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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; What is Unpopular Culture?; Martin Lüthe & Sascha Pöhlmann; Why We Talk the Talk We Talk; On the Emptiness of Terms, the Processual Un/Popular, and Benefits of Distinction-Some Auto-Ethnographical Remarks; Martin Butler; Big Fish; On the Relative Popularity of Zane Grey and Ernest Hemingway1; Dominika Ferens; How (Not) to Make People Like You; The Anti-Popular Art of David Foster Wallace; James Dorson; Dissenting Commodities; Negotiations of (Un)popularity in Publications Critical of Post-9/11 U.S.-America; Elizabeth Kovach.
Deafheaven's Sunbather and the Evolution of an (Un)popular GenrePaola Ferrero; Unpopular Culture and the American Reception of Tinariwen; Barry Shank; Cultural Studies and the Un/Popular; How the Ass-Kicking Work of Steven Seagal May Wrist-Break Our Paradigms of Culture; Dietmar Meinel; Unpopular Sport Teams and the Social Psychology of 'Anti-Fans'; Karsten Senkbeil; Popular, Unpopular; When First World War Museums Meet Facebook; Catherine Bouko; Unpopular American Natural Calamities and the Selectivity of Disaster Memory; Susanne Leikam; The Unpopular Profession?
Graduate Studies in the Humanities and the Genre of the 'Thesis Hatement'Sebastian M. Herrmann; Contributors; Index.
Secrets, Lies and The Real HousewivesThe Death of an (Un)Popular Genre; Dan Udy; Karaoke Americanism Gangnam Style; K-pop, Wonder Girls, and the Asian Unpopular; Jeroen de Kloet and Jaap Kooijman; 'When order is lost, time spits'; The Abject Unpopular Art of Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge; Florian Zappe; 'Famous in a Small Town'; The Authenticity of Unpopularity in Contemporary Country Music1; Christian Schmidt; Making Christianity Cool; Christian Pop Music's Quest for Popularity; Bärbel Harju; Listening to Bad Music; White Power and (Un)Popular Culture; C. Richard King; Hipster Black Metal?
This collection includes eighteen essays that introduce the concept of unpopular culture and explore its critical possibilities and ramifications from a large variety of perspectives. Proposing a third term that operates beyond the dichotomy of high culture and mass culture and yet offers a fresh approach to both, these essays address a multitude of different topics that can all be classified as unpopular culture. From David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to Zane Grey and fan fiction, from Christian Rock and Country to Black Metal, from Steven Seagal to Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge, from The Simpsons to The Real Housewives, from natural disasters to 9/11, from thesis hatements to professional sports, these essays find the unpopular across media and genres, and they analyze the politics and the aesthetics of an unpopular culture (and the unpopular in culture) that has not been duly recognized as such by the theories and methods of cultural studies
This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture. From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and The Simpsons, from natural disasters to 9/11 and beyond, the essays find the unpopular across media and genres, analysing the politics and aesthetics of a side to culture that has been overlooked by previous theories and methods in cultural studies