ABSTRACT
This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while offering a fresh approach to both: unpopular culture. From the works of David Foster Wallace and Ernest Hemingway to fanfiction and The Simpsons, from natural disasters to 9/11 and beyond, the essays find the unpopular across media and genres, analysing the politics and aesthetics of a side to culture that has been overlooked by previous theories and methods in cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Why We Talk the Talk We Talk
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On the Emptiness of Terms, the Processual Un/Popular, and Benefits of Distinction—Some Auto-Ethnographical Remarks
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chapter |19 pages
How (Not) to Make People Like You
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The Anti-Popular Art of David Foster Wallace
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chapter |14 pages
Dissenting Commodities
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Negotiations of (Un)popularity in Publications Critical of Post-9/11 U.S.-America
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Karaoke Americanism Gangnam Style
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K-pop, Wonder Girls, and the Asian Unpopular
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chapter |17 pages
‘When order is lost, time spits'
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The Abject Unpopular Art of Genesis (Breyer) P-Orridge
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chapter |21 pages
‘Famous in a Small Town'
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The Authenticity of Unpopularity in Contemporary Country Music
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Hipster Black Metal?
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Deafheaven's Sunbather and the Evolution of an (Un)popular Genre
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Cultural Studies and the Un/Popular
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How the Ass-Kicking Work of Steven Seagal May Wrist-Break Our Paradigms of Culture
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The Unpopular Profession?
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Graduate Studies in the Humanities and the Genre of the ‘Thesis Hatement’
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