Four mid-1950s books formed the break defining Cultural Studies’ founding moment.
Evidence
In a deep sense, the “settling of accounts” in Culture and Society , the first part of The Long Revolution , Hoggart’s densely particular, concrete study of some aspects of working-class culture, and Thompson’s historical reconstruction of the formation of a class culture and popular traditions in the 1790–1830 period formed, between them, the break, and defined the space from which a new area of study and practice opened. In terms of intellectual bearings and emphases, this was—if ever such a thing can be found—Cultural Studies’ moment of “re-founding.” The institutionalization of Cultural Studies, first in the Centre at Birmingham, and then in courses and publications from a variety of sources and places, with its characteristic gains and losses, belongs to the 1960s and later. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 182
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Frames the intellectual chronology the reader needs to place Hall’s essays historically.
Related
- Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy founded Cultural Studies. (similarity 0.84)
- Cultural Studies’ founding texts were acts of recovery of prior traditions (similarity 0.81)
- Cultural Studies emerged from a literary rather than economic tradition (similarity 0.78)