Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman

by Paul du Gay, Stuart Hall, Linda Janes

In recent years `culture' has become a central concern in a wide range of fields and disciplines. This book introduces the main substantive and theoretical strands of this `turn to culture' through the medium of a particular case that of the Sony Walkman. Using the example of the Walkman, the book indicates how and why cultural practices and institutions have come to play such a crucial part in our lives, and introduces some of the central ideas, concepts and methods of analysis involved in conducting cultural studies.

Genres: Cultural Studies, Nonfiction, Cultural, Anthropology

160 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 1996

Reviews

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I found the system of going to the readings and back to the text a bit inconvenient, this paper is the sole reason my thesis exists, so thank you. Contains a lot of information about the Sony Walkman, from the beginnings until after it comes out, i really found that information useful.

[Garrett Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a prescribed text in a Media Studies course in 2010, I have since revisted it, and I now appreciate much more the theoretical framework put forward and ideas espoused. Despite being written in 1996 - this could easily be applied to the ipod or iPhone. Merely by deleting the word Walkman and replacing it with a iPhone would, astoundingly, render this text fully functional still.

Such versatile ideas.

[• Domeniko • · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.10

[Jonatan Södergren · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sometimes too pedagogical but chapter 5 was excellent

[k.]

i now know more about the Sony walkman than is decent. but a really useful framing device for my future projects (and the class essays, of course).

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This guy needs to write a book about iPods.

[Bayangandigital · Rating 3 out of 5]

Write about iPhone n iPod