Music in Different Cultures Popular Music and Contemporary U.S. Culture Popular Music in its Many Facets In its broadest sense‚ popular music is an umbrella term referring to a vast range of commercially mass-marketed musical genres contrasting with classical or art music and intended for mass consumption (e.g.‚ rock‚ rock and roll‚ hip-hop‚ grunge‚ heavy metal‚ rhythm and blues‚ punk‚ soul‚ techno‚ funk‚ rap‚ house). This wide-ranging term encompasses a plethora
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Value of Popular Culture Jim and Pam got married‚ Ke$ha brushes her teeth with whiskey‚ and Lady Gaga ponders if we are actually born predisposed to be weird. No matter where you look‚ we are surrounded by pop culture. Popular culture is a sub-culture that is often mocked and scrutinized as not being meaningful or significant‚ pop culture is seen as what is considered “cool” at the moment in time‚ and carries no long-term effects on society or culture as a whole. Emile Durkheim once said “For
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Question – Define the concept of culture. Illustrate your answer with examples [8] ‘Culture’ is the ways in which a society lives. A culture may share the same religions‚ beliefs‚ values‚ class or status‚ a culture can dress in a certain way and act in a way that follows the norms of how their society carries out life and what they deem as acceptable‚ culture can shared by a large group of people or a smaller group within society. For example there are ‘subcultures’‚ a subculture is a small
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A dominant culture is one that is able through economic or political power‚ to impose its values‚ language and ways of behaving on a subordinate culture or cultures. This may be achieved by monopolizing the media and means of communication.¹ I would say the dominant culture in America is the pop culture. Pop culture influences the way we dress and even the way we talk. A lot of young people talk with slang words that their grandparents wouldn’t even understand. Pop culture affects everything
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Cherie Fanelle Introduction to Pop Culture 27 November 2013 Television Shows of the 1950’s and Mass Culture During the 1950s‚ the average American was an optimistic reflection of the traditional values of the times. Then as the world around them began to change‚ so did the types of television programming they were exposed to. The era of the 1950s was an extremely confusing time as America was trying to adjust to its new role as a competing superpower and still trying to maintain the strong foundation
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others insist that the world is worse because of globalization‚ and it could destroy the tradition values and cultures of other countries. This essay‚ however‚ argues that even though globalization has been expanding more and more‚ traditions‚ local values and cultures will not be eroded. First of all‚ new ideas from other countries which are obtained via globalization will enrich local cultures. Secondly‚ a large variety of product will be brought to other countries‚ which encourages product diversity
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Pop Culture Speech Most of us have heard of the concept “imperialism‚” defined as the practice of one country extending its powers over the territory‚ political system or economic life of another country. Yet‚ we would never imagine that imperialism could affect us in this lucky country‚ especially in the form of popular culture. Never would we even conjecture the overall harmful motives of the dominating superpower‚ after all it assumedly is the ‘protector of democracy and human rights.’ But
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Impact of Mass Media on Enculturation The mass media and culture go hand and hand in today ’s society. The American culture thrives on the Mass media and this has become American culture today. “Mass media is any medium used to transmit mass communication. Until recently mass media was clearly defined and was comprised of the eight mass media industries; books‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ recordings‚ radio‚ movies‚ television and the Internet (Lane‚ 2007).” The mas media is no longer simple to define
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Abstract Western pop culture has been a phenomenon that it has influenced every aspect of society. In this paper I looked into how it has affected a third world country such as the Philippines‚ how pop culture has changed the country and its people. I find that some of the changes were for the better and some changes had a negative impact. Influences of Western Pop Culture Culture and traditions are significant in countries like Philippines‚ which has always cherished its rich heritage and
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Pop culture is transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Pop culture can be expressed through many different ways such as fashion‚ music‚ television‚ movies‚ cars and sports. Pop culture was targeted at teens for many reasons. These reasons were that teens cared how they appeared and were influenced by the images and looks. After World War 2 finished‚ improvements to entertainment started to happen this gave people more ideas and new trends. To understand pop culture
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