Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England\'s vanishing Working-Class communities, and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new, homogenous \'mass\' U.
S.-influenced culture.
His headline grabbing bestseller (1957) opened up a whole new area of cultural study and remains essential reading, both as a historical document, and as a commentary on class, poverty and the media..
Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England\'s vanishing Working-Class communities, and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new, homogenous \'mass\' U.
S.-influenced culture