Materiality and Popular Culture: The Popular Life of Things (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) - Tapa dura

"Conceptually eclectic and empirically wide-ranging, this book provides an expansive and sophisticated exploration of the complex, shifting and emergent relations between the material and the popular." –Mike Michael, University of Sydney, Australia

"Approaching the growing research field of material and popular culture from a range of perspectives and through many relevant and up-to-date case studies, this anthology adds to our understanding of the materiality of our everyday encounters with the popular." - Karin Fast, Karlstad University, Sweden

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.