PPC Chapter 1 (everything else)
Cards (107)
- 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.
- A sexually suggestive dance
- In 2002, this movie skillfully captured contrasting social moods
- The 1920 came to be called what?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- claimed that culture shapes how people perceive reality
- This shows that culture shapes how people perceive reality
- sought to determine the extent to which the language of a culture shaped the thought patterns of its users.
- wanted to unravel how child-rearing practices influenced the behavior and temperament of individuals
- argued that every culture developed its own canons of morality and lifestyle that largely dictated how individuals viewed themselves and the world.
- 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.
- contended that cultures originated to provide group-based solutions to physical and moral problems.
- showed that even an emotional response like weeping constitutes a culturally based strategy.
- it arises from new trends and needs, constantly revising itself according to mass opinions and tastes.
- “How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?”
- 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”
- 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?
- This took shape in the 1950s and 1960s
- 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.
- 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.
- improvised spectacles or performances of their artworks for anyone, not just art gallery patrons.
- Among the leaders of the pop art movement was
- 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?
- What is the famous painting of Andy Warhol?
- abandoned individual, titled paintings in favor of series of works depicting the same object over and over, mirroring the manufacturing process of replicated objects.
- saw commercial culture as representative of the modern world and thus sought to express its forms and structures in sculptures and paintings.
- implies art and culture considered of superior value, socially, aesthetically, and historically
- implies culture considered of inferior value.
- Low culture is often applied to?
- 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.
- 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.
- they aptly point out, pop culture is popular because it consists of “what the people make, or do, for themselves.
- 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.”
- Time magazine, Chanel perfumes, Frontline (PBS), Psychology today magazine, the Discovery channel, New York Times, National Public Radio, Huffington Post
- Daily newspapers, Harry Potter Series, jazz, rock, rap, YouTube videos, self-help manuals
- Tabloids, Howard Stern radio, infomercials, the Kardashians, erotic movies (Hangover series, Jerry Springer), internet memes
- 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.