The Brecht Forum The New York Marxist School 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor New York, New York 10001 (212) 242-4201 (212) 741-4563 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) Popular Culture in the United States: A Gramscian Perspective a talk by Joseph Buttigieg Monday, December 11 at 8 pm Gramsci's theory of the "national-popular" has interesting implications for the development of a distinctively socialist popular culture. This talk will focus on the ways in which Gramsci's ideas on folklore, common sense and good sense, and the relation between class and ideology can sharpen our understanding of popular culture in the United States. Author and Gramsci scholar Joseph A. Buttigieg is Professor of English and Fellow of the Center for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Admission is $6. ***** All Brecht Forum lectures are available on audiotape at $8 per lecture. To order, make checks payable to *The Brecht Forum* and mail to The Brecht Forum, 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor, New York, New York 10001. For orders outside the U.S., please send a bank check or international money order payable in U.S. funds and enclose an additional US$5 per order to cover air postage. //30
