Popular culture

relationship between popular culture and the Australian society after WWII on the year 10 level for both the humanities and music leaning areas. This topic is part of the AUSVels year 10 history/ geography curriculum and aligned with the 2016 Victorian music curriculum. The main inquiry questions for this unit is: “How has global pop-culture (music, film and T.V.) influenced Australian Identity and society in a post WW2 environment?”. The three key terms for this unit are: globalization,…

think about why popular culture affect us? Popular culture is what we consume in our lives and the decision in what we make. American popular culture have a positive influence on society. We are influenced by our popular culture because of the way we socialize with the social media, television, music, and magazines. Popular culture have shaped us in many ways, such as, the way we dress, do things, and connect ourselves with all of these social medias. Pop culture or popular culture have an…

To study popular culture is to challenge the assumption that high culture carries worth, and low culture is the binary opposite therefore lacking in value. Popular culture, is the everyday ordinariness of life (Williams 1958: 93) and saturates everyday life. Popular culture is so widespread that its presence cannot be ignored within an academic study of humanities. The dilemmas surrounding popular culture originate from definition: in defining it with recognition to its historical subjugation to…

point in time refers to a popular culture (Little, 2013). Pop culture encompasses public’s aspects of social life, as what Brummett describes in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture. People’s interactions in their day to day activities; fashion trends, language use, and even the food they eat define popular culture. Mass media often plays an important way of popular culture’s expression and diffusion today. From yourdictionary.com, these are some examples of popular culture: • The…

Beyonce’s impact on the communication of popular culture and identity. Those two perspectives that we learned in class are that popular culture is a site of hegemonic struggle and wildly favored by population. These two perspectives help to give a better understanding of how to examine both the account of Beyonce’s performance, as well as the performance itself. The first perspective, a site of hegemonic struggle, is meaning that the creator of this culture is a position of authority. While…

Stereotypes in Popular Culture Popular culture is significance of structuring race, class, and gender. “Although popular culture can be a powerful mechanism for sharping us, it can also be a vehicle for challenging structured inequalities and social injustices” (Guy, 2007, P. 15). According to Guy (2007), popular culture emerged as a concept in nineteenth-centry England and was taken to mean the culture of the masses. It was frequently used in contrast to ‘high culture’. Moreover, popular…

Popular Culture Final Assignment A. Questions and Answers 1. What is meant by high culture, low culture, and folk culture? Explain and give some example! Answer: According to Rob Kroes (1996) in the book entitled If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen the Mall, Europeans has the metaphors that the use to visualize America and one of those metaphors ‘represents it as a country of leveling, erosion, and shallowness’. Kroes also mentions how ‘Europeans tend to pride themselves on a firm sense of…

enthusiast of anything, from sports, food to even fashion trends. That is to say, we use the term ‘fan’ loosely to describe our preferences towards something and anything. However, this usage is incorrect, as fans are actually specific recipients of popular culture. Fans are actually distinctive audience of various types of media, holding in-depth knowledge of the product and have continuous consumption of the said product (Siuda, 2010). In fact, fans are also described to be socially minded…

Both methods of analysis perceive popular culture as material to be viewed and enjoyed by everyone, irrespective of class, wealth or status. Both methods of analysis agree that popular culture is everywhere in our daily lives and adults and children alike, are consumed- overtly and stealthily- by the pervasive messages that are delivered. Both methods of analysis view popular culture as progress, freedom and representation of our leisure interests on one hand and as the purveyor of risk and harm…

can be seen portrayed in popular culture, where it is frequently linked to adventure and treasure hunting. Adventure has overwhelmed and mesmerized people’s thoughts, and led them into fanaticising the past and its tales. This paper will discuss the use and misuse of archaeology practices portrayed in popular culture, and will also discuss and compare archaeology portrayed in popular culture to the planned and controlled archaeology practice. Popular culture or pop culture is identified as the…