From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, Popular Memory and Cultural Studies - Softcover

Brabazon, Tara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0754643972 ISBN 13: 9780754643975

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

From Revolution to Revelation offers a new paradigm for Cultural Studies. Tara Brabazon explores our understanding of our own past and the collective past we share with others through popular culture. She investigates Generation X, the ’post-youth’ generation born between 1961 and 1981, and the popular cultural literacies that are the basis of this imagining community. She looks at the ways in which popular culture offers a vehicle for memory, providing the building blocks of identity - the politics and passion of life captured in an unforgettable song, an amazing nightclub, or an unexpected goal in extra time. For a fan, the joy and exhilaration is enough, but it is the task of cultural studies to understand why particular cultural forms survive the passage of time and space. Brabazon argues, with Lawrence Grossberg, that Cultural Studies is ’the Generation X of the academic world’. She tracks its journey away from Marxism and subcultural theory and looks at its future. In particular she explores the possibilities of popular memory studies in reclaiming and repairing the discipline of Cultural Studies - making it as relevant and as revelatory as in its revolutionary past.

About this title

About the Author

Tara Brabazon is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754643972
• ISBN 13: 9780754643975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202