Brad Weiss’s ethnographic research on popular culture‚ hanging out in barbershops and bus stands‚ seamstress tables and video halls‚ was carried out in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha. In “Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barber Shops” Weiss does a great job observing the everyday life of the people in Arusha. He explores how globalization and neoliberalism affect the mindset of a community and shows the reader how gender role‚ media‚ and self-fashioning can play a big role in a person life. Weiss’s
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Iconic 50s The 50s were a time of rebellion‚ prosperity‚ and movement. America seemed to be transforming into a society that shaped the one we have today. With the development of the "American Dream"‚ a booming popular culture‚ and inching closer to equality for blacks and women make this period unforgettable. When you think of the American dream‚ you often think about a mother and/or wife staying home all day caring for the house‚ cooking‚ and caring for the children‚ while the man is hard
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objectified‚ a tense mood being created as the live models return to the viewer’s’ gaze while performing. “Beauty is an intent which society deals with and beauty creates shame” –Beecroft. Lee wens issues and interests include identity and Asian culture. Wen works from the cultural frame in his choice of subject matter‚ Postmodern in his methods and challenging of traditions as well as ideas and Structural in his use of objects‚ colour and symbols. Wen works in the form of installations using his
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Contributions to Indian Sociology http://cis.sagepub.com/ Introduction: Honouring Patricia Uberoi Satish Deshpande‚ Nandini Sundar and Amita Baviskar Contributions to Indian Sociology 2010 44: 1 DOI: 10.1177/006996671004400201 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cis.sagepub.com/content/44/1-2/1 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Contributions to Indian Sociology can be found at: Email Alerts: http://cis.sagepub
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motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture? In all nations worldwide‚ we all know the power of print media like magazine can do in terms of spreading news and changing lifestyle and culture of citizens. Therefore the Canadian government was well aware and mindful about the fact that using magazine is an easiest way to introduce pop culture to their citizens which will progressively affect the Canadian culture. The spreading of the pop culture forces the CanadiaN government in the 1920’s
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of political ideology on Soviet posters and the ways in which this style continues to influence today’s advertising and popular culture. Though there are many forms of propaganda the forms of propaganda I intend to discuss in this essay are visual. The areas I aim to further my understanding of are the representation of political ideologies on today’s contemporary popular culture. I intend to investigate the idea that the Constructivists created the blueprint for modern consumerism and methods of
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AMERICAN BELIEFS AND VALUES There are some ideals and values rooted in the country’s history and spread by media (films‚ TV) that many Americans share. 1. Individualism – has strong roots in America. Individualism is understood not only as self reliance but also as economic self-sufficiency. It has been a central theme in American history. Many years ago most Americans were farmers whose success depended not on cooperation with others but on their ability to confront the hardships of land
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in the West Greg M. Smith Asian Cinema 13.2 (Fall/Winter 2002) 115-28 Most of us who write about films may as well relax and confess that we know nothing at first hand about Japanese movie production; that all we have as data has come to us from press-sheets‚ from quick consultations with the nearest Japanese bystander‚ or. . . whatever we have been able to find useful in the way of analogy and of seeing the "unaccredited" performances of Kabuki. - Vernon Young (1955: 416) When Rashomon
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Kids Love Hip-Hop Many people have a connection to hip-hop that goes beyond simple pop culture consumerism. Some youth who identify with hip-hop identify with more than just music or entertainment. And‚ acceptance of hip-hop as mainstream popular culture has “radically altered the racial landscape” and in the way that young Americans are processing race. Instead of stark racial divisions in popular culture‚ the popularity of hip hop has created a much more fluid situation. “But hip-hop music
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Sometimes this version of critical literacy is named ‘postmodern education’‚ bringing a rich heterogeneity of student voices into the classroom and validating popular ways of speaking and identities. In this type of education‚ students determine which meanings are important to them and the curriculum starts with these. In fact‚ critical literacy creates a space for modes of expression that have historically been
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