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26 Cards in this Set
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Angecy |
Interpersonal Power Agencys: the power Agent: the people behind the power |
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History |
An evidenced based account of the occurrence and impact of past events |
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Audion |
An electronic amplifying vacuum tube, invented by Lee de Forest |
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Culture |
the customs, arts, institutions, attitudes and intellectual achievements of a particular nation, people, or other. |
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Folktale |
A tale or legend, especially one which originates from the oral tradition of a common people |
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Popular Culture |
Culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated elite |
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Myth |
An arrangement of the past, whether real or imaginary, in patterns that reinforce a cultures deepest values and aspirations |
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Cultural angency |
the ability of a person group or institution to make choices and act independently in creating cultural product, thus impacting society |
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paradox |
A statement or relationship that seems contradictory, but in reality expresses a possible (albeit complex) truth |
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american pop culture |
popular at certain times in american history or events/ movements that happened |
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Globalism |
A national policy of treating the whole world as a proper sphere for economic, political, and cultural influence |
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Constructs |
Blending symbols with things or ideas put together by multiple things and ideas; i.e. food toys and ideas |
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Symbol |
A thing that represents or stands for something else especially a material object representing something abstract. |
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Narratives |
history, folktales, myths, tv/film, movie. stories about race gender origin etc. |
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Discuss How American cold war hopes and fears were reflected in the era's pop. culture. |
America feared that their own biggest enemies were themselves, this was reflected by the types of content the tv shows had, such the episode of the twilight zone called the monsters are due on maple street. |
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Recount the origin of Jazz, discuss its critiques and account for the role of race its development |
Jazz originated in the very early 1900's coming from inspirations of blues, which came from hookers, which came from field hollers. Jazz was looked down upon by the older generation because it promoted suggestive dance styles such as rag time and other negro inspired dances. Irene and Vernon Castle were a husband and wife who were famous for creating the fox trot which was danced to Jazz, James Reese was the lead in the orchestra and worked with the Castle's to bring black music to white audiences. Victor's talking machine company offer Freddy Keppard to be the first person to ever record jazz, Keppard turned down the offer because he was black and he didn't want his race to get in the way of people enjoying the music. Thus the Original dixie land band was the first to record jazz in feb. 1917. Nick LaRocca took all the credit for creating Jazz saying that the Negros had nothing to do with the creation of Jazz. |
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Describe the Chicago House Sound and discus its roots. Account for it's evolution |
The chicago house sound was electronic dance music that originated in the 1980's. House music came evolved from disco, which came from motown. First started being played at the club warehouse in chicago, where a famous musician named Frankie Knuckles Played (1977) |
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Identify the innovators behind the birth of Radio, explain their relationship to one another, and discuss the development and impact of the relevant technologies |
Marconi, Lee de Forest, and Edward Armstrong where the innovators behind the birth of radio. marconi and de Forest where competing to see who could get the first dot- and - dash signal across the alantic, Marconi eventually won. De forest went on to create the Audion tube but didn't really understand it. Armstrong then picked up this project and could actually understand what it did. So an inspector named David Sarnoff told Armstrong to patent the audion with Sarnoff's company. the technologies that were created made it possible for radio to exist. |
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Identify Robert Moog Describe the hardware he developed and discuss his impact on pop culture. |
Robert Moog was the founder of Moog music and he created the mini Moog or Moog synthesizer in 1968 which was an analog synthesizer/ music mixer. A synthesizer generated electronic sounds through loud speakers, so it was basically a model of the first keyboard. it influenced mainstream pop culture and dance. |
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Who was Jerome Robbins |
Robbins was a director and choreographer who was born to Russian and Jewish immigrant parents. Jerome Robbins was one of the most important choreographers/ director of the 20th century. he directed shows on Broadway. but was known for his perfectionist trates and bad temper. |
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Describe characteristic of american new wave cinema during the 1960's and 70's. explain what influenced this movement, and discuss a few examples of genres or films from this era. |
This was the Second wave, often called the New Hollywood Generation, rose to prominence in the late 60s, bringing a new set of values representative of the counter-culture and an aesthetic influenced by the French New Wave. Bonnie and Clyde, the Graduate and whose afraid of Virginia wolf were all films from this time period. |
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Recount the plot for adventures of huckleberry finn. what does it reveal about the era of reconstruction and how does it relate to the course themes. |
The story is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River provide the backdrop for the entire book. Huck is kidnapped by his drunken father but escapes and run into Jim along the way who is a slave. Huck and Jim go down river getting to know each-other and Huck realizes that Jim is a person too even if he is a niger. This reveals that people were finally starting to view black people and humans. it relates to our course themes because it shows the change of those current pop culture beliefs. |
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Account for George Plimpton as a cultural agent |
George Plimpton invented participatory journalism, he wrote many books but one of his most popular books was paper loins which was published in 1965. |
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Who was Jacob Riis and what did he do? |
Riis was a Police reporter, who shed light on how the other half lives, he explored the tenements which were the slums of new york. he used flash photography in 1890 and the article entitle "How the Other Half lives" to do this. |
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Discuss the influences techniques and intent behind Andy Warhol's, "campbell's soup can" |
Warhol used advertisement as art. he had a new form of expression using celebrity endorsements mass production. his intent was to break away from Norms. |
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recount the myth of the crossroads- explain its origin and link narrative to relevant course themes |
the myth of crossroads started because a man by the name of Tommy Johnson was a really terrible musician. Johnson went away for a little awhile and came back a musical genius. he said that he went to the crossroads at midnight and the devil came, Johnson claimed to have sold his soul to the devil which is why he was able to play to well. this link the the Paradox truth vs. myth |
