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RETHINKING CULTURE (1989). 152 pp. A4 (large format). Edited by
Keyan Tomaselli. ISBN 0-620-11500-9. Pictures, graphics,
photos.

RETHINKING CULTURE is an excellent example of how British
Contemporary Cultural Studies travelled to South Africa,
was reconstituted in terms that different context, and
applied in popular struggles against apartheid.

The book will be of interest to anyone searching for more
information about the situation in South Africa during the
1980s, especially with regard to cultural issues rarely
addressed by the media in Europe. Richard Johnson,
previously of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies, has commented that the chapter, Lineage
of Contemporary Cultural Studies, is one of the most lucid
commentaries available on the work of his Centre.

David Rowe of Newcastle College, Australia, comments that
the book "contains a wealth of ideas and information from
cultural analysis and political conditions ... These
include labour and culture, education and culture, the
framing of news in the mass media. Each topic reveals
clear parallels with the operation of the mass media in
other capitalist countries, also highlighting features
unique to South Africa" (AFRICAN BOOK PUBLISHING RECORD).

David Kerr, University of Botswana, states: By turning
their backs on an elitist, reified view of culture as the
accumulation of values and art objects, by broadening the
scope of discussion to include the popular as well as
elitist cultures, by emphasizing the connections between
culture, ideology, history, class-formation and the
material production of knowledge, the contributors have
opened up fertile new opportunities for interdisciplinary
analysis (SOUTHERN AFRICAN REVIEW OF BOOKS).

Contributors include: Keyan Tomaselli, Johan Muller, Ian
Steadman, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, David Bascin, Julie
Frederikse, Muff Anderson, and Ntongela Masilela.

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