examine the contribution of Raymond Williams to cultural studies
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Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, critic and novelist. His writings on culture, politics, literature and the mass media are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of arts and culture. His work laid the foundation for cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach.
In the nineteen fifties and sixties scholars like Raymond and Stuart Hall believed that the rise of mass communications and popular forms were changing the people's relationship to power and authority and to one another. They proposed that culture was an attempt to grasp these changes, it was a site of "negotiation".
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Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was quite an influential figure within the New Left and in the wider culture.
His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature were considered as a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts.
The popular book, Marxism, and Literature (1977) was written by him which was mainly for the specialists. It also sets out his own approach to cultural studies, which he called cultural materialism. With 'Culture' (1981/1982), that develops an important argument about cultural sociology, he hoped it would become "a new major discipline".
He had almost more than 35 published articles about Literary and cultural studies.
His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature were considered as a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts.
The popular book, Marxism, and Literature (1977) was written by him which was mainly for the specialists. It also sets out his own approach to cultural studies, which he called cultural materialism. With 'Culture' (1981/1982), that develops an important argument about cultural sociology, he hoped it would become "a new major discipline".
He had almost more than 35 published articles about Literary and cultural studies.
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