Pop Culture Review

Vocabulary flashcards for reviewing key concepts in pop culture.

Internet

Digitizing analog information for broad, simultaneous interaction

Mythologization

Advertising using unconscious archetypal motifs

Music by eminent composers

Classical

Movable type

Invention enabling secular information dissemination

Rock

Music encompassing all styles including grunge and punk

Credited with developing electronic transmitters

Guglielmo Marconi

Kenkoy

First four-frame comic strip in the Philippines

Radio

Information dissemination via airwaves through transistor devices

Music

Art using melodic sound combinations for aesthetic and emotional expression

Aesthecitization

Advertising using bizarre imagery and juxtaposition

Nikola Tesla

American radio operator, first to transmit radio in the country, 1895

Electronic

Music incorporating electronic effects and digital instruments

Country

Music genre with prominent rural themes and simple life

Printed Media

Information disseminated through printed materials directing attention to a product

Easy Listening

Music blending classics, light opera, and soft rock

Borrowing

Swardspeak using 'kyowti' and 'giftsung'

Frank Sinatra

Jazz and blues icon NOT considered to be one

Scripted delivery

Characteristic NOT associated with virality

Carrie Underwood

Icon of eclectic pop music NOT typically considered as such

Dead

Term NOT considered an example of Filipino slang

John Lennon

Icon of country music NOT typically considered as such

Jaya

Icon of rhythm and blues music NOT typically considered as such

Mervin Claye

Icon of rock music NOT typically considered as such

A Man Called Otto

Film NOT a documentary

Ring

Term NOT used by Twitter (now X) Users

Zamboanga

Film NOT a part of the first films shown in the country

Richard Wagner

Icon of folk music NOT typically considered as such

Borrowing

Swardspeak form using 'kyowti' and 'giftsung'