Workingclass perspectives offers weekly commentaries on current issues related to workingclass people and communities. Richard herbert hoggart british scholar britannica. It has since become strongly associated with stuart hall, who succeeded hoggart as director. Richard hoggart, as professor of modern english literature at birmingham university, founded the centre for contemporary cultural studies. Richard hoggart was born in leeds, united kingdom, on 24 september 1918. International journal of cultural studies, 101, pp. Richard hoggart, who has died aged 95, opened his autobiography by saying. Hoggart was born in the potternewton area of leeds, one of three children in an impoverished family. In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics reevaluate richard hoggart s contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of cultural studies. They examine hoggarts legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and. Richard hoggart was one of the founders of the british tradition of cultural studies. Politics, antipolitics, and the unpolitical, the uses of literacy, and the tyranny of relativism, all available from. Pdf on sep 20, 2010, ben clarke and others published the return of. Aspects of workingclass life by richard hoggart find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate.
He was mainly interested in long term changes in workingclass culture and the influence of mass media and mass affluence on this culture. Aspects of workingclass life by richard hoggart article pdf available in popular music 292. Cultural studies is the study of how a society creates and shares meaning. In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics reevaluate richard hoggarts contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of cultural studies. Richard hoggart, the uses of literacy and the cultural turn. In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics reevaluate richard hoggarts contribution to the history of ideas and to the. Richard hoggart and cultural studies bill hughes academia. One newspaper went so far as to refer, seriously, to a book called the uses of culture by raymond hoggart.
The uses of literacy and the cultural turn show all authors. Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies. Herbert richard hoggart frsl 24 september 1918 10 april 2014 was a british academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, english literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on british popular culture. Richard hoggarts the uses of literacy, reissued at the end of last year by penguin, is an important book, and there are at least three reasons to read it. He was the first literary critic to take the working class seriously and to extend the parameters of literary criticism to include popular culture. His first monograph, orwell in context, was published in 2007, and he is coauthor of understanding richard hoggart forthcoming, 2011. While a notoriously navalgazing discipline, the history of cultural studies development has been somewhat nebulous in describing the contribution of richard hoggart, author of the uses of literacy 1957 and inaugural director of the groundbreaking centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham. In an early text, i called it one of cultural studies three founding texts hall, 1980, and this is an opportunity to expand further on that judgement. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices relate to wider systems of power associated with or operating through. Richard haggart the importance of literacy may i, in my turn, begin by paying warm tribute to the memory of mina shaughnessy and expressing my great respect for her work, especially as we see it in errors and expectations.
I thought benjamin demott, writing in the nation, captured beautifully both the local and the larger significance. British cultural studies without at least some of the reservations i will go on to make later in this introduction, the label has become more widely used in recent 1. Richard hoggart, the uses of literacy and the cultural turn, stuart hall international journal of cultural studies, 101 2007. Beginning with a history of cultural studies, turner discusses the work of such pioneers as raymond williams, richard hoggart, e. Richard hoggart has been one of the leading cultural commentators of the last sixty years.
Richard hoggart and the uses of literacy university quick course. Cultural studies by lawrence grossberg, cary nelson, and paula a. They examine hoggart s legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his importance. Richard hoggart, aesthetic standards, and the commodification of workingclass culture in chapter 1 of capital, volume i. Download richard hoggart and cultural studies ebook free in pdf and epub format. This is not only a biography of richard hoggart, but a celebration of him and a fine tribute. Richard hoggart who has died at the age of 95 following a long illness was the founder of the birmingham centre for contemporary cultural studies, the institutional origin of what has become the global field of cultural studies.
But as i say we did not then know each other, and as writers we were pretty. Pdf on jan 1, 2010, james mcgrath and others published the uses of literacy. They also placed political intellectualism squarely within the purview of cultural studies. Helen of troy, richard hoggart, phonic wars, greta thunberg social media and videogames are often blamed for individual behavioural delinquency, but rarely praised for cultural creativity, social innovation, or helping us to form new social groups or work through new ideas. Richard hoggart, the uses of literacy and the cultural. But he also brilliantly captures hoggarts abiding concern with the moral quality of human life. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how textsin this case, mass publicationsare stitched into the patterns of lived experience. Richard herbert hoggart, british scholar born sept. Its sensitivity and depth of analysis hold up against contemporary prejudices, unlike the work of f.
