The definition of the term‚ popular culture‚ is not definitive. Each individual’s feelings toward the term may differ depending on their own standard of beliefs‚ values‚ and social behavior. In general‚ culture has to be accepted by the majority of the particular community‚ depending on the ideas and phenomena it entails. In Stuart Hall’s “Notes on Deconstructing ‘The Popular’”‚ he defines popular culture in a unique‚ thoughtful way. Hall agrees that popular culture involves society accepting new
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Theoretical Legacies- Stuart Hall the following write up on Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies is by Rinu Dina John ------------------ Stuart Hall is one of the most influential figures in cultural studies. He was part of the time when cultural studies was originated as an academic discourse or discipline. In this essay he questions the seriousness with which this discourse is engaged with a personal version of the history of the cultural studies. According to Hall cultural studies emerged
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Stuart Hall - The Floating Signifier Part 1 Starting with Spike Lee’s movie in wich individuals trowing racial slours and insoults on every race - Afro-Americans‚ Aisans‚ Latinos‚ Jews.. Sut Jhally (University of Massachusetts) is talking about visual race diferences (color‚ hair and bone). If we want fight against racism‚ first we have to understand it and see how it works in our minds‚ so we could better combat it on the streets. What racism as philosophy contains is that is a natural connection
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Stanley Cohen (1973) suggests that the media depiction of anti-social behaviour helps to construct folk devils. Folk devils become the focus of public fears and anxieties. They are made to stand for wider problems and concerns and‚ in the process‚ become the figures who exemplify ‘what is wrong with society today’. Today’s folk devils might be the ‘yobs’‚ ‘hoodies’‚ ‘yobettes’ or ‘alco-yobs’ referred to in newspaper headlines. In Cohen’s original study they were the ‘mods’ and ‘rockers’‚ members
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Cultural Identity and Diaspora STUART HALL A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging‚ joining the company of the other ’Third Cinemas’. It is related to‚ but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) ’blacks’ of the diasporas of the West the new post-colonial subjects. All these cultural practices and forms of representation have the black subject at their centre‚ putting the issue of cultural identity in question. Who is this emergent
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Deconstructing America Patrick J. Buchanan is a conservative‚ political voice in the United States today. The article Deconstructing America is from his 2007 book‚ Day of Reckoning: How Hubris‚ Ideology‚ and Greed Are Tearing America Apart. I chose this article because it is one of the ones my group looked closely at in class‚ and I feel like I understand it more than other articles we read after talking it out with them. "The United States‚ the greatest republic since Rome
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Hall and other advocates found a way to gain more knowledge about children. In 1893‚ Hall became a founder of the National Association for the Study of Childhood. Hall and his colleagues gained knowledge of children by making observations‚ questionnaires‚ and various reports on them (Pickren‚ 2012). Hundreds of the questionnaires were used in thousands of schools for approximately two decades (Pickren‚ 2012). The responses the children put on the questionnaires gave a general insight about a child
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(De)constructing Yiddishland: Solomon and SoCalled’s HipHopKhasene Abigail Wood In “(De)constructing Yiddishland: Solomon and SoCalled’s HipHopKhasene” Abigail Wood reviews the album HipHopKhanse‚ recorded by Sophie Solomon and Josh Dolgin. In her article‚ Wood discusses how the album breaks boundaries by bringing klezmer music into the modern world. As well‚ she talks about how this
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This is a summary of the article “In the halls of shame” written by Vanessa Baird‚ co-editor of New Internationalist (January/February 2011 edition). The article brings to light the massive influence corporations and billionaires have on national and international policies and the secretive and hidden processes by which they operate. She uncovers the truth behind the relationships between politicians and rich businessmen‚ intent on exposing their shameful activities. A world of lobbying Coined
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In the halls of shame In the halls of shame 2011‚ by Vanessa Baird sheds the light on the increasing influence of trade lobbying in international politics and in the way it shuts out the honesty of public interest groups. In the starting of the article‚ the author discusses‚ the uplift stemming from the admission by Britain’s recently elected Con-Dem government‚ which states it will be writing the national health policy with the help of PepsiCo and McDonald’s corporations. Therefore‚ this is showing
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