{"id":131,"date":"2012-11-30T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2016-11-22T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T09:12:01","slug":"everyday-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidtrend.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Culture: Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World (Paradigm, 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

EVERYDAY CULTURE draws its inspiration from a particular historical moment. In 1968 the meanings and potentials of ordinary life received attention in cultural and political circles throughout the western world as never before.\u00a0 Radios were playing \u201cEveryday People,\u201d a song by the rock\/funk band Sly and the Family Stone. Released in the months following the infamous Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the assassination of Martin Luther King, \u201cEveryday People\u201d captured the spirit of US culture as a plea for peace and equality. Remembered for it\u2019s chorus, \u201cI am everyday people,\u201d\"\"<\/a> the song resonates in a celebration of diversity, as lead singer Sly Stone Stewart proclaims \u201cWe are the same whatever we do\u201d with the refrain, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to live together.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cEveryday People\u201d holds the distinction as the first hit song in the U.S. by a multi-racial performing group.<\/p>\n

As \u201cEveryday People\u201d was moving to the number one spot on the U.S. pop\u00a0 chart, a more material manifestation of the everyday was taking hold in Europe. In May 1968 a general strike erupted in France within universities and high schools in a series of uprisings protesting poor wages and governmental wrongdoing. From riots outside the Sorbonne in Paris, the strike quickly was joined by workers, minorities, the French Communist party, and members of Situationist Internationale. Within a week France was crippled by a work stoppage of 10-million people\u2013\u2013roughly two thirds of the nation\u2019s labor force\u00ad\u00ad\u2013\u2013making it the largest strike in recorded history.<\/p>\n

Informed in part by these historical legacies,\u00a0 Everyday Culture<\/em>\u00a0 is about the confluence of cultural and material possibility\u2013\u2013the bringing together of thought and action in daily life. The book argues that an informed and invigorated citizenry can help reverse patterns\u00a0 of dehumanization and social control. The impetus for \u00a0Everyday Culture\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0<\/em>can be described in the observation by Raymond Williams that \u201cculture is ordinary,\u201d and that the fabric of meanings that inform and organize everyday life often go undervalued and unexamined.\u00a0\u00a0Everyday Culture<\/em> shares with thinkers like Williams the conviction that it is precisely the ordinariness of culture that makes it extraordinarily important. The ubiquity of everyday culture means that it affects all aspects of contemporary economic, social and political life. \u00a0\u00a0Seen his light,\u00a0 \u00a0Everyday Culture<\/em>\u00a0 is about a hope for a better future.<\/p>\n

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EVERYDAY CULTURE draws its inspiration from a particular historical moment. In 1968 the meanings and potentials of ordinary life received attention in cultural and political circles throughout the western world as never before.\u00a0 Radios were playing \u201cEveryday People,\u201d a song by the rock\/funk band Sly and the Family Stone. Released in the months following the … <\/p>\n

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