Title:
Cultural resistance reader
Author:
Duncombe, Stephen.
ISBN:
9781859843796
9781859846599
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Verso, 2002.
Physical Description:
xi, 447 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction ---- ONE: CULTURAL RESISTANCE. Christopher Hill, "Levellers and True Levellers," from The World Turned Upside Down ---- TWO: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE. Raymond Williams, "Culture," from Keywords --- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology --- Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy --- Antonio Gramsci, from The Prison Notebooks --- Walter Benjamin, "The Author as Producer" ---- THREE: A POLITICS THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE POLITICS. Mikhail Bakhtin, from Rabelais and His World --- James C. Scott, from Weapons of the Weak --- Robin D.G. Kelley, from Race Rebels --- Adolph Reed Jr., "Why Is There No Black Political Movement" --- Jean Baudrillard, "The Masses: The Implosion of the Social Media" --- Hakim Bey, from TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone --- Simon Reynolds, from Generation Ecstasy --- "Huge Mob Tortures Negro," account of a lynching in 1920 ---- FOUR: SUBCULTURES AND PRIMITIVE REBELS. E.J. Hobsbawm, from Primitive Rebels --- Robin D.G. Kelley, "OGs in Postindustiral Los Angeles," from Race Rebels --- Stuart Cosgrove, 'The Zoot-suit and Style Warfare" --- Dick Hebdige, "The Meaning of Mod" --- John Clarke, "The Skinheads and the Magical Recovery of Community" --- Riot Grrrl, "The Riot Grrrl Is ..." --- Kathleen Hanna, interview in Punk Planet --- Bertold Brecht, "Emphasis on Sport" --- Stuart Hall, "Notes on Deconstructing 'the Popular'" ---- FIVE: DISMANTLING THE MASTER'S HOUSE. Elaine Goodale Eastman "The Ghost Dance War," from Sister to the Sioux --- Mahatma Gandhi, from Hind Swaraj --- C.L.R. James, from Beyond a Boundary --- Lawrence Levine, "Slave Songs and Slave Consciousness" --- George Lipsitz, "Immigration and Assimilation: Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin," from Dangerous Crossroads ----SIX: A WOMAN'S PLACE. Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One's Own --- Radicalesbians, "The Woman-Identified Woman" --- Jean Railla, A Broom of One's Own, from Bust --- Janice A. Radway, from Reading the Romance --- John Fiske, "Shopping for Pleasure" from Reading the Popular ---- SEVEN: COMMODITIES, COOPERATION, AND CULTURE JAMMING. Theordor Adorno, "On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening" --- Richard Hoggart, from The Uses of Literacy --- Malcolm Cowley, from Exile's Return --- Thomas Frank, "Why Johnny Can't Dissent" --- Abbie Hoffman, from Revolution for the Hell of It --- Jerry Rubin, from Do It! ---- EIGHT: MIXING POP AND POLITICS. Barbara Epstein, "The Politics of Prefigurative Community" --- John Jordan, "The Art of Necessity: The Subversive Imagination of Anti-road Protest and Reclaim the Streets" --- Jason Grote, "The God that People Who Do Not Believe in God Believe In: Taking a Bust with Reverend Billy" --- Andrew Boyd, "Truth Is A Virus; Meme Warfare and the Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)" --- Ricardo Dominguez, 'Electronic Disturbance: An Interview."
Abstract:
"From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon. This expansive and carefully crafted reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance. With illuminating introductions throughout, it presents a range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary debate, providing tools for the reader's own interventions. In these pages can be found the work of Karl Marx, Matthew Arnold, Antonio Gramsci, C.L.R. James, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Virginia Woolf, Mikhail Bakhtin, Stuart Hall, Christopher Hill, Janice Radway, Eric Hobsbawm, Abbie Hoffman, Mahatma Gandhi, Dick Hebdige, Hakim Bey, Raymond Williams, Robin Kelley, Tom Frank and more than a dozen others, including a number of new activists/authors published here for the first time."--Back cover.
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