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1 From High Culture to Ordinary Culture

Popular Culture in Modern France, 1991, p.1-38

1991 Brian Rigby ;ISBN: 9780415012461 ;ISBN: 0415012465 ;EISBN: 9780203358924 ;EISBN: 1134982003 ;EISBN: 9781134982004 ;EISBN: 0203358929 ;EISBN: 9781134981991 ;EISBN: 1134981996 ;DOI: 10.4324/9780203358924-1

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  • Title:
    1 From High Culture to Ordinary Culture
  • Author: Rigby, Brian
  • Is Part Of: Popular Culture in Modern France, 1991, p.1-38
  • Description: In this study my aim is to set out significant elements of the discourse on culture which has been such an important feature of modern French intellectual life. My primary focus is postwar France, but I also look to the time of the Popular Front in 1936 as an important point of reference for later debates on culture. In fact, since the terms of the modern debate on culture were, to an important extent, established at the time of the Popular Front, I hope to point out the links not only between 1936 and the periods of Resistance and Reconstruction, but also to indicate the significant continuities up to the early 1960s and even beyond. However, although I take my examination of cultural discourse up to the present day, my principal aim is to sketch out the general field of cultural discourse, and for this purpose I take the key period for my investigation to be from 1945 to the late 1960s. I consider this period to be without doubt the high point of intellectual and political debate about such issues as popular culture, mass culture and State intervention in culture. This is not to say that the questions have ceased to be discussed. Cultural discourse in France is apparently infinite in quantity. Every French intellectual seems to want to have his or her say on cultural matters and the books and articles continue to be produced at an alarming rate. There seems no prospect of this flood diminishing and for some optimists this is clearly a sign of cultural health: 'If there were no cultural discourse, that would basically mean there would be no future and, therefore, no hope and no dynamism.' 1
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780415012461
    ISBN: 0415012465
    EISBN: 9780203358924
    EISBN: 1134982003
    EISBN: 9781134982004
    EISBN: 0203358929
    EISBN: 9781134981991
    EISBN: 1134981996
    DOI: 10.4324/9780203358924-1
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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