Hop on Pop is a study of the works of scholars in the current generation from diverse fields such as cinema, cultural studies as well as literature. The works of the authors attain significant inspiration from their engagement in the traditional culture and their insights mainly derived from fans, consumers, and critics. The anthology on pleasures of modern culture and politics extends a manifesto that provides an outline on a new focus in cultural studies. The popular culture directs much of its attention to the empirical rather than the theoretical, and a translation of critical acumen about redirecting the popular culture back to the widespread practice. The comprehension of the modern culture is demonstrated well through; receptiveness of the culture to people who are beyond the academy, theoretical pre-conceptualizations challenged through empirical evidence should always be recognized, and continuity of experience.
The main subjects under discussion include karaoke, baseball card collecting, pro wrestling, soap operas, lesbian desire in the Wizard of Oz, Myst and Doom computer games, stress management industry, the Tour de France, and internet enthusiast (Babylon 5 ). The primary themes surveyed include the native of popular culture, politics of performance and aesthetics in addition to the cultural and social processes where practices and objects are reckoned tasteful or tasteless. The new perspective reveals the popular culture as one that “sticks to the skin” thereby becoming desperate to study it from a distance since it has already sunk too much in us. The survey possesses putative tendencies as outlined regarding the popular culture: to trail contextualist over structuralist; regarding accessibility, to transform critical insights of traditional culture to practice; to embrace multivalent perspectives regarding academic writing; adopt immediacy and finally approve situated as opposed to prior facts
References
III, H. J., McPherson, T., & Shattuc, J. (2002). Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture. Durham: Duke University Press.
