Popular Culture

Michael has published over a hundred articles and chapters in edited collections. These cover a number of areas including popular music, racism and popular culture, imperialism and theatrical history, Mass Observation, working-class writing, news and documentary, stereotyping and representation, humour and comedy, creativity and cultural production, media and memory, and historical hermeneutics. Overall his work covers the fields of media and communication studies, social and cultural history, and the sociology of art and culture. Michael has also written extensively on research methods, having edited collections on methods in cultural studies and memory studies, and been co-author of Researching Communications (Bloomsbury, 2007), along with David Deacon, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock. He has recently completed a major AHRC research project on music in the workplace, with Marek Korczynski of Nottingham University and Emma Robertson of La Trobe University. Their book, Rhythms of Labour: The History of Music at Work in Britain, is published by Cambridge University Press. With Emily Keightley, Michael is currently involved in a research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on media and memory. Their book The Mnemonic Imagination is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

VOLUME ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POPULAR CULTURE Popular Culture in History "Punch and Judy" and Cultural Appropriation - Scott Cutler Shershow The Legitimization of the Circus in Late Georgian England - Marius Kwint Queen Caroline and the Sexual Politics of Popular Culture in London, 1820 - Anna Clark The Decline of Saint Monday - Douglas Reid Bloods in the Street: London street culture, "industrial literacy", and the emergence of mass culture in Victorian England - Edward Jacobs Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870-1900: Notes on the remaking of a working class - Gareth Stedman Jones Empire Theatres and the Empire: The popular geographical imagination in the age of empire - Andrew Crowhurst Teddy's Bear and the Sociocultural Transfiguration of Savage Beasts into Innocent Children, 1890-1920 - Donna Varga History in Popular Culture Empathy and Enfranchisement: Popular histories - Jerome de Groot John Ford's Drums along the Mohawk: The making of an American myth - Edward Countryman Gender and Culture of Empire: Toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema - Ella Shohat A Fantasy of Witnessing - Gary Weissman The Ghost in the Luggage: Wallace and Braveheart: Post-colonial "pioneer" identities - Sally J. Morgan Archive Aesthetics and the Historical Imaginary: Wisconsin death trip - John Corner Romancing the Road: Road movies and images of mobility - Ron Eyerman and Orvar Loefgren VOLUME TWO: FROM MASS CULTURE CRITIQUE TO POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES Popular Culture - Early Considerations On a Possible Popular Culture - Thomas Wright What is Culture? - Derek Kahn Popular Culture and Mass Culture - Control and Consent A Theory of Mass Culture - Dwight Macdonald The Problem of High Culture and Mass Culture - D.W. Brogan Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections on the criticism of mass culture - Edward Shils The Literary Imagination and the Explanation of Socio-Cultural Change in Modern Britain - Paul Filmer Culture Industry Reconsidered - Theodor Adorno Hegemony and Mass Culture - Mark Gottdiener The Concept of Cultural Hegemony - T.J. Jackson Lears Beyond "Mass Culture" - Eugene Lunn Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine: A view from the 4.50 from Paddington - Angela Devas Popular Culture Studies - Outlines and Overviews Popular Culture: A "teaching object" - Tony Bennett Notes on Deconstructing "The Popular" - Stuart Hall What's in a Name? Popular culture theories and their limitations - Jean Franco What is Cultural Studies Anyway? - Richard Johnson Cultural Studies at the Crossroads - Graham Murdock Professing the Popular - Simon During Social Power and Symbolic Sites: In the tracks of cultural studies - Michael Pickering Cultural Studies and the Challenge to English - Michael Pickering New Life: Cultural studies and the problem of the "popular" - Scott Cutler Shershow Post-Feminism and Popular Culture - Angela