Culture and the popular: introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby
Culture and the popular: introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby
This article introduces the special number of French Cultural Studies commemorating the role of Brian Rigby as the journal’s first Managing Editor. It situates his contribution in the emergence of cultural history and French cultural studies during the rapid expansion of higher education from the 1960s in France, the UK, the US and other countries. It suggests that these new areas of study saw cultural activities in a broader social context and opened the way to a wider understanding of culture, in which popular culture played an increasingly important part. It argues that the study of popular culture can illuminate some of the most mundane experiences of everyday life, and some of the most challenging. It can also help to understand the rapidly changing cultural environment in which our daily lives are now conducted.
Brian Rigby, cultural history, cultural studies, everyday life, French culture, media
293-299
Kelly, Michael
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1 November 2018
Kelly, Michael
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Kelly, Michael
(2018)
Culture and the popular: introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby.
French Cultural Studies, 29 (4), .
(doi:10.1177/0957155818795380).
Abstract
This article introduces the special number of French Cultural Studies commemorating the role of Brian Rigby as the journal’s first Managing Editor. It situates his contribution in the emergence of cultural history and French cultural studies during the rapid expansion of higher education from the 1960s in France, the UK, the US and other countries. It suggests that these new areas of study saw cultural activities in a broader social context and opened the way to a wider understanding of culture, in which popular culture played an increasingly important part. It argues that the study of popular culture can illuminate some of the most mundane experiences of everyday life, and some of the most challenging. It can also help to understand the rapidly changing cultural environment in which our daily lives are now conducted.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 28 October 2018
Published date: 1 November 2018
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Brian Rigby, cultural history, cultural studies, everyday life, French culture, media
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