Critical Response: Listening to Popular music David Riesman During the 1950s a sociologist by the name of David Riesman published a study on the listening habits of teenagers. In the study itself he addresses Adorno’s assumptions about the power of the music industry over consumers. After completing interviews with approximately 150 youths‚ Riesman found that a minority group’s critical attitude toward mainstream popular music led them to make alternative choices for themselves. According to Riesman
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Are soap operas radical television? Or do they merely support a dominant ideology under capitalism? Question Four Are soap operas radical television? Or do they merely support a dominant ideology under capitalism? "Vicki! I I thought I heard your voice" Roy Lichtenstein; Vicki; 1964 "Oh‚ Jeff I love you‚ too But" Roy Lichtenstein; I love you but; 1964 Traditional soap opera dialogue is not unlike the pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein’s stylised magnification of the commonplace
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Introduction Racism. A relatively new word in our vocabulary. The word was not defined until 1936‚ when Webster’s dictionary defined racism as 1: A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race 2: Racial prejudice or discrimination. This is a definition of racism that was written by white men‚ back wen it was ok to deny the access of certain facilities to blacks. This was even considered
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In his essay After the Great Divide. Modernism‚ Mass Culture‚ Post Modernism‚ Andreas Huyssen argues that “since the mid 19th century‚ the culture of modernity has been characterised by a volatile relationship between high art and mass culture.” The writer states that Modernist artists strove to distance themselves from the “l’art pour l’art” movements of the turn of the century like Art Nouveau‚ Symbolism and Æstheticism. This type of art pandered to the tastes of the middle classes striving to
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German Culture Germany has been remarkably called Das Land der Dichter und Denker (the land of poets and thinkers). The diverse culture of Germany has been molded by the major intellectual and popular currents in Europe‚ both religious and secular. This report is divided into several aspects of German Culture which are as follows. Language German is the official and predominant spoken language in Germany. Minority languages constitute Sorbian‚ Danish‚ Romany and Frisian. The immigrant languages
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materialism‚ material circumstances‚ reflectionism‚ superstructure etc. Major figures include Karl Marx‚ Terry Eagleton‚ Fredric Jameson‚ Raymond Williams‚ Louis Althusser‚ Walter Benjamin‚ Antonio Gramsci‚ Georg Lukacs‚ Friedrich Engels‚ Theordor Adorno‚ Edward Ahern‚ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Like Freudian theory‚ Marxist theory’s influence on Modern art and literature can be first broken down by its influence of writers‚ and the works they produced‚ and on readers‚ and the way critics
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The definitions of race are largely dependent on societal and biological factors. Race refers to a person’s physical characteristics‚ or phenotypes. Race is largely focused on skin color. Ethnicity is based on a shared origin or way of life. Ethnicity looks at culture‚ nationality‚ language and history. Race is determined by how you look while ethnicity is determined based on the social and cultural groups you belong to. While ethnicity has a basis in the biological sciences‚ the idea of race is
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"Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany" by Michael Kater There has only been one moment in history when jazz was synonymous with popular music in the country of its origin. During the years of‚ and immediately prior to World War II‚ a subgenre of jazz commonly referred to as swing was playing on all American radio stations and attracting throngs of young people to dancehalls for live shows. But it wasn’t only popular amongst Americans; historian Michael H. Kater‚ in his book
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represents. “Art is the reproduction of reality.” How best to define the term "art" is a subject of constant contention; many books and journal articles have been published arguing over even the basics of what we mean by the term "art". Theodor Adorno claimed in 1969 "It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident." Artists‚ philosophers‚ anthropologists‚ psychologists and programmers all use the notion of art in their respective fields‚ and give it operational definitions that
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Assignment Question: Comparison of Mass society theory with limited effect paradigm. Submitted to: Sir Zeeshan Zaigum Submitted by: Sana Nasir Powerful Effect Paradigm: In powerful effect paradigm‚ media has immediate‚ direct influence and assumes that people are passive and absorb media content uncritically & unconditionally. That paradigm related to Frankfurt school of though. Three theories come under this paradigm; one is Mass society theory‚ second is Magic bullet theory and
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