McRobbie Creativity, Communication and Musical Experience - Keith Negus and Michael Pickering When the University Went "Pop": Exploring cultural studies, sociology of culture, and the rising interest in the study of popular culture - Lynn Schofield Clark VOLUME THREE: CULTURAL FORMATIONS AND SOCIAL RELATIONS Sociological Approaches Folk Culture and the Mass Media - Thelma McCormack Processing Fads and Fashions: An organizational-set analysis of cultural industry systems - Paul M. Hirsch Market Structure, the Creative Process, and Popular Culture: Toward an organizational reinterpretation of mass culture theory - Paul DiMaggio The Study of Culture: Cultural studies and British sociology compared - Steve Baron Biographical Boundaries: Sociology and Marilyn Monroe - Graham McCann Divide and Conquer: Popular culture and social control in late capitalism - David Tetzlaff Popular Culture and Social Collectivities Subcultural Conflict and Working Class Community - Phil Cohen Subcultures or Neo-Tribes? Rethinking the relationship between youth, style and musical taste - Andy Bennett Subcultures, Scenes or Tribes? None of the above - David Hesmondhalgh Everyday Fandom: Fan clubs, blogging, and the quotidian rhythms of the internet - Paul Theberge Popular Culture on a Global Scale: A challenge for cultural studies? - Simon During Towards a Global Culture? - Anthony D. Smith Popular Culture and Ethnic Encounters Playing with Real Feeling: Jazz and suburbia - Simon Frith What is this "Black" in Black Popular Culture? - Stuart Hall What is this "Black" in Irish Popular Culture? - Hazel Carby Consuming Passions: Spectacle, self-transformation, and the commodification of blackness in Japan - John G. Russell Kracauer and the Dancing Girls - James Donald Digital Whiteness, Primitive Blackness: Racializing the "digital divide" in film and new media - Janell Hobson Celebration or Pathology? Commodity or Art? The Dilemma of African-American expressive culture - Berndt Ostendorf VOLUME FOUR: POPULAR CULTURE - AESTHETICS, ETHICS, VALUES Popular Aesthetics and Cultural Populism Ways of Artmaking: The high and the popular in art - David Novitz The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and sentimentality in academia - Michael Schudson Pearls and Swine: The intellectuals and the mass media - Simon Frith and Jon Savage "It's a Thin Line between Love and Hate": Why cultural studies is so naff - Gary Hall Aesthetics, Policy and the Politics of Popular Culture - John Street Popular Taste and Cultural Value Literature, Television, and Cultural Values - Rosalind Coward "I'm Ashamed to Admit It but I Have Watched Dallas": The moral hierarchy of television programmes - Pertti Alasuutari What is Bad Music? - Simon Frith The Value of Value: Simon Frith and the aesthetics of the popular - Michael Pickering and Keith Negus With a reply by Simon Frith Old and New Ghosts: Public service television and the popular - Jerome Bourdon Social Ethics and Cultural Politics Is Nothing Sacred? The ethics of television - Michael Ignatieff Common Sense versus Political Discourse: Debating racism and multicultural society in Dutch talk shows - Andra Leurdijk Dear Shit-shovellers: Humour, censure and the discourse of complaint - Michael Pickering and Sharon Lockyer You Must Be Joking: The sociological critique of humour and comic media - Sharon Lockyer and Michael Pickering Headscarves and Porno-Chic: Disciplining girls' bodies in the European multicultural society - Linda Duits and Liesbet van Zoonen With commentary by Rosalind Gill and a rejoinder by Linda Duits and Liesbet van Zoonen Usha Zacharias and Jane Arthurs (2007) 'Transnational Cultural Politics and the Shilpa-Jade Episode'; Radha S. Hegde (2007) 'Of Race, Classy Victims and National Mythologies: Distracting Reality on Celebrity Big Brother'; Lieve Gies (2007) 'Pigs, Dogs, C Popular Culture and Democratic Contours The Cultural Public Sphere - Jim McGuigan Who's Afraid of Infotainment? - Kees Brants A Day at the Zoo: Political communication, pigs and popular culture - Liesbet van Zoonen "Prime Time Politics": Popular culture and politicians in the UK - John Street Hidden Debates: Rethinking the relationship between popular culture and the public sphere - Joke Hermes The Jerry Springer Show as an Emotional Public Sphere - Peter Lunt and Paul Stenner