Popular Culture

Cavespace to Cyberspace

Frank Hoffmann, Marshall Fishwick, B Lee Cooper (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

334 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-1114-5 (ISBN)

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Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present.

A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular Culture highlights important historical events such as the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions while examining world-changing social movements. You will go on a journey through time, exploring the cultures of the world, venturing from cavespace to tomb space, to temple space, then medieval space, to modern space and post-modern epochs, and finally to cyberspace. While moving through cultural history, you will explore such stories and discoveries as:

the 1991 discovery of Oetzi the Ice Man, who is 5,300 years old
the legends of the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Americans
who or what turned on the light to the Dark Ages
the impact of René Descartes: “I think, therefore I am,” and the inspiration of the Enlightenment
modernism and the determination to be up to date
the incredible 20th century that McDonaldized the world
postmodernism and its technology
cyburbia and globalism

Popular Culture contains a wide collection of stories covering cultural phenomena such as Tutmania, the Crusades, the Ninja Turtles, Hamburger University, elitism, Shakespeare, America's Frontier Thesis, The Global Village, and the coming millennium. You will be intrigued by the plethora of fascinating links that Professor Fishwick makes in this comprehensive guide to ever-changing popular culture.

Frank Hoffmann (Author) , Marshall Fishwick (Author) , B Lee Cooper (Author)

Contents Foreword

Preface
What Is Our Goal?
Part I: Forethoughts
Back to the Ice Age
Definitions
Popular-Common Culture
A Movable Feast
Perspectives
Words, Words, Words
The Prince of Pop
Anti-Pop
Fame and the Famous
The Mosaic As Metaphor
New Parameters
Part II: Time and Space
Time
Hurry-Up Time
In the Beginning
Cavespace
Tombspace
Templespace
Forumspace
Medieval
F.D.R.
Elvis the Incredible
Twisting
Music
Postmodern
Some Postmodern Questions
Cyberspace
The Return of the Luddites
Gardenspace to Cyberspace
Part III: Themes
People
Lore
Fakelore
Poplore
Springlore
Icons
Golden Bangladesh
Global Village
Part IV: Links
East and West
Everyman to Everyfan
Ray and Ronald
Part V: Afterthoughts
The Iceman Cometh--Again
We Are Out--and Yet . . .
Monoculture
Fling Wide the Gates!
The Pop Heard Round the World
Some Final Thoughts
Notes
Further Reading
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.1.2001
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7890-1114-X / 078901114X
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-1114-5 / 9780789011145
Zustand	Neuware