Pop Culture Popular culture is your friend. Popular culture is good for you. Today consumers are the dictators. The people have spoken and we wish to be satisfied with something more substantial than "Perfect Strangers" and The Monkees. And we have that now‚ for the most part. In his article "Watching TV Makes You Smarter‚" Steven Johnson argues that culture today is far different from that of the glory days of the 1970s. Culture today is more demanding cognitively. He introduces what he calls
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Singh Period 4 11/17/10 Folk VS Pop Culture Outline Preliminary Questions 1 Some differences between pop and folk culture include fashion and clothes. For example‚ in pop culture‚ new fashions change constantly and are influenced by the media and celebrities whereas in folk culture‚ clothing styles are passed down by generation to generation. Another difference is the way they are diffused; Pop culture is spread by hierarchal diffusion whilst in folk culture‚ they hinder new and mainstream trends
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Weldy Boyd Assignment #5 2013/04/25 The Toxic Society: Celebrity Culture “Gangnam Style‚” popular K-Pop single released by Psy‚ musician‚ received unexpected feedback from the whole world which brought up a novel trend of outrageous dancing gesture and distinguished music style that people were crazy about. Pop singers can be so influential to society boundlessly nowadays that they create a whole new fashion trend or culture for people to follow whenever they release a new album or any public
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’girl power’‚ popular feminism‚ diversity of sexualities‚ gender trouble‚ media power‚ contradictions and change. Each of these themes is briefly discussed below. Fluidity of identities and the decline of tradition We have seen various ways in which popular ideas about the self in society have changed‚ so that identity is today seen as more fluid and transformable than ever before. Twenty or thirty years ago‚ analysis of popular media often told researchers that mainstream culture was a backwards-looking
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Culture convergence due to ‘modernization’ or ‘globalization’ Since early days‚ time and distance has become borderless as business entities begin to grow and spread their roots all over the world. It becomes unavoidable for one country without being any related to other countries in any business. Each and every individual have their own culture and being proud of it‚ but when the relation between two entities (individuals or countries) happens‚ the cultures may converge due to obtain mutual understanding
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Local culture being overshadowed by western popular culture is one of the effects of globalization. Pop culture is manifested around the world through movies‚ music‚ television shows‚ newspapers‚ satellite broadcasts‚ fast food and clothing‚ among other entertainment and consumer goods. Popular culture or famously known as pop culture is entirety of ideas‚ perspectives‚ attitudes‚ and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture. Heavily influenced by mass media‚ this collection
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Pop Culture A body is our physical structure. It is our flesh and bone. It represents our very being. We have utterly no control over which body we are born into‚ yet despite this fact‚ our body has the power to shape the people we become and even the way we perceive ourselves. Body image‚ as defined by Merriam Webster‚ is “a subjective picture of one’s own physical appearance established both by self-observation and by noting the reactions of others.” In Western culture‚ thinness has become highly
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Hong Kong Comics: Mass Culture? Introduction When I was first given the project topics to study‚ I decided to write a research paper on local comics without a second thought. As a Hong Kong people‚ local comics have took an irreplaceable position in my memory. Reading Old Master Q (老夫子) and Ngau Zai (牛仔) in the public libraries was one of the best memories in my childhood. Hence I want to carry out a study on local comics as a remarkable genre of the local popular culture. However‚ as Ng Wing Yee
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Hipsters shun mainstream‚ It is part of the hipster central dogma not to be influenced by mainstream advertising and media. This is tends to only promote ethnocentric ideals of beauty‚ the concepts of androgyny and feminism have influenced hipster culture‚ where hipster men are often as thin as the women they date. Women view the muscular‚ athletic and other male ideals as symbols of their oppression‚ sexism‚ and misogyny. Likewise‚ culturally-vapid sorority-type girls with fake blond hair‚ overly
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In the article‚ “Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music”‚ Simon Frith tries to show the aesthetic value of poplar music in the sociological field‚ while most of the academic musicologists think popular music‚ submitted to social forces‚ is aesthetically worthless. There are two different sociological approaches to judge the value of music. First is technique and technology‚ as Frith states‚ “people produce and consume the music they are capable of producing and consuming.” (Firth 498) But he
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