No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture

By Andrew Ross

Book Overview

The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America. He argues that the making of "taste" is hardly an aesthetic activity, but rather an exercise in cultural power, policing and carefully redefining social relations between classes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415900379
• ISBN13: 9780415900379
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A modern Bible for the Popular Culture

Andrew Ross has done a terrific job here, with this in depth fascinating study of the parameters of Popular Culture that touches on so many subjects it is impossible to describe. Here you will find all kinds of explorations that have to do with Jazz, Poetry, Painting, Politics and Rock n' Roll all interconnected by the searing intelligence of Ross, who is able to connect so many disparate subjects and draw valid and penetrating conclusions that will help anyone draw some valid conclusions about the influence of Popular Culture on Highbrow Culture and vice versa in our confusing modern times. Very helpful for anyone interested in Art and Sociology.