940' by Jane S. Becker.

Debate among intellectuals over the restructuring of the cultural sector.

"This title was first published in 2001. Questioning the authority of the discipline of international relations, in particular structural realism, to recognize the influence of varied social phenomena on possible outcomes, this book demonstrates how seemingly insignificant acts propagated through music, humour and poetry can disturb official culture and initiate social change. This thought-provoking work is compelling reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of both international relations and cultural studies alike."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Empire and Consumption -- 1. Requiem for the American Empire -- 2. The Imperial Cannibal -- 3. American Empire and Global Communication -- 4. Power, Hegemony, and Communication Theory -- 5. The Political Economy of Culture -- 6. Advertising and the Development of Consumer Society -- 7. Circumscribing Postmodern Culture -- Part II: Dimensions of Cultural Experience -- 8. In Living Color: Race and American Culture -- 9. Cultural Conundrums and Gender: America's Present Past -- 10. Working Class Culture in the Electronic Age -- 11. Nature in Industrial Society -- Part III: Themes in Popular Culture -- 12. Sexual Politics -- 13. Action-Adventure as Ideology -- 14. Vehicles for Myth: The Shifting Image of the Modern Car -- 15. Advertising as Religion: The Dialectic of Technology and Magic -- 16. The Importance of Shredding in Earnest: Reading the National Security Culture and Terrorism -- 17. Television and Democracy -- 18. MTV: Swinging on the (Postmodern) Star -- Part IV: The Logic of Contemporary Culture -- 19. The Decline of American Intellectuals -- 20. The Myth of the Information Society -- 21. Limits to the Imagination: Marketing and Children's Culture -- 22. The Privatization of Culture -- 23. Media Beyond Representation -- 24. Postmodernism: Roots and Politics -- Notes -- List of Contributors.