WHAT IS CULTURE?
WHAT IS POPULAR CULTURE?
MEINSTREAM?
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CULTURE
WILLIAM RAYMONDS 1. Culture as history of human practice 2. Culture as practice 3. Culture as artistic activity See the text:
Lecture 1:
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POPULAR CULTURE
Google click: “culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated elite” Popular culture(also called pop culture) is generally recognizedby members of a society as a set of the practices,beliefs, and objectsthat are dominant or ubiquitous in a societyat a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelingsproduced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. Heavily influenced in modern timesby mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday livesof people in a given society. Therefore, popular culture has a way of influencing an individual’s attitudestowards certain topics (from Wikipedia, after McGaha, Julie. “Popular Culture & Globalization”, 2015) with its: history mass media film TV Music Sport Branding Etc etc etc etc… |