Popular music

ever 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…

‘60s? An important thing to know is what pop culture is. According to the dictionary, pop culture is “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people”. It varies from film to music to television to books. Things like sports, theater, politics, slang and clothes were also parts of pop culture. Although the term “Pop Culture” was officially used often, that’s what we call it back then. Pop Culture was the beginning of trends…

Alyssa Potts Period 4 22 March 2017 1970s Popular Culture/Music The 1970s pop culture is a blend of both the 1960s and an individual movement impacted by the Vietnam War. It was a pivotal time in history as fashion, cars, movies, TV shows, music, sports, and disco dancing all shaped the coming decades. There was a tremendous amount of growth in the economy in the 1970s with inflation being so high. The 1970s brought the end of the Vietnam War, colorful disco fashion, and a television in every…

The term ‘popular culture’ refers to a culture built on what the general public desires opposed to the elite class that usually have the control. This applies to things within society such as music, food, fashion, even religion. Whether someone considers themselves to be religious or not, it affects their life in numerous ways. If someone is religious, they most likely participate in religious rituals, practices and makes life decisions with their faith in mind. On the contrary, if someone is…

The concept of amusement has been used as the basis of popular culture as a source of entertainment with its goal of amusing it’s audience but in recent societies has revolutionized and in a response, been critiqued with looking into the inner workings of Disneyland and overall critique of amusement with “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” Entertainment has multiple sources such as music, film, television and amusement parks are the basis for popular culture that are primarily seen through media,…

Music itself is a language. This language is used everywhere and we relate it to everything. For an individual, one language might speak louder then another. The song “Life of the Party” by Shawn Mendes speaks a language that I can relate too. Released in July of 2014, the song was featured on the Shawn Mendes EP and Handwritten album. “Life of the Party” is a song that has an impact on me and has and will have a cultural and historical significance. This song, which is one of my favourites,…

If you’re not familiar with Hot Chip, let me introduce you: Hot Chip is a synth-driven, pop-fantastic, disco fancy, funk-rock, dancey, sentimental, sassy, experimental anomaly from London. They make original music that doesn’t always make musical sense—by that I don’t mean it’s hard to digest because most of it is enjoyable to listen to. However, they offer melodies, sounds and chord progressions that keep the listener interested and often thinking, “I didn’t expect that.” Their sound is their…

There are two perspectives that can be used to examine the account of 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…

Psychedelic Perception: Music and Fashion in the 1960 's. The sixties, without a doubt, held great change in American popular culture. “Popular culture includes fashion trends can be a flux of both the current culture and the direction in which a popular is moving. The favorite music of the culture may include artists on the Billboard Top 100” (yourdictionary). The introduction to open sexual thought, drug use, and change of traditional culture were the beginning of the transition into the…

domination discourses and power relations to be contested” (Dahlberg, 2005, p.93). While today humans can use the internet to access information and have the choice between different media sources, the majority stick to what is known. For example, popular news media dominates and focuses on western, commercialised news, thus increasing consumption of less diverse news (Dahlberg, 2005). Through the internet users have more control as they can express opinions on discussion boards and networking…