At the time when richard hoggart and i were inseparable, we had not yet met. Contributors discuss a variety of issues, from what class means to how it intersects with race and gender to how class is shaping american politics. His great classic, the uses of literacy, provided for thousands of unsung workingclass readers a. It is not always so widely acknowledged that without the uses of literacy there would have been no cultural studies. Richard hoggart, stuart hall and in particular the birmingham centre for contemporary cultural studies cccs has. Richard hoggart, a british scholar who helped launch the academic fields of media and cultural studies, and who was a key witness in a. Pdf richard hoggart and cultural studies download ebook. It still seems reasonable that so many people put his uses of literacy and my culture and society together. He has published on subjects including george orwell, virginia woolf, englishness, and the politics of style. It is widely recognised that, without richard hoggart, there would have been no centre for contemporary cultural studies.
Hoggart issue of the international journal of cultural studies 2007. Richard haggart the importance of literacy errors and. Contentsnotes on contributors ix introduction 1 sue owen 1 richard hoggart, the uses of literacy and the cultural turn 20 stuart hall 2 richard hoggart. They were terence hawkes may 193216 january 2014, stuart hall 3 february 193210 february 2014 and richard hoggart 24 september 191810 april 2014. Leavis and other early pioneers of british cultural studies. Literary criticism and cultural decline in twentiethcentury britain 33 stefan collini 3 richard hoggart, cultural studies and the demands of the present 57 lawrence grossberg 4 richard hoggart. All this realised a torrent of publicity in which, for a brief moment, highbrow contributions to the field of cultural studies by middleaged academics hoggart was already edging 40 were guaranteed a coverage usually reserved for milk bars and tommy steele. Ben clarke is an assistant professor of english at the university of north carolina at greensboro. The case of richard hoggart claude grignon richard hoggart 19182014, a poor child who went onto become a university professor, was the epitome of a successful scholarship student.
Three globally significant figures in cultural studies died in 2014. He has authored or edited over twentyfive books, including between two worlds. My argument will be that cultural studies requires social theory and that cultural studies in turn is a crucial part of a critical theory of society. Richard hoggart and cultural studies sue owen download. Richard hoggart and cultural studies find, read and cite all the research you need. It is not always so widely acknowledged that without. The publication of the uses of literacy in 1957 propelled richard hoggart, then an extramural lecturer at the university of hull, to the forefront of. April 2014 in london war ein britischer kultursoziologe. The trajectory of this exemplary counterexample sheds light on the mechanisms of social reproduction. First, it is a deeply humane account of a social group the mainly northern workingclass at a decisive historical conjuncture, experiencing the interaction of the two broad cultural forces of the predominantly. The main collection ms 247 comprises a substantial part of the personal and working papers, manuscripts and associated correspondence relating to the life and work of richard hoggart, university teacher and professor of english literature and cultural studies, academic administrator, writer, broadcaster, literary critic, cultural analyst and. This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the english working class in response to mass media.
His masters of arts thesis there was interrupted when he was drafted for service in the second world war. The works of stuart hall and richard hoggart with the birmingham centre, later expanded through the writings of david morley, tony bennett and others. Aspects of working class life 1957, a semiautobiographical sociological examination of urban workingclass society, and the founding director 196473 of the university of birminghams centre for. Lord melvyn bragg inglis does excellent justice to richard hoggarts unrivalled studies of workingclass and organizational culture. This is an attempt to make, out of a personal story, a sense rather more than the personal. Treichler editors 1992 the uses of literacy by richard hoggart 1957 the uses of cultural studies by angela mcrobbie 2005 stuart hall. It is widely recognized that, without richard hoggart, there would have been no centre for cultural studies. Richard hoggart, aesthetic standards, and the commodification of workingclass culture.
The term was coined by richard hoggart in 1964 when he founded the birmingham centre for contemporary cultural studies or cccs. They examine hoggart s legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and. Cultural studies is interested in the process by which power relations organize cultural artefacts food habits, music, cinema, sport events etc. Pdf richard hoggart and the international journal of cultural. They examine hoggarts legacy, identifying his widespread influence, tracing continuities and complexities, and affirming his importance. This paper introduces a special issue of the international journal of cultural studies on. Richard hoggart has been, perhaps, the bestknown, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, british intellectual of the past sixty years. Hartley, john 2007 richard hoggart and the international journal of cultural studies 10 years on.