Mass culture / edited by Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White

THIS VOLUME provides the first comprehen sive collection of writings on mass culture -studies of our movies, mass literature, radio-TV fare, advertising, popular music, etc., as well as theoretical essays which at tempt see mass culture whole. Twelve of the forty-nine selections are published for the first time, and other essays have been revised and updated by their authors. The material never before in print amounts to more than one-third of the total wordage.

Social scientists have analyzed various as pects of mass culture, and their objective studies are fully represented here. But social scientists with their professional value-neu trality are relative latecomers to this field. Most of the material on mass culture has been written by others-by literary critics, philosophers, political journalists, et al. These writers, who bulk large in this vol ume, are nearly all concerned with defend ing or attacking a particular point of view.