The Staging of the Popular

In this history the popular is the excluded: those who have no patrimony or who do not succeed in being acknowledged and conserved; artisans who do not become artists, who do not become individuals or participate in the market for “legitimate” symbolic goods; spectators of the mass media who remain...

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Published inHybrid Cultures p. 145
Main Author Garcia Canclini, Nestor
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 05.01.2006
EditionNED - New edition
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Applied arts
Artisans
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Cities
Communities
Crafts
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Cultural studies
Decorative arts
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Folk culture
Folklore
Folkloristics
Human behavior
Human geography
Human societies
Labor economics
Latin America
Metropolitan areas
Occupations
Political geography
Popular culture
Social behavior
Social groups
Social interaction
Social sciences
Sociology
Traditions
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Summary:In this history the popular is the excluded: those who have no patrimony or who do not succeed in being acknowledged and conserved; artisans who do not become artists, who do not become individuals or participate in the market for “legitimate” symbolic goods; spectators of the mass media who remain outside the universities and museums, “incapable” of reading and looking at high culture because they do not know the history of knowledge and styles. Artisans and spectators—are these the only roles assigned to popular groups in the theater of modernity? The popular tends to be associated with the premodern
ISBN:0816646686
9780816646685