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- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/pop/
-ginawaffles
^ The website provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the US, including the impact of that culture beyond national borders.
Resources include sites on various forms of popular culture including music, film, television, advertising, sports, fashion, toys, magazines and comic books, and the medium in which this message moves, cyberculture.
The site focuses on issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, cultural imperialism and censorship, as shaped by and reflected in various mass media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture
"Popular culture (or pop culture) is the collection of ideas that are popular, well-liked or common and create the prevailing culture. These ideas are heavily influenced by mass media. [...] Popular culture permeates the everyday lives of the mainstream. It is manifest in preferences and acceptance or rejection of features in such various subjects as cooking, clothing, consumption, and the many facets of entertainment such as sports, music, film and literature."
try this one.. it explains alot about po culture, and can be described as GOSSIP!!!
http://www.popculturemadness.com/\
you'll see that everything people talk about from all over tv and the internet is found there!!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1071543/popular_culture_and_print_media.html?cat=2
"Print media sets the trend on what is hip and what is out. More importantly, it serves as an important factor in catalyzing and/or impeding Consumerism. By influencing human sensation and perception, America is by the minute being shaped and re-shaped into what has become the "American Culture" of today. Print media is so powerful that it can make us desire the things we use to dislike, made to believe in principles that we used to abhor and continually consume things in excess more than we have to. "
Megan Meeker
"We now know what pop culture is, but who creates it? There were about 30 people from around the world who chose to share their opinions on this subject. These people thought certain celebrities were involved in creating pop culture and others who thought that us, teenagers and young adults, were responsible for its creation. There were also people who agreed that the media created pop culture and those who thought that a combination of all of the above were involved in creating pop culture."
http://www2.ucdsb.on.ca/athens/popculture/creates.htm
"A good ad has potential, in my opinion, to effect somebody more than some other types of art." - Katie Baggs
http://www.snn-rdr.ca/old/june99/june99/advertising.html
http://english.berkeley.edu/Postwar/pop.html
Popular culture has been defined as everything from "common culture," to "folk culture," to "mass culture." While it has been all of these things at various points in history, in Post-War America, popular culture is undeniably associated with commercial culture and all its trappings: movies, television, radio, cyberspace, advertising, toys, nearly any commodity available for purchase, many forms of art, photography, games, and even group "experiences" like collective comet-watching or rave dancing on ecstasy.
what is pop culture??
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Popular culture (or pop culture) is the culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — which are popular, well-liked or common. This is often defined or determined by the mass media. Popular culture is deemed as what is popular within the social context — that of which is most strongly represented by what is perceived to be popularly accepted among society. Otherwise, popular culture is also suggested to be the widespread cultural elements in any given society that are perpetuated through that society's vernacular language or lingua franca. It comprises the daily interactions, needs and desires and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the mainstream. It can include any number of practices, including those pertaining to cooking, clothing, consumption, mass media and the many facets of entertainment such as sports and literature. (Compare meme.) Popular culture often contrasts with a more exclusive, even elitist "high culture,"[1], that is, the culture of ruling social groups.[2] The earliest use of "popular" in English was during the fifteenth century in law and politics, meaning "low", "base", "vulgar", and "of the common people" 'til the late eighteenth century by which time it began to mean "widespread" and gain in positive connotation. (Williams 1985)
Pop culture finds its expression in the mass circulation of items from areas such as fashion, music, sport and film. The world of pop culture has had a particular influence on art from the early 1960s on, through Pop Art. When modern pop culture began during the early 1950s, it made it harder for adults to participate.[3] Today, most adults, their kids and grandchildren "participate" in pop culture directly or indirectly
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080901061735AAHottX
www.perezhilton.com is the best example of popular culture, today. This site has new posts constantly throughout the day. Perez covers a wide variety of news from T.V., movies, political, fashion, and just plain bizarre news. According to Wikipedia Perezhilton.com gets over 8.82 million page views in a 24 hour period. If you want to know the breaking news, you go to perezhilton.com.
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