Popular Culture WHAT? || Literature and Popular Culture
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Popular culture encompasses attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, and practices defining a society's people historically, embodying broadly shared meanings through practices, beliefs, and objects, shaping collective identity and evolving from the people, a site of struggle intertwined with high culture.
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- Popular culture encompasses attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, customs, and tastes that historically define a society's people, according to Ray Brown and Dustin Kidd, emphasizing shared meanings through practices, beliefs, and objects.
- Tim Delaney and Oxford Reference further elaborate on popular culture, viewing it as the prevailing vernacular culture at a specific time, encompassing media for mass audiences, everyday life artifacts, audience engagement, and the shaping of collective identity, emphasizing its evolution from the people and its intertwined nature with high culture.
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Recent questions
What is the definition of popular culture?
Popular culture encompasses attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, customs, and tastes defining a society's people historically.
How does Dustin Kidd define popular culture?
Dustin Kidd defines popular culture as embodying broadly shared meanings through practices, beliefs, and objects.
According to Tim Delaney, what is popular culture?
Tim Delaney views popular culture as the prevailing vernacular culture in a society at a specific time.
What are the four definitions of popular culture by Oxford Reference?
Oxford Reference defines popular culture as media for mass audiences, everyday life artifacts, audience engagement, and media shaping collective identity.
How does John Storey define popular culture?
John Storey defines popular culture as widely favored culture, leftover after high culture, mass culture, originating from the people, a site of struggle, and no longer distinct from high culture.
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Understanding the Complexity of Popular Culture
- Popular culture's definition is complex due to the varied meanings of "popular" and "culture," requiring operationalization.
- Ray Brown defines pop culture as attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, customs, and tastes defining a society's people historically.
- Dustin Kidd's definition aligns, stating pop culture embodies broadly shared meanings through practices, beliefs, and objects.
- Tim Delaney views popular culture as the prevailing vernacular culture in a society at a specific time.
- Oxford Reference offers four definitions, including pop culture as media for mass audiences, everyday life artifacts, audience engagement, and media shaping collective identity.
- John Storey defines popular culture as widely favored culture, leftover after high culture, mass culture, originating from the people, a site of struggle, and no longer distinct from high culture.
