Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture
“In a series of provocative and finely crafted essays on film, rock ’n’ roll, early television, popular novels, New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations, and other aspects of popular culture, Lipsitz argues that popular culture has been, and remains, an arena of hope, possibility, criticism, and even resistance for millions of ordinary people.” --American Studies George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Along with Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble he is co-author of The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights and the Ethics of Co-Creation. Lipsitz has authored (among other books) How Racism Takes Place, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, Time Passages, Dangerous Crossroads, Footsteps in the Dark and Midnight at the Barrelhouse. He serves as editor of the Insubordinate Spaces series at Temple University Press, as editor of the comparative and relational ethnic studies journal Kalfou, and as co-editor of the American Crossroads series at the University of California Press. Lipsitz serves board chair for the African American Policy Forum and for the Woodstock Institute. The American Studies Association awarded him the Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship in and the Bode-Pearson Prize for Career Distinction in This high take on ``low'' culture examines the complex web of popular narratives that arise from and create the American collective memory. Studying the period from the end of WW II to the present, Lipsitz ( Class and Culture in Cold War America ) inventively explores the popular canon, turning variously to television, rock music, film, novels and the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans who spend all year preparing to celebrate Carnival. Lipsitz argues that TV shows such as I Remember Mama gave voice to immigrant working-class families, in part to inculcate that subculture with a consumer ethic. Rock music is seen as an important dialogic process with African origins, incorporating influences from a variety of ethnic groups . Lipsitz's vocabulary subscribes to academic trends (``metaphoricity''), and careless editing permits a repetition of phrases and ideas. But the author frequently arranges amusing juxtapositions--such as epigraphs by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry. (Dec.) Details Reviewed on: 11/01/
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“Time Passages is a far-reaching-and perhaps permanent-contribution to cultural studies.” --San Francisco Review of Books
“What really separates Lipsitz from earlier critics of popular culture is that he got his rock diploma from the high-school gym, not the Frankfurt School. Lipsitz knows the color of the labels, the B-sides, the cover versions.” --Boston Phoenix Literary Section
George Lipsitz is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he serves as director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute. He is the author of many books, including American Studies in a Moment of Danger (also published by the University of Minnesota Press), The Possessive Investment in Whitenes
Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture
Lipsitz adds to the evidence of the presence of the past in cultural analyses, but this is not just a series of studies that add to our evidence base; his close readings of a number of contemporary (as in since ) cultural texts an
Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture
George Lipsitz. University of Minnesota Press, $ (pp) ISBN
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