Seeking culture in a cultural void? the relationship between suburbia and popular culture
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Abstract
Th ere are some concepts that lend themselves to watertight defi nition. We know
that a recession is when an economy has experienced two quarters of negative
growth and there is a clear formula for calculating gross domestic product (GDP)
but by contrast we are not so clear on what exactly it is that unambiguously a
‘suburb’ may or may not be. Its derivative ‘suburbia’ also eludes easy defi nition
notwithstanding that both are long established terms. Th e Compact Edition of
the Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the origins and usage of the word
‘suburb’ go way back at least to Chaucer. Many of us have some sort of inklings
about what this peculiarly Anglo-Saxon/Anglophone/Anglo-American notion
is but there is no common agreement on what constitutes it. In the absence
of any defi nitive defi nition of what we mean by suburbia, the concept has
frequently formed in the popular imagination through representations of it
in popular culture.
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