Popular music

1960s, the time Pop Art was emerging in America, a war-consumed society was transitioning into a mass cultural embrace of media and art. Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture. Pop Art was young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment.…

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…

Seiko Matsuda was the first of the Japanese popular figures to use kawaii in exploiting the burikko girl look and could be credited with bringing the phenomenon into the widely accepted light in which it now exists. Matsuda did this by adopting a childish fashion sense, embracing her bow-legged stance…

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…

Evolutionary psychology looks to explain that the way individuals behave and act are due to the way we, humans have evolved, but can be used to understand other concepts as well. In this paper, I summarize an article by Gad Saad, entitled, “Nothing in Popular Culture Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution,” and evaluate its claims regarding the importance of evolutionary psychology in comprehending pop culture (2012). This is an important issue because evolutionary psychology is not…

paper. What I would like to discuss more significantly is how I believe mediated musicians use public social media accounts to be able to play music with people all around the world. Recently, I played drums on a music score for a man from Taiwan, but the film is based in Chile. For the past 2 and a half years I have been making a name for myself in mediated music…

cheeseburger to recover, I need three days of rest and IV bag. Just like my drinking tolerance my music tolerance has changed. This is something that will happen to all of us. We get older and our bodies change and our music palate also changes. This leads to the question, Am I getting older or is hip-hop terrible nowadays ? As a music journalist, I gotta be open to all types of music.There’s is a lot of music that I have to hear that I particularly don’t enjoy. You have to be unbiased and go…

The lyrics express a clear “us versus them” dichotomy, and the music video further enables a response that is linked to the aggressive imperialist military status quo of many Americans, including a verse in which he sings " 'Cause we 'll put a boot in your ass; It 's the American way." Furthermore, with lyrics such as "My daddy served in the army; Where is lost his right eye; But he flew a flag out in our yard; Until the day that he died," Keith emphasizes his own family 's military tradition,…

my terms, I would say that culture is the way a group of people dress, the way their beliefs are based, the way their art is presented, the way they think, the way their share and present their ideas, the way their syntax is formed, the way their music, the way they celebrate, and the way their food is presented. Culture sometimes changes as new generations rise. We often hear the idea of “pop culture”, which is an idea aimed at the taste of a set of people, more often than we hear of culture…

inflate their lips so they looked like hers. Big lips are a characteristic of African American individuals and was spread around as a trend when it was introduced by Jenner. Another popular example is Iggy Azalea who inhabits the black culture by using the language, the fashion and the style when she creates and performs her music. Along with that, in her raps she calls herself the “runaway slave master” which is undeniably impertinent. Azalea profits because she is a white person who sells a…