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It doesn’t help to be oversensitive, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid it. “Literary intellectuals love to sneer at polls and surveys,” writes Dominic Sandbrook in his determinedly informative and frequently entertaining attempt to analyse what makes British culture tick, “but historians cannot afford to do so.” The survey being putatively sneered at reveals the immense popularity of The Lord of the Rings; presumably the implications of that popularity, rather than the fact of it, which must…

communication (Jesús Martín-Barbero & Herlinghaus, 2000: 45). Therefore, Martín Barbero proposes a non-nostalgic approach to lo popular as not only practices and experiences opposite to mass culture, but as a collective memory that it is alive and not frozen in the past. According to Guillermo Sunkel, “the main Martín Barbero’s contribution in this field is proposing lo popular as an epistemological place from where is possible to thinking communication in Latin America” (Sunkel, 2008:…

“One dance” has received many awards this summer, and Billboard, a popular charting company has even named it the song of the summer. It has been number one on the chart for a consecutive 14 weeks. It keeps at No. 2 on the overall Streaming Songs chart (after leading the list two weeks ago) with 32.8 million U.S. streams (Trust 2016). This hit summer song was written by Drake, a Canadian rapper who had become extremely popular in the hip hop but also pop genre. He was…

has had thousands of years preserved underneath its streets. Archeologists and historians are working together to find out the story of this city, but often times the translation of academic findings to the rest of the world is not fulfilled. In popular culture today there are many gross interpretations of roman life that misguide the common consumer of information to get a terrible understanding of what roman life was like. There is a man though that is trying to change that and his name is…

The concepts that I will be discussing are: ethnocentrism, popular culture, attribution error, social interaction, and stereotypes. Ethnocentrism is “the belief that one’s own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of your own culture”, or in simpler…

Pop Art is a popular art movement that came from Britain in the mid 1950’s. It later came to the United States around the same time period. A lot of artists moved up into the pop art stage. For example Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton were artists from Britain. United States pop artists were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Pop art was often used back then in newspapers and magazines and advertising. This created a challenge to artists who used traditions of fine art because Pop art…

Therefore, it appeals to the general public, being a popular track on several hit radio stations. It won four Grammy Awards in 2011, including Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Best Country Song. The speakers talked about feeling lonely at night, and needing their partner. Although the sound of the music is not typical for popular music today, it does have the typical lovesick song, where two people love each…

For populations which are generally overrepresented in popular culture (such as straight, white, middle-clsas men), there isn’t as much of a need to stretch to connect the media seen to their lives. However, for other populations that have been ignored and systematically oppressed, meaning brings a new light…

country because it is the furthest a woman has ever gotten. There are several reasons as to why women are becoming more respected in our society, but the biggest influence is popular culture. Biological sex and gender…

being different. Those who grow up within the era create stories from their experiences, along what they are known for today. In the 1970s and 1980s of Japan, there was a spike of crime to bring forth a new dawn of malfeasance and influences to popular pop culture that we admire today. From the famous…