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Since the 1960s, the trend has been less toward progressive and linear interpretations in favor of examining events, material circumstances, and ideological explanations of popular culture. One of the pioneering figures has been Natalie Zemon Davis. In 1975, she published a seminal collection of essays on a variety of topics from sixteenth-century France, such as rituals of violence and the charivari. Charivaris were a virtually ubiquitous and ritualized form of autonomous popular justice. In one form of charivari, youth abbeys—literally gangs of unmarried journeymen or peasants—staged public mockeries to punish local persons of ill repute and reinforce communal norms. Young artisans employed the charivari to regulate access to limited marriage prospects, targeting cuckolded husbands, widowed masters who married younger women, or widows of masters who refused to remarry.
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RollingStone.com ( http://www.RollingStone.com ) is the Internet's premier authority on music and popular culture, and is an EMusic Web site. The site leverages ``Rolling Stone'' magazine's unrivaled deep archives, including more than 7,000 artist profiles, an extensive collection of exclusive photos and interviews, 30+ years of magazine covers and over 1,000 on-demand videos.
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Celebrated collection of essays and interviews that deals with the power of popular music, especially as it is used in defining and producing youth subcultures. Wide-ranging and eclectic, the collection deals with topics from rave to rap, college rock to Brazilian funk.
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