Common culture : symbolic work at play in the everyday cultures of the young / Paul Willis ; with Simon Jones, Joyce Canaan and Geoff Hurd

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Willis, Paul

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Publication details: Buckingham : Open University Press, cop. 1990Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 165 pISBN:

0335094325

Summary: 'The institutions and practices, genres and terms of high art are currently categories of exclusion more than of inclusion. They have no real connection with most young people or their fives. But there is a vibrant symbolic life and symbolic creativity in everyday life, everyday activity and expression - even if it is sometimes invisible, looked down on or spurned. Young people are all the time expressing or attempting to express something about their actual or potential cultural significance. This is the realm of living common culture. 'The genie of common culture is out of the bottle - let out by commercial carelessness. Not stuffing it back in, but seeing what wishes may be granted should be the stuff of our imagination. ' This provocative, challenging and uplifting book, based on extensive research into the cultural life of young people today, will be essential reading for students of culture and society, for those involved in the making and implementation of cultural policy and in the education of the young, and indeed for anyone concerned about the future of our society. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02151	1	Available (Disponible)		1900003485

Preface and acknowledgements -- Some recent statistics -- 1. Symbolic creativity -- 2. The cultural media and symbolic creativity -- 3. Music and symbolic creativity -- 4. Style, fashion and symbolic creativity -- 5. Everyday life and symbolic creativity -- 6. Common culture -- Afterword -- Appendix

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