A Broadway musical that helped turn a sexually suggestive dance called the Charleston into a craze for the young (and the young at heart) throughout the nation.
Running Wild
A sexually suggestive dance
Charleston
In 2002, this movie skillfully captured contrasting social moods
Chicago
The 1920 came to be called what?
TheRoaringTwenties
It was the decade when pop culture, as we now call it, crystallized as a new form of recreational lifestyle and a huge business enterprise as well.
RoaringTwenties
Anthropologists would define this as a means of organizing and stabilizing communal life and everyday activities through specific beliefs, rituals, rites, performances, art forms, symbols, language, clothing, food, music, dance, and other human expressive, intellectual, and communicative pursuits and faculties that are associated with a group of people at a particular period of time.
Culture
considered to include forms that have a more profound import on human life than low culture, which is seen as simply recreational and perhaps even base or profane
High Culture
it is a system of symbolic and expressive structures that a particular group of people develops and utilizes to enhance solidarity, understanding, and transmission of knowledge.
Culture
claimed that culture shapes how people perceive reality
FranzBoas
This shows that culture shapes how people perceive reality
Culturalrelativism
sought to determine the extent to which the language of a culture shaped the thought patterns of its users.
Edward Sapir
wanted to unravel how child-rearing practices influenced the behavior and temperament of individuals
MargaretMead
argued that every culture developed its own canons of morality and lifestyle that largely dictated how individuals viewed themselves and the world.
RuthBenedict
By the time children can talk, Benedict suggested, they have become __________—its habits are their habits; its beliefs are their beliefs; its challenges are their challenges.
Creaturesoftheirculture
contended that cultures originated to provide group-based solutions to physical and moral problems.
BronislawMalinowski
showed that even an emotional response like weeping constitutes a culturally based strategy.
AlfredRadcliffe-Brown
it arises from new trends and needs, constantly revising itself according to mass opinions and tastes.
pop culture
“How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?”
Stephen Sondheim
saw the American and European forms of popular culture that had spread broadly in the 1940s and 1950s as a “bastard form of mass culture” beset by “humiliated repetition” and thus by “new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning”
Roland Barthes
Pop culture takes place in a marketplace that is at once economic and artistic, thus appearing in short-lived and era-specific forms, making it a what?
Commodity culture
This took shape in the 1950s and 1960s
Pop art movement
represented scenes and objects from within mass consumerist culture, sometimes with actual consumer products (soup cans, comic books, detergents, and the like) as props in their sculptures.
Pop artists
The movement began as a reaction against expressionism, an art movement of the early to mid-twentieth century that emphasized emotional and distorted perception rather than the realistic representation of objects.
pop art movement
improvised spectacles or performances of their artworks for anyone, not just art gallery patrons.
Happenings
Among the leaders of the pop art movement was
AndyWarhol
whose paintings and silk-screen prints emblematized the whole movement, as did his famous (some would say infamous) portrait of thirty-two Campbell’s soup cans, painted in 1962?
AndyWarhol
What is the famous painting of Andy Warhol?
32Campbell’ssoupcans
abandoned individual, titled paintings in favor of series of works depicting the same object over and over, mirroring the manufacturing process of replicated objects.
Popartists
saw commercial culture as representative of the modern world and thus sought to express its forms and structures in sculptures and paintings.
popartmovement
implies art and culture considered of superior value, socially, aesthetically, and historically
Highculture
implies culture considered of inferior value.
Lowculture
Low culture is often applied to?
Popculture
Because of this mix of “____” and “___,” pop culture has itself been instrumental in blurring, if not obliterating, the distinction between levels of culture historically associated with class structure.
Highandlow
Era when artists, writers, and musicians were breaking away from the artificial demands of the authoritative segments of society (the Church and the aristocracy) to produce works acceptable to them as the keepers of good taste.
Romanticeraofthe19th century
they aptly point out, pop culture is popular because it consists of “what the people make, or do, for themselves.
OBrien and Szeman
has perceptively observed, pop culture is something that appeals to us instinctively because “no matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.”
MilanKundera
Time magazine, Chanel perfumes, Frontline (PBS), Psychology today magazine, the Discovery channel, New York Times, National Public Radio, Huffington Post
Examplesofhighculture
Daily newspapers, Harry Potter Series, jazz, rock, rap, YouTube videos, self-help manuals
Examples of Midculture
Tabloids, Howard Stern radio, infomercials, the Kardashians, erotic movies (Hangover series, Jerry Springer), internet memes
Examplesoflowculture
might contain references to writers and philosophers locatable at the top echelon of traditional high culture, as well as references to ephemeral trends, such as blockbuster movies.