Foreword
Introduction: Popular Culture as Everyday Life
Phillip Vannini and Dennis D. Waskul
Essays on the Daily Life of Popular Culture
1. Watching Television
Thomas Conroy
2. Watching Reality Television
Tony E. Adams
3. Watching Drug Commercials
Charles Edgley
4. Using Mobile Phones
Christopher J. Schneider
5. Sharing and Waiting on Facebook
Staci Newmahr
6. Reading
Michael Schwalbe
7. Making Video
Phillip Vannini
8. Sharing Selfies
Uschi Klein
9. Playing Music
Simon Gottschalk
10. Seeing Live Music
Emily M. Boyd
11. Playing Games is (Not Always) Fun
J. Patrick Williams
12. Sleeping
Carolyn Ellis
13. Having Sex
Beth Montemurro
14. Going to the Bathroom
Dennis D. Waskul
15. Getting Dressed
John C. Pruit
16. Putting on Makeup
Rebecca F. Plante
17. Drinking Coffee
Pernille S. Stroeback
18. Exercising
Michael Atkinson
19. Kicking Ass
Dale C. Spencer
20. Watching the Super Bowl
Bernard D. Glowinski and Joseph A. Kotarba
21. Home-Making
Karen McCormack
22. Having Pets
Leslie Irvine
23. On Not Driving
Sherryl Kleinman
24. Snow-Gazing
David Redmon
25. Shopping
Keith Berry
26. Trick-or-Treating
William Ryan Force
27. Staying in Hotels
Orvar Löfgren
28. (Not) Smoking
Justin A. Martin
29. Consuming Craft
Michael Ian Borer
Phillip Vannini is Canada Research Chair in Public Ethnography and
Professor of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads
University. He is the author of five books and editor of seven, as
well as the editor of two book series, including
Interactionist Currents (Ashgate). All of his scholarship deals
with cultural and everyday life issues. Several of his journal
articles and chapters for edited books have also dealt with popular
culture and everyday life issues, such as research studies on
camping, eating, drinking, travelling, building, consuming, body
modification, experiencing the weather, and more.
Dennis D. Waskul is a Professor of Sociology and Distinguished
Faculty Scholar at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He has
authored or edited six books and is editor of the book series
Interactionist Currents (Ashgate). He has published many empirical
studies, including various investigations of the use of new media
technologies for sexual purposes, sensual sociology, and the
intersections of fantasy and lived experience. Dennis serves on the
editorial board for multiple journals, including Sexualities and
Qualitative Sociology.
"Ultimately, this is a very rewarding text, and one that this
reader will be coming back to many times."--Will Gibson, University
College London, in Symbolic Interaction
"Relevant for multiple disciplines, Popular Culture as Everyday
Life offers readers a unique (and even experimental) perspective on
popular culture that at times reads like a diary, at other times
like a history lesson, and at still other times promises to be a
time capsule or snapshot representing popular culture as it
currently exists in the early twenty-first century. Whether they
are embracing the culture, resisting the culture, or merely
co-existing with the culture, the authors in this volume
collectively document and examine the place, function, meaning, and
value that the culture in question has in their everyday lives."--
Carol Rambo, University of Memphis"Peter Berger argued that the
most important thing you can know about someone is what they take
for granted, and these days, it is largely about popular culture.
The gripping essays show the richness of "the mundane doings of
people and their ways of life" in constructing social and moral
orders, even as they celebrate the profoundly trivial. The chapters
will motivate students to do their own investigations of everyday
life."-- David Altheide, Arizona State University"Popular Culture
as Everyday Life celebrates how daily commonplaces can become rich
subjects for deep sociological insights. The diverse chapters
reveal the mundane doings of people to be anything but. A must read
for anyone who has ever slept, gotten dressed, drank coffee, put on
makeup, gone to the bathroom, has never smoked or kicked ass, has
watched television, or has had sex."--Eugene Halton, University of
Notre Dame
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