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Music 050 – Final Paper I am going to explore the issue of identity within producing music through ethnographic research with the Collctve. Specifically, how an artist syndicates his or her own taste with today 's popular culture to produce and play music and how this relates to “selling out.” Before delving into the complexities associated with the music industry, it is important to define the terms “identity” and “selling out.” These interpretations will set the foundation for the discussion.…

zombie metaphor creates an intellectual space unencumbered by preexisting political biases” (3). As a fictional construct in film and literature, any political assumptions on acceptable foreign policy strategies against a zombie outbreak… In popular culture, zombies are used to create a fictional lens in order to see the real problems of world. In Max Brooks’s novel World War Z, one is able to make sense of the anxieties of living in late-modern capitalist societies because of the focus on the…

commercial and political-engaged forms of pop culture in the society. East Asia, especially japan has rich cultural and in the recent past, they have incorporated this in the mainstream media as a way of promoting the contemporary cultures. The East Asian countries highly regard their culture and as such, they have made it an important aspect of their modern day technology. Thus, they have incorporated these cultural aspects in their media, thus promoting the culture among the people. Music and…

main difference in the way that the content is expressed, and that is cultural. White and black performers as well as audiences have always had contrasting differences between them, musically and socially, which is a discourse that is prominent in popular music. These issues stem from post-slavery and segregation in which the music of blacks and whites could not be acknowledged as overlapping although they have always influenced each other. Over the past fifty years, though, this…

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…

trending. We will start off in the 60’s where the emergence of hippie culture occurred. During the 1960’s The Cold War was happening and people were very tense and scared due to the threat of nuclear warfare. This tension lead to people trying to relax and be less worried, which allowed hippie culture to rapidly expand and become mainstream. The laid back nature of hippie…

As a major part of the 1980 phenomenon of eclectic pop culture, Oakley Frogskins stood tall as the leader of fashion sunglasses. As "The Terminator" made his way across the big screen in classic action scenes, the music industry was developing with the addition of rap and Oakley became the biggest manufacturer of sunglasses. But as the world was changing this pair of Frogskins crept into a world that had never experienced such a style before in the area of sunglasses. Now as the era of fashion…

change lives. It allows people the freedom to express themselves in ways that is normally not possible and thus making people more themselves which in turn changes a culture. There comes a time in every generation where a pop star icon emergis. A true pop icon will be someone who is very influential to the music industry and to the culture. This individual will also be someone who has the potential to go down in history as one of the greatest. Among the list of influential artists in our…

In pop culture, the sexuality of women are often depicted as a binary: either as a slut or a whore, or pure and innocent. Adelina Anthony’s and Margaret Cho’s performances challenge these representations with their comedic performances and being open with their sexuality. They disidentify with hegemonic cultural representations by working with and against dominant representations such as sexism and classism. They use humor such as sarcasm to make people see how absurd about people’s…

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the 1950’s. Pop art came out in Britain and The United States culture. The origin of the name “Pop art” is unknown but it’s often credited to a British art critic named “Lawrence Alloway”. In Lawrence Alloway’s essay titled “The Arts and Mass Media”, even though he would not exactly use the words “Pop” and “Art”, he was one of the high level critics to approve Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Characterized by bold, simple and everyday imagery and…