Culture and media. Thoughts on pop. culture in the U.S.
Popular Culture
Popular culture is defined here as popular written literature and broadcasting,
popular music, consumer products (everything from trash compacters to
video games, from cars to religious videos), popular dance and theater, video
games, certain decorative arts, sports and recreation, and other cultural
aspects of social life distinguished by their broad-based presence across
ethnic, social, and regional groupings.
For students of popular culture, books and magazines are important, as are
music and recorded sound, …
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original American culture and landing in this interstitial space. Being
American, I know how these American cultural items appear in America, and
what they mean there. At the same time, being here allows me to see the
slippage, the differences in how the same items are located, used, rejected,
and altered in another culture. The concept of hegemony is quite complicated
and the more I inspect those interstitial spaces, the more problematic they
appear.
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