time machines. They make us realize how the world has changed since then. The 1960s was the decade that a lot of social movements and political trends were affecting the U.S. It had developed and changed a lot since the 1960s to the 2000s mostly in popular culture. The 1960s and the 2000s are very different than each other in terms of; science‚ music and fashion. Science was one of the areas that developed the most. In the 1960s‚ the first space craft landed on moon but in the 2000s the U.S. wanted
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Review Questions: 1) Popular music is any music since industrialization in the mid-1800s that meet middle class expectations. Popular contains all different types of music and Pop music is just simply a type of music included in popular music. It’s kind of like saying all Maple trees are trees but not all trees are Maple trees! 2) Themes such as love and relationships are used to create much of the pop music lyrics. A song that uses this theme would be Tina Turner’s song “What’s love got to
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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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Popular Kinds of Music The word “Mucis” derives from Greek “mousike” which means art of the Muses. Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. To many people in many cultures‚music is an important part of their way of life. With 20th-century‚rock music‚electronic music and R&B music are become popular for teenagers. Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in 1950s
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The term “popular culture” according to scholars‚ like Raymond Williams and John Storey must agree with the qualifier popular. And any culture that is generally accepted among various classes in the society is fit to be called popular. However‚ for a culture to be popular in the twenty first century‚ it should be affordable and should appeal to all classes. In the sense that it influence on them must drive their pleasure towards this particular product or activity. The soap opera Super Story has
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Week 1 Madonna Case Analysis For Madonna‚ her challenge will be navigating the shifting business paradigm she acknowledged (Grant‚ 2013‚ p.444) to continue to generate value into the future in the context of her own mortality. The solution for this challenge will be a growth options strategy with an emergent focus (Grant‚ 2013‚ pp. 22‚ 53) driven by capitalizing on her large body of work and iconic global brand for long term success. Synopsis of the Case Throughout her career‚ Madonna effectively
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García-Canclin interrogates how could be possible that popular cultures have been excluded from research on hegemony and state‚ social change‚ and development in a continent in which masses have been decisive in revolutions. Two crisis have lead to study popular cultures: first‚ the crisis of hegemony and the epistemological crisis. “The exhaustion of economistic paradigms that fail to account for the cultural bases of power‚ and the non-economic necessities that mobilize peoples” (p. 467). García-Canclini
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Meritocracy & Popular Culture Alger’s book‚ Ragged Dick‚ tells the story of an ambitious‚ industrious‚ and honest boy who through hard work and some luck climbs the ladder to a better life and a higher social status. According to Alger‚ he does this not by taking advantage of other people‚ but by keeping an eye out for opportunities‚ working hard‚ and improving himself. The picture I chose was drawn by Clay Butler in 1994. It depicts a Frankenstein-like creature standing on top of a pile of dismembered
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are also very quick to point out that these shows don’t discuss or show safe sex techniques. Sex in popular entertainment is sex without consequences or emotional impact‚ but teenager viewers do not see behind the lights and the cameras. Teenagers are having sex at younger ages and teen pregnancy is becoming a huge problem in the United States. Our society has become very dependent on popular culture without even thinking about the real messages that are displayed. Arnett 2 The average
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Culture is the learned behavior of our society. This may include knowledge‚ beliefs‚ values‚ customs‚ art‚ entertainment‚ and the way we act‚ feel or think about our surroundings. Popular culture is a shared knowledge and behaviors of a society at a specific time. It is widespread and generally accepted by most people. Three major trends in American pop culture are music‚ television‚ and fashion. The music listened to at a specific time is the voice of that generation expressing themselves
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