Product Overview
"Popular Culture" is a serious concern for academicians for quite a long time. We may legitimately identify certain aspect of culture in past eras as "popular" but the popular in the truest sense can be said to exist only with the context of contemporary industrial society. This link between modernity and popular derives from the vast economic, social and technological transformations that took place in the hundred years between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries. This book sets out to endow with more clarity to our understanding of aims and methods in the study of popular culture and provide inspiration for many to start analysing the phenomena that surround us in our daily way of life. It covers varied dimensions of popular culture beginning with politics and covering aspects of popular science, caste and also popular sports. This book will quench the thirst of general readers as well as academic who want to have a taste of popular culture in Bengal.
Product Overview
"Popular Culture" is a serious concern for academicians for quite a long time. We may legitimately identify certain aspect of culture in past eras as "popular" but the popular in the truest sense can be said to exist only with the context of contemporary industrial society. This link between modernity and popular derives from the vast economic, social and technological transformations that took place in the hundred years between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries. This book sets out to endow with more clarity to our understanding of aims and methods in the study of popular culture and provide inspiration for many to start analysing the phenomena that surround us in our daily way of life. It covers varied dimensions of popular culture beginning with politics and covering aspects of popular science, caste and also popular sports. This book will quench the thirst of general readers as well as academic who want to have a taste of popular culture in Bengal.
Product Specification
- Genre
- Non- Fiction
- Editor
- Amitava Chatterjee
- ISBN
- 978-93-80677-34-7
- Pages
- 204
- Published
- 2012
About the Editor
Amitava Chatterjee is Head and Professor of History at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal. He has teaching experience of over 15 years in UG and PG level. His areas of interest are sports history and cultural studies, and his research thrust is the evolution of sporting culture in Colonial Bengal. He was in charge of Controller of Examinations (Additional Charge) at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol from August’2016 to October'2017. He has edited few books viz. Itihase JanaSanskriti: Porishare Unish Bish Shatak, Gender & Modernity, People at Large: Popular Culture in Modern Bengal and People at Play: Sport, Culture and Nationalism and written extensively in reputed journals of India and abroad.
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