Mass culture: pro or con? From the time of Adorno and Horkheimer's seminal essay
on "the culture industry," cultural studies has stood in the shadow of the
Frankfurt School's critique of mass culture and its model of popular vs. elite
culture, whatever the merits of either. Looking at culture as something people
do rather than buy, "Power Misses" challenges the prevailing wisdom in cultural
studies today.
David James insists that popular resistance to domination by the culture
industry must intervene at the point of production rather than consumption. In
its most resolute instances, from the poetry of William Blake to the British
Miners' Campaign Tape Project, alternative