Popular Culture in Europe since 1800 A Student's Guide

From Zazel the Human Cannonball to the Eurovision Song Contest, Tobias Becker and Len Platt explore the trajectory of popular culture and mass entertainment in the modern age. This is an ambitious but completely accessible book for students and the general reader.

Professor Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University

This wide-ranging but concise overview puts popular culture at the heart of the story of modern Europe. Surveying forms and genres from motion pictures and musical theater to pop music and video games, it reveals how technological innovations and exchanges of ideas remade culture across three centuries. Popular culture is built on the interplay between the local and the global, Europe and America, "high" and "low" - this illuminating work makes those complex processes accessible to students.

Julia Sneeringer, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA