PDF-(READ)-An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power

What is popular culture Why study popular culture in an academic context An Introduction to US Popular Culture People Politics and Power introduces and explores the history and contemporary analysis of popular culture in the United States In situating popular culture as lived experience through the activities objects and distractions of everyday life the authors work to broaden the understanding of culture beyond a focus solely on media texts taking an interdisciplinary approach to analyze American culture its rituals beliefs and the objects that shape its existence After building a foundation of the history of popular culture as an academic discipline the book looks broadly at cultural myths and the institutional structures genres industries and people that shape the mindset of popular culture in the United States It then becomes more focused with an examination of identity exploring the ways in which these myths and mindset are internalized practiced and shaped by individuals The book concludes by connecting the broad understanding of popular culture and the unique individual experience with chapters dedicated to the objects communities and celebrations of everyday life This approach to the field of study explores all matters of culture in a way that is accessible and relevant to individuals in and outside of the classroom. Introduction to Women. ’. s Studies. Robert Wonser. Gender and the Media. According to the . reflection hypothesis . the media only give the public what it expects, wants, or demands. . In other words, the media content mirrors the behaviors and relationships, and values and norms most prevalent in society.. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.. Field . Note: . Preserving Culture. “. “The signs with the Tata Corporation’s logo were everywhere on the landscape of the city of . C4K4. Objectives. 1) Threat to Folk Culture.. 2) Environmental Impact of Popular Culture. How . MDC’s. threaten LCD’s Culture. Rise in incomes = rise in demand of. Western products. . Loss of Traditional Values: may turn away from traditional material culture of food, clothing, and shelter. Why?. Four Approaches. Pre-popular culture. “The highly instructed few, and not the scantily clad many, will ever be the organ to the human race of knowledge and truth. Knowledge and truth . . . are not attainable by the great mass of the human race at all. Objectives. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Electronic Diffusion of Popular . Culture. Underlining thread to popular culture is CONSUMPTION.. Diffusion of Popular Housing, Clothing, and Food. Making History Block 4: 1979 and all that. Questions. What happens to the question of 1979 as a turning point if we think about the politics of identity?. Can we trace this history through analysis of popular culture, and here in particular music? And does the emergence of punk in the late 1970s represent a crisis and turning point in this regard?. Building and Staging Politics: Livy and Augustus. Kennedy’s ‘. Augustan and Anti-Augustan…. ’. What . are the problems associated with discussing the ‘. politics. ’ of ancient literature. Culture Diffused?. Chapter 4 Section 3 Text pages 109-117. How are hearths of . popular . culture traits established?. Typically begins with an idea/good and contagious diffusion which move to hierarchical diffusion.. . Read pg. 108 in book. Culture and Customs. People living in other locations often have extremely different social customs. . Geographers ask why such differences exist and how social customs are related to the cultural landscape.. 1. PURPOSe of the series. What . we won’t be doing. …. 1. PURPOSe of the series. What we will be doing. …. 2. A few ground rules. 3. My Motivation . 3. My Motivation . A . pastoral. motivation. Historian’s Toolkit . Block . 1: . 1979 and all that. Questions. What happens to the question of 1979 as a turning point if we think about the politics of identity?. Can we trace this history through analysis of popular culture, and here in particular music? And does the emergence of punk in the late 1970s represent a crisis and turning point in this regard?. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.. Key Question. What are local and popular cultures? . © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.. A . culture . is a group of belief systems, norms, . Popular Culture and Cultural LandscapesCultural SystemsOur daily lives make up our cultural systemsWhat we eat when we eat and how we eat is an example of cultural differencesSome Asian cultures eat w Table of Contents. Introduction: Capturing Web 2.0 Before its Disappearance. Psychopathology of Information Overload . Facebook, Anonymity and the Crisis of the Multiple Self . Treatise on Comment Culture .