[PDF.96uc] The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

[PDF.xg68] The American Surfer: Radical Culture and Capitalism (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

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 | #7262396 in Books |  2010-10-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.56 x5.98l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 222 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A good start to a larger analysis|By Dina Gilio-Whitaker|Lawler explores the meanings conveyed by images of surf culture and how they are are deployed in the service of capitalism. She gives a detailed history of the genealogy of surfing in California where the modern surfing subculture was born, imported as it was from Hawaii around the turn of the 20th century. But note that|About the Author|Kristin Lawler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent.

The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture - films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements. In this book, Kristin Lawler examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture, from its roots in ancient Hawaii, to Waikiki beach at the dawn of the twentieth century, continuing through Depression-era California, cresting during the early sixties, persist...

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