Abstract

Part 1 In search of popular culture: the discovery of the people unity and variety in popular culture an elusive quarry - the mediators, oblique approaches to popular culture. Part 2 Structures of popular culture: the transmission of popular culture - the professionals, the amateurs, settings, tradition and creativity traditional forms - genres, themes and variations, the process of composition heroes, villains and fools - prototypes and transformations, popular attitudes and values the world of carnival - myths and rituals, carnival, the world upside down, the carnivalesque, social control or social protest? Part 3 Changes in popular culture: the triumph of Lent - the reform of popular culture - the first phase of reform 1500-1650, the culture of the godly, the second phase of reform 1650-1800 popular culture and social change - the commercial revolution, the uses of literacy, politics and the people, the withdrawal of the upper classes from withdrawal to discovery. Appendices: the discovery of the people - select studies and anthologies select publications illustrating the reform of popular culture, 1495-1664.

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