Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British academic and public figure, whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with a special concern for British popular culture. He is widely known for his 1957 book "The Uses of Literacy". This book was differently interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic popular culture and as denouncing the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries. Wikipedia
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