Popular sovereignty

3. How does food festival link between public and culture? How to get culture participate with public? Culture only was a concept, and it would provide tangible heritage to show the cultural performance. The food, as part of culture, could represent the form of culture. The food festival was a platform, not only involving the consumer, but also participating the culture to public. Mcguigan (1996) stated that the cultural activities should be democracy to the public; he also stated that the…

appropriation is clear. Every day the media misrepresents people. We live in a world where some cultures are stolen and then exploited in the media without any other forms of representation. Popular culture has been notorious for stealing ideas from other cultures without thinking of the outcome it will have. Some of popular cultures musicians, directors, actors, and public figures have at some point in time shown an example of culture appropriation. Celebrities such as Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian,…

Modern scholars have explored and portrayed different approaches to not only define postmodernism, but to follow the ripples, of the era’s disturbance on our novelistic endurance & literary production. From metaphysics to liberalism, Freudian predictions of our present culture to actual post-modern novelistic examples, from reality to technological attributions, politics and intertextuality, the explanations for the deterioration in literary creativity and quality vary widely. The fate of the…

still is really popular in the film industry. Bendle says “Apocalypses are one of the oldest narrative forms, and they have informed some of the most imaginative and terrifying imagery in cultural history” (Bendle, 2005). In the years before 9/11 the apocalypse movies, books and magazines have been a great and widely theme all around the world, people never seem to be bored seeing apocalypse movies. John Wallis and Kenneth G.C. Newport say “The topic of apocalyptic thought in popular culture is…

Iconic emblems recognizable from any part of the world on every corner, local street vendors in every cranny and a question on everyone’s mind; Where to eat? One individual would be drawn too the McDonald’s because the food is reliable while another would want to experience the culture and try the food at an intriguing food stall. The effect of globalized food is both highly supported and heavily rejected. Advocates emphasize sanitation, reliability, and amenities while opponents point out the…

While the previous chapter discussed popular culture and its influence from the functionalism approach, this chapter examines it from the critical approach. The structure of this approach came from the ideas that Marx’s provided; both the social and economic structure of a society are a reflection of its culture and symbolic imagery (47). Cultural hegemony emerges as a result of power through persuasiveness; since society is nearly controlled by the mass media due to the fact that it creates…

When people see things in pop culture they begin to make trends about things such as fashion and music. When the youth begins to see things like this in large presentation they may put it out as a popular thing to do, so it tends to spread. When we were introduced to the music, fashion, shows, movies, etc. we were being influenced by the many aspects of it all that changed society as a whole. When you think of Pop Culture you usually don’t think of…

involved with social justice, find instances of sexism in lyrics of popular songs when listening, and if reading the lyrics thereafter yields any instances of sexism they did not notice while listening. Research has…

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…

controlled personalities, celebrities’ profit off of market deals and product placements popularized because of their fame. The initial idea is to get the consumer to conform to the idea of who and how a person should be. In Marxist theory, these popular figures would be classified as the bourgeoisie and the consumers from society would be classified as proletariats. At the dawn of…