This study is a conceptual revision of the backgroundof cultural studies and the popular culture field inGreat Britain in the 1950s.This academic domainwas defined by mass society in the middle of the20th century, and by those who, like Theodor W.Adorno and Max Horkheimer, spoke about massculture.Modern artists and their critics then createdan insuperable divide between art and thecommercial objects of popular culture.The formerclaimed the sphere of art and knowledge, whereaspopular culture belonged to the social market.Basedon this division, the modern notion of mass cultureset the precedent of Raymond Williams’popularculture concept, and the theoretical formulation ofother authors who developed the British culturalperspective.It was a project which tried to overcomethis modern vision of culture.
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