Without this platform for critique and analysis the dominant culture continues to reproduce inequalities as well as govern critical discourse. Furthermore, without this – the intellectual has no voice within public discussion and understanding of popular culture, contemporary or historical. The university education would be failing if it produced academics and scholars who are proficient in a narrow area, for this is of restricted practical use in a society saturated with popular culture. The academic study of popular culture is political because it seeks to uncover the ways in which cultural items of consumption are created, selected, consumed and interpreted in relation to dominant ideals of identity and lifestyle. Furthermore, these notions and formations of identity and lifestyle relate to (predominantly, but not restricted to) gender and class. Issues around ethnicity have not been addressed within this essay due to the author being white, to speak on behalf of people of colour would be to demonstrate a privilege oppositional to the agenda of studying popular
Without this platform for critique and analysis the dominant culture continues to reproduce inequalities as well as govern critical discourse. Furthermore, without this – the intellectual has no voice within public discussion and understanding of popular culture, contemporary or historical. The university education would be failing if it produced academics and scholars who are proficient in a narrow area, for this is of restricted practical use in a society saturated with popular culture. The academic study of popular culture is political because it seeks to uncover the ways in which cultural items of consumption are created, selected, consumed and interpreted in relation to dominant ideals of identity and lifestyle. Furthermore, these notions and formations of identity and lifestyle relate to (predominantly, but not restricted to) gender and class. Issues around ethnicity have not been addressed within this essay due to the author being white, to speak on behalf of people of colour would be to demonstrate a privilege oppositional to the agenda of studying popular