• Make a hero out of does not exist as such.

• Culture not same as working class culture

• Culture is the terrain of struggle: Hall
• Resistance is mounted over power; same terrain where power contains
resistance
• Popular culture is struggle between struggle and resistance
• Cannot assume this working class culture is inherently right or wrong or
progressive.

• Pg 234: popular culture is all those things the people do or have don

• Central idea: popular imperialism

• 3 definition of culture

○ This is the problem I have

○ Intervening in the critique
○ Not pure, authentic, blameless
• Final idea: popular culture is not about what ordinary people do; it’s the
struggle between containment and resistance
• Cannot assume that people are right all the time
• Arguing against the notion that democracy is about listening to the people
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