Review Questions 1. What is popular music? Popular music is any music since the mid-1800s that is popular with the preferences of anyone from a teen to a mid-aged adult. 2. What theme does pop music typically use in the lyrics? Describe one pop song that uses this theme. Why is this theme such a popular one? Pop music typically uses the theme of love and relationships in the lyrics. One pop song that uses this theme is the song “Marry Me” by Jason Derulo. Some of the lyrics are “…And if I
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NEWS MEDIA CONSUMPTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY Stylianos Papathanassopoulos‚ National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Sharon Coen‚ Salford University James Curran‚ Goldsmiths‚ University of London Toril Aalberg‚ Norwegian University of Science and Technology David Rowe‚ University of Western Sydney Paul Jones‚ University of New South Wales Hernando Rojas‚ University of Wisconsin-Madison Rod Tiffen‚ University of Sydney Abstract As news media change‚ so it is apparent that media news
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be exploring popular culture and‚ sub-culture. Popular culture is associated with shallow activities enjoyed and accesses by the masses‚ it serves a large role in society as it unites the masses‚ and creates a sense of identity for individuals as they become a part of a greater society‚ it provides both happiness for a person and communal bonding. There are many elements that add to Popular culture‚ Strinati (1995) argues that the media are largely responsible for creating popular culture as we
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increase in expression of popular piety became prevalent at the end of the 11th century during the call for the first crusade by Pope Urban II. Popular piety refers to seeking a closer more personal relationship with God that was based off of emotion and love. This emotive Christianity reflected a shift in the attitudes of medieval society that were continuing to change due to other historical factors happening from the 12th through 15th centuries. The growth of popular piety‚ the ongoing threat
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What is popular (low) culture? "Popular culture is a symbolic expression allegedly aligned with the questionable tastes of the "masses‚" who enjoy commercial "junk" circulated by the mass media‚ such as soap operas‚ rock music‚ talk radio‚ comic books‚ and monster truck pulls" (Campbell‚ 18). When looking at the high-low hierarchy it often determines the way people view culture as a whole today‚ saying high culture is good taste and low culture is questionable taste. Many audiences take for granted
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Young people want to be popular and fit in‚ and if fitting in means drinking or using drugs‚ they are going to do it. After a few parties‚ and a few nights out at a friend’s house‚young people start to get addicted to drugs and alcohol and their life begins to fall apart. Being popular is a goal that all teenagers want to achieve. There’s nothing like sitting at the popular lunch table or knowing all of the football and basketball players. Being popular also means that you have
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Popular Culture Under the concept of popular culture that is discussed in the texts of Martin & Nakayama‚ the populist is seen in forms of borrowing or mixing of other cultures. Popular is created and maintained not only through mass consumption‚ but by the active process of generating and circulating meanings and pleasures within a social group (2011‚ pg.202). It’s everywhere and it fills my life. Even though I was raised a certain way according to my parents culture and beliefs‚ but I was
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is like writing 5 stories in one‚ because the writer leaves gaps in the story that the reader will subconsciously fill in. Because of that the story will be very different from one reader’s perspective to the next. In Raymond Carver’s short story "Popular Mechanics‚" there is no clear ending. He also makes the story pretty vague by leaving out quotation marks‚ not telling the reader who is saying what‚ giving no background‚ and only allowing each character to say a few words at a time. The story as
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1 W h a t is Popular Culture? - - - aus: STOREY‚ John: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. London e al. (PearsonlPrenUce Hall) 2001 t I Before we consider in detail the different ways in which popular culture has been defined and analyzed‚ I want to outline some of the general features of the debate which the study of popular culture has generated. It is not my intention to pre-empt the specific findings and arguments which will be presented in the following chapters. Here I simply
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an important privilege‚ some Americans choose not to vote and the government is now trying to make voting mandatory for people to vote and I am in opposition to that. So many uneducated voters will vote‚ its considered taking our freedom away‚ and we really don’t need to worry as much about voting as about education. One objection to this argument is that the disadvantaged‚ the poor‚ the unemployed‚ and the uneducated are less likely to vote than then the other groups. We need to worry about whether
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