pop culture quiz 2

Dick Hebdige

Subcultures are a play for attention and refuse once attention is given; subcultures as interference; style having meaning (clothespin)

Punk Culture

oppositional against politics media, and commercial culture

subculture

organized, oppositional, significance of style

bricolage

repurposing with a transformation of meaning

rasquachismo

something thats tacky and cheap but now is creativity in the face of adversity

culture industry 

Tv, Music, Movies; corporation that makes movies 

standardization

things tend to become the same or have the same standard; songs all having the same chords

pseudo-individualism

the illusion of identity within standardized products and media

pitfalls of thinking about production 

diminishes the value of the product, sees commercial culture as exploitative 

postfeminism

acknowledges feminist gains and goals, subscribed to a particular vision of empowerment predicated on the affirmation of personal choices and self-reliance 

feminism

women deserve rights, movement to gain those rights

riot grrls

all women punk band reclaiming punk

girlhood

girls not seen as complex beings but consumers

adultification

young black girls being treated as adults and more responsible than white counterparts 

girl power

showing girls with agency and power within gender norms, such as gentleness