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A study of modern history
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A study of modern history
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lOMoARcPSD|1485157Week 1 - Moral Panic, Youth Culture, Popular Music and
Social History. Dr Ros Watkiss
Youth Culture and Popular Music in Twentieth Century Britain (University of
Wolverhampton)
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Moral Panic, Youth Culture, Popular Music and Social History. Dr Ros Watkiss
Singleton
MH029/ r.watkiss@wlv.ac.
Cultural Studies in Britain
• F. R. Leavis (1895-1978): folk culture - mass culture
• Culture = moral and aesthetic value
• Writings formed inter-war critique of contemporary culture
• Relationship between cultural elitism and class
Britain in the 1950s
• Cultural studies advanced in line with research on working class
communities
• Expansion adult education and injection of working class tutors into
universities
• Affluence and 1950s
• Britain in transition: dilution of class and growth of mass consumption
Richard Hoggart (1918- 2014)
• Working class background in Leeds - into university sector
• The Uses of Literacy (1957) part autobiography
• Earlier working class culture (allotments, pubs, education, clubs)
• Mass culture (pop music, television, magazines, crime novels)
The Uses of Literacy (1957)
• Many of the customers - their clothes, their hair-styles, their facial
expressions all indicate - are living to a large extent in a myth-world …
They form a depressing group and by no means typical of working-class
people; perhaps most of them are rather less intelligent than the average,
and are therefore even more exposed than others to the debilitating
mass-trends of the day. They have no aim, no protection, no belief’ (pp
248-9).
Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
• Working class Wales
• Culture represented ‘a whole way of life’
• Culture and Society (1958): shared Hoggart’s pessimism but not totally
dismissive of mass culture
• He celebrated jazz and football but deplored the trash novel and the
popular press
Edward Thompson (1924-1993)
• The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
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