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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: A Definition of Urban Culture -- Theories of the City -- Modern Adaptation of the Chicago School -- Urban Conflict Theory in the Modern Age -- Urban Culturalist Theory as a Modern Application -- Roots of Culture -- The Development of Urban Culture -- Chapter Two: The Urban Environment -- Housing in the Urban Landscape -- Race and Class -- Business and Jobs in the Urban Landscape -- Culture Production -- Chapter Three: Evolution of Culture in the City -- Institutionalized Religion -- Hierarchy and Class -- Currency -- Cultural Artifacts That Denote Class and Conspicuous Consumption -- The Industrial Revolution and Urban Planning -- The Growth of the Suburbs -- Urban Pressure and the Debate on Welfare -- Chapter Four: Music in the City -- The First Organized Music Makers -- Producing Musical Culture -- The Sociology of Musicianship -- Music Consumption -- Race and Class in Urban Music Production -- Music as a Cultural Artifact -- Urban Music Consumption -- Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville-The Triumvirate -- Style, Sound, and Cities -- Chapter Five: Art and Sculpture -- Ancient Greece -- The Roman Empire -- The Renaissance and Culture -- The Benefits of Urban Culture Production -- Urban Painting -- Theater and Literature -- Chapter Six: Architecture and Fashion -- Ancient Urban Architecture -- Modern Urban Architecture -- Housing Discrimination-Race and Class -- Seeking Solutions: Paris, France -- St. Louis, Missouri -- and Baltimore, Maryland -- Cities Built to Suit -- Fashion -- Public Health as an Impetus for Urban Culture Production -- Production of Urban Culture through Fashion -- Chapter Seven: Photography, Film, and Television -- How Photographs Built a City -- Tinsel Town -- Live Television to Studio City.

"This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more generally. Thus, many of the essays included take fresh perspectives on Black American culture, feminism, multiculturalism, and queer studies, among others, but they also provide critical updates on the global impact of U.S. American popular culture. 0If an understanding of U.S. Culture as Popular Culture in its national and international dimensions is one of the aims behind this publication, another is to conceive of cultural formations against the backdrop of shifting media environments. Placed alongside more traditional media such as literature and film, more recent phenomena including reality television, internet memes, and video games add considerable relevance to the critical appreciation of culture in the twenty-first century."

Au-delà des effets de mode ou de conjoncture, qu'est-ce qui se cache sous le regain d'intérêt pour l'entreprise — y compris chez les sociologues du travail ? Comment comprendre le recours, aujourd'hui fréquent, à la notion séduisante mais controversée de culture d'entreprise pour rendre compte de la réflexion ? C'est par une analyse monographique centrée sur le cas d'une PME de province que l'auteur s'attaque à ces questions. On nous décrit une situation où identité ouvrière — que symbolise ici la figure du croquant, simple travailleur, méprisé, exploité mais façonneur d'histoire — et culture d'entreprise, loin de s'opposer, tendent à se rejoindre. Mais ce processus d'identification à la norme n'exclut pas le conflit. La singularité, mais aussi l'intérêt de l'exemple choisi tiennent au fait qu'on y retrouve, exacerbées à l'extrême, les bases de l'intégration industrielle, telles que décrites par Marx et Durkheim : cette tension contradictoire entre coopération et conflit.

Abstract: This literature study researched Adbusters, the anti-commercial organization, and described the organization's activities and media usage, mainly in the period of 2007-2010, which critized the populer culture. Adbusters is an organization which performs "Culture Jammingâ€; a rebellious act reacting towards commercialism domination in many aspects including popular culture. Compared to other similar organizations, Adbusters has been executing more various activisms using several media which other organizations do not use. This study used the Adbusters' official website and blogs as main data sources. The data of Adbusters' activities and media usage were categorized and analyzed, thus the tendency of its development can be described. This study also analyzed Adbusters' activity using Media Hegemony Theory and Political Economy Media Theory. The media has been dominated by a certain group that owns politic and economic power, so the information flow has been dominated by them. Media and its contents have been commercialized, thus capitalism and commercialism have been considered as a common system that should run the world. Adbusters has been trying to stop the domination and change the society's way of thinking into a more critical way of thinking. Abstrak: Studi literatur ini meneliti tentang Adbusters, sebuah organisasi anti komersial, dengan mendeskripsikan aktivitas serta penggunaan media organisasi tersebut dari tahun 2007-2010 dalam mengkritisi budaya populer. Adbusters adalah organisasi yang melakukan Culture Jamming, aksi perlawanan terhadap dominasi komersialisme di segala aspek termasuk popular culture. Dibandingkan dengan organisasi lain yang serupa, aktivitas Adbusters lebih bervariasi dan menggunakan media-media yang tidak biasa digunakan organisasi lain. Penelitian ini menggunakan situs online resmi Adbusters sebagai sumber data utama. Data mengenai aktivitas dan penggunaan media Adbusters dikategorisasi dan dianalisis sehingga kecenderungan perkembangan organisasi ini dapat dideskripsikan. Penelitian ini juga menganalisis kegiatan Adbusters menggunakan Teori Hegemoni Media dan Teori Media Ekonomi Politik. Media telah didominasi oleh kelompok tertentu yang memiliki kekuasaan ekonomi serta politik, sehingga alur informasi juga didominasi kelompok tersebut. Media dan kontennya telah menjadi produk komersial, sehingga kapitalisme dan komersialisme itu sendiri dianggap sebagai sistem yang memang sudah seharusnya dijalankan di dunia. Adbusters berusaha menghentikan dominasi tersebut dan mengubah cara pikir masyarakat menjadi lebih kritis.

Culture as Text, Text as Culture represents a novel, interdisciplinary analysis of textuality as it pertains to Cultural Studies. More specifically, the work examines how the analysis of texts has shaped the most vital contemporary debate of Cultural Studies: the recognition that all texts and their contexts are constructs. Building upon a Post-structural/Post-modern understanding of truth as a construct, Cultural Studies has long since acknowledged the ability of texts to express the time and culture of their origin. This work, however, expands this idea, demonstrating not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history. This compendium is structured around four of the most prominent contemporary topics of Cultural Studies: the relationship between historical and fictional writing, the ability of authors to recreate or redefine history, the relationship between language and image, and the ability for traditionally marginalized groups to reassert their place in history. The book presents articles from a large spectrum of disciplinary fields and civilizations in order to demonstrate how the application of Cultural Studies can unite seemingly disparate disciplines.