Abstract
This article will examine some reasons why until recently cultural studies did not have much of an importance in the academia of both Germany and Austria. It will give a brief overview of the reception of cultural studies' work on youth culture in the early eighties which led to the wrong impression that cultural studies was basically about the study of youth. It will then be argued that the importance of the concept of 'high culture' (the fine arts, the refined etc.) as well as the traditional opposition of literature and the social sciences and the impact of the Frankfurt School proved to be major factors to hinder a broad reception of cultural studies.
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