Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945

From jitterbugging to Big Brother, from the introduction of television to the rise of file-sharing, Friday on our Minds explores the ways popular culture has developed and changed in Australia from the end of World War II to today.

To understand the massive social and cultural changes that took place in Australia since the middle of the 20^th century, Michelle Arrow examines popular culture through three lenses: the development of a mass consumer society; the impact of technological change; and the ways that popular culture feeds individual and collective identities on the one hand and expresses them on the other. She provides a compelling account of changes across a range of popular culture forms.

Lively and insightful, Friday on our Minds shows that, far from being trivial or merely entertaining, popular culture reveals a great deal about Australia's history and about social and cultural change.