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Further reading

Storey, John (ed.), Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 4th edition, Harlow:
Pearson Education, 2009. This is the companion volume to this book. It contains
examples of most of the work discussed here. This book and the companion Reader
are supported by an interactive website (www.pearsoned.co.uk/storey). The website
has links to other useful sites and electronic resources.

Chambers, Iain, Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience,London: Routledge, 1986.
An interesting and informed survey – mostly from the perspective of culturalism –
of the rise of urban popular culture since the 1880s.
Clarke, John, Chas Critcher and Richard Johnson (eds), Working Class Culture: Studies
in History and Theory,London: Hutchinson, 1979. Some good essays from a cultur-
alist perspective. See especially Richard Johnson’s ‘Three problematics: elements of
a theory of working class culture’.
Eagleton, Terry (ed.), Raymond Williams: Critical Perspectives,Cambridge: Polity Press,
1989. Essays in critical appreciation of the work of Raymond Williams.
Hall, Stuart and Tony Jefferson (eds), Resistance Through Rituals,London: Hutchinson,
1976. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ seminal account of youth sub-
cultures. Chapter 1 provides a classic statement of the CCCS’s version of culturalism.
Hall, Stuart, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Lowe and Paul Willis (eds), Culture, Media,
Language,London: Hutchinson, 1980. A selection of essays covering almost the first
ten years of the CCCS’s published work. See especially Chapter 1, Stuart Hall’s
important account of the theoretical development of work at the CCCS: ‘Cultural
studies and the Centre: some problematics and problems’.
Jones, Paul, Raymond Williams’s Sociology of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction,
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004. An interesting account. But its insistence on claiming
Williams for sociology distorts his place in cultural studies.
Kaye, Harvey J. and Keith McClelland (eds), E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives,Oxford:
Polity Press, 1990. A collection of critical essays on different aspects of Thompson’s
contribution to the study of history; some useful references to The Making of the
English Working Class.
O’Connor, Alan (ed.), Raymond Williams: Writing, Culture, Politics,Oxford: Basil Black-
well, 1989. Provides a critical survey of Williams’s work. Excellent bibliography.