POPULAR CULTURE By definition‚ popular culture is associated with the everyday‚ the mainstream and that which is commonly accessible: in short‚ culture produced for mass consumption. If there’s one thing people like to consume more than almost anything else‚ it’s popular culture. Television‚ music‚ movies. Every year it seems‚ the popular culture goes a little bit further‚ louder and faster‚ more action‚ bigger explosions. Is it good or bad? Popular culture is hard to ignore. It affects nearly
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November 2013 Television Shows of the 1950’s and Mass Culture During the 1950s‚ the average American was an optimistic reflection of the traditional values of the times. Then as the world around them began to change‚ so did the types of television programming they were exposed to. The era of the 1950s was an extremely confusing time as America was trying to adjust to its new role as a competing superpower and still trying to maintain the strong foundation of American society while at the same time trying
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During the 1950’s America had not yet recovered from the devastating effects of World War II and was already thrust into another conflict‚ The Cold War. This war of espionage and fear between the United States and Russia created a hatred of communism and Communists in America. Events like The Second Red Scare‚ known as McCarthyism created a panic that anyone could be a communist. McCarthyism led to false accusations of communism onto other people without any evidence to support their claim. People
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“soul”‚ as it refers to music‚ what do you think of? Most people think about rhythm and blues‚ passionate lyrics‚ or even the concept of unity and togetherness. But‚ for most‚ soul was much more than music and Soulsville was much more than just a record label. Soul music is music that feeds the soul‚ relating to people on a personal level. Soulsville‚ which stands on the corner of College Street and E. McLemore Ave‚ was the connection between the frustration that African Americans felt during the 1960’s
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What Genre of Music is Most Popular in Teens and Why? What makes music popular? Over 90% of responses have said that 3 things make a good song. Those three factors are lyrics‚ a melody line and a catchy rhythm (Forum.emusictheory.com‚ 2014). My survey I created has reached a result to this question that most people said that the best type of music is the one with the most meaning. They said that the lyrics of the song make it good because they like that it has meaning and songs without meaning
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things that were happenings in those times. “There are almost as many ways of categorizing American folk music as there have been people collecting it; there are books on folk songs organized by geographical area: Appalachian‚ Ozarks‚ New England‚ and Texas; by song subject: work songs‚ spirituals‚ songs of courtship and marriage‚ children’s songs‚…;
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What is popular (low) culture? "Popular culture is a symbolic expression allegedly aligned with the questionable tastes of the "masses‚" who enjoy commercial "junk" circulated by the mass media‚ such as soap operas‚ rock music‚ talk radio‚ comic books‚ and monster truck pulls" (Campbell‚ 18). When looking at the high-low hierarchy it often determines the way people view culture as a whole today‚ saying high culture is good taste and low culture is questionable taste. Many audiences take for granted
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First Nation • A term used in place of “Indian band / nation” Pre-WW1 • Many Aboriginal peoples found themselves increasingly displaced as immigration increases in Canada • Illness and disease were becoming problems – Aboriginal populations were declining • Federal government’s policy of assimilation was being carried out through use of the residential school system‚ enforced farming‚ and reserve system o Residential schools had been set up under the 1876 InAct because the Act stated
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Nowhere placed loneliness After watching the film‚ I only feel loneliness. As Giuseppe Tornatore’s first English-language film‚ “The Legend of 1900” was renowned in the end of the twentieth century. It tells a story of a pianist’s legendary life. On the luxury cruise Virginian‚ An orphan is abandoned in the first class. He is named after the year he was found‚ 1900. Nineteen Hundred becomes a prodigy with special piano talent‚ as he slowly grows up. He performs piano on the cruise‚ and everyone is deeply
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Healthcare and nursing in the 1900-1919 period would change history forever. Nursing during this time would change from the traditional bedside nursing at home to a more institutional based nursing within the hospitals (Porter-O’Grady‚ T. 2004). In the Early 20th century most nursing education was hospital based and students learned by doing. Care was now being delivered at the hospitals. Organized medicine begins to emerge with the American Medical Association (AMA) reorganizing as the national
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