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Popular Culture and Life-Style Politics

Scholars eventually must contend with the consequences of their ideas, and in the United States the study of popular culture is a telling example. The criticisms and defenses of popular culture that were heatedly exchanged in the 1950s 1 so stifled serious scholarship that today the field is traversed primarily by a myriad of pop culture afficionados and only a few intellectual nomads.2 While the latter individuals are still addressing such fundamental problems as how to define popular culture and to elucidate its relationships