LITM Extra - 'The Kids are Alright': The Emergence of Cultural Studies [excerpt]

Love is the Message: Dance, Music and Counterculture

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In this patrons episode we thought we’d begin to explore the academic discipline of Cultural Studies. Tim and Jeremy (both Cultural Studies professors themselves remember) explain the ways in which academic study of popular cultural was developing in the mid-70s, including the political motivations informing academics developing the discipline, in the wake of sociology and social anthropology. They talk about analysis of subculture, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Mods, Rockers, nostalgia, Cool Jazz, with a healthy dash of DH Lawrence thrown in for good measure.

In our next episode we’ll discuss in detail the seminal book Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain.

Books:

William Foote White - Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum
C. Wright Mills - The Power Elites
Raymond Williams - Culture and Society
Richard Hoggart - The Uses of Literacy
DH Lawrence - Lady’s Chatterly’s Lover
Stan Cohen - Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Paul Willis - Profane Culture

Tracklist:
Lennie Tristano - Crosscurrents
Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger - The Black Velvet Band
The Who - The Kids are Alright
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away