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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2009
‘As it stands, the concept of popular culture is virtually useless, a melting pot of confused and contradictory meanings capable of misdirecting inquiry up any number of theoretical blind alleys’ […] popular culture is in effect an empty conceptual category, one which can be filled in a wide variety of often conflicting ways, depending on the context of use.
Tony Bennett [quoted] and John Storey in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture