What is popular culture / culture?
- Mass culture
- cultural studies and critical theory
- culture as ideology
- social function of popular culture.
What is culture?
general process of intellectual spiritual and aesthetic development of a particular society at a particular time.
a particular way of life.
works of intellectual and especially artistic significance.
The process of intellectual development. A way of living - sub culture - CFGVHBJKL and values.
Culture can be used to describe a cannon of art or literature - considered as being really important. who decided what is so important that they represent culture?
Based on marx's concept of base superstructure.
Culture and ideology emerges because of society.
Political conflict.
Raymond Williams 1983 'keywords'
Popular
- well liked by many people - dr who.. when thinking about popular culture.
- inferior kinds of work. - work that is mass produced. works that aspire to be important but have failed.
- work deliberately setting out to win favour with the people
- culture actually made by the people themselves.
- about someone making a value judgement. you need a taste maker to decided what is good or bad. this comes into ideology.. making a subjective judgement.
- something that aims to be understood by everyone. work that is obscure is seen as more important. work that is understood by everyone is seen as being less important.
- made by the people for the people. working class popular culture - brass bands. symbolises them and their identity.
The one you decide with depends on your place in society. political.
(slide with paintings...... sea and sky)
high culture and popular culture.
inferior or residual culture.
popular press vs quality press - diff content.. and ideas. who are they aimed at?
popular cinema vs art cinema
popular entertainment vs art culture
latter is about the elite society.
Jeremy Deller - folk archive. looking for authentic popular culture. made by people for the people. those that fall out of the traditional concept of art. displayed in the tate. you laugh - why are you laughing.. you're laughing because they look crap. you think you could do better. we are coded in a way about what is correct and what isnt correct. institutional ideas..
making judgements by your own codes is flawed..
popular culture. ira - starved himself to death.
Graffiti in south bronx.
banksy - covent garden
- does that change graffiti just because it is put in a gallery? gone from something so simple to being something that is bought and sold. start by representing people but then ends up being bought by one person so its not for the community anymore.
dynamic between culture and what is popular culture..
E.P Thompson. working class / proletrariat.
1963.
industrialisation and urbanisation. people are condensed together but also physically separated. working class are put together but actually separated from the upper class.
working class moved into slums - all they can afford.
upper class move to the nicer areas of the city.
physical distinction between the rich and the poor. separation created a cultural separation. working class start to author their own culture.. own cultural activities. the working class in pubs.. upper class sitting at home sipping nice wine. two voices competing against each other. shift in politics as well. workers movement - campaign for working class to have a vote so they can have a say. putting people together makes them realise how their culture should be formed.
Matthew