What is Popular Culture?

Popular culture is the term that once characterized mass-produced or slow-growing cultures. Music Pop Cauldron is a huge tempo charge. Films, comics, commercials, radio and television. His audience was the crowd. Popular His culture was juxtaposed with hyper forms such as anarchy, opera, visual arts, classical music, traditional theater and literature. These were areas of the wealthy and educated class.

Today, the lines between high culture and pop culture are blurring. Pop culture is often at the forefront of what becomes mainstream culture. His artist Jean-Michael Bousquet, for example, is now considered one of the leading figures in contemporary art.

Popular culture is moving through our world at warp speed.

We are currently doing remixes of rap music and mashup samples and will pass the album. Morning celebrity gossip is the evening talk show host's monologue. Home In his video was posted online and overnight became a cultural phenomenon and quickly forgotten**. Albums and movies** are shared on peer-to-peer networks months before their official release.

• What does this attack conversation information mean?

• Most people today recognize that popular culture asks the same questions as high culture. I won't say anything new. Does it tell us anything about ourselves?

• Popular culture also raises new questions. What is pop Should pop culture honor its roots?

• What is the relationship between pop culture, politics and commerce?

• Do commercial interests determine what is available to the public?

• What does it tell you what's hot and what's not?

The selections in this chapter refer to the media you have access to. Listen to music, watch movies and TV shows, and check out art. The rain of connections in this chapter inspires conversations between the past and the present. Join us in this conversation to think both and imagine the future.

Seeing Connections

The Book of Rhymes

The poetics of Hip Hop by Adam Bradley

RapRap is a public art, and rappers are perhaps our greatest public poets, extending a tradition of liquorism that spans continent and stretches back thousands of years. Thanks to the engine of global commerce, rap is now the most widely decimated poetry in the history of the world. Of course, not all rap is great poetry, but collectively, it has revolutionized the way our culture relates to the spoken world. Rappers at their best make the familiar unfamiliar through rhythm, rhyme and word play. They refreshed language by fashioning pattern and heightened variations of everyday speech. The expander understanding of human experiences by telling stories we might not otherwise hear. The best telling em sees like vacuum jay-z to pack and many others deserve consideration alongside the giant of American poetry. We. Or the matter own expense. I believe that we are living in perhaps the most vital. that hip hop has ever seen. That's not to say that rap music has gotten better into what many consider its golden age from the mid 1890s to the mid 1990s. Only that rats creative potential has never been more apparent. More people from more places are making more kinds of rap music than any other time in history. There's something so durable about the structure of word wrapped to a beat, something inclusive that research any attempts to enforce some narrow orthodoxy or to keep certain people out, be they from another borrow or coast, another gender or sexual orientation, another race or life experience. Rap is free to all those willing to assume the heavy burden of mastering its craft.

Seeing Connections

Contemporary artist Carrie James Marshall completed this painting entitled past times in 1997. Composed with acrylic paint on on stretch canvas and measuring nine and a half feet by 13 feet. It is truly larger than life. The title can be read as a play on the idea of leisurely American pastimes and a reference to both American history and the. And the history of finer. Indeed, the images and homepage to George Sirrat Sunday afternoon in the island of the Grand Jattis, an iconic 1984 pointless painting that shows similar seeing in the partisan park. In the foreground of the pastimes, bit of music emerged from 2 boom boxes. The emptation saying it was my imagination running away with me. And Snoop Dogg racks his famous lyrics. Got my mind on my money and my money on my mind.

What connections does this painting make between rap and African experience? How does it address some of the cultural issues and benchmarks that make bride focuses on the hip hop planet?

Analyzing Popular Culture

When analyzing popular culture, you can make connections and ask many questions.

• Read the pattern of the element and try to identify if it's a problem and solution, cause an effect, narration, definition or comparison and contrast.

• Try and find the purpose of the paragraphs. And try to see what the author is trying to do, whether it identifies something, introduce something or qualify a thesis.

• Look for figurative language analogy sentence fragment expert testimony and object reporting in the passages.

• Look and analyze quotes and try to determine the meaning of them.

• Read introduction and conclusion sentences and paragraphs to get a better understanding of the topic being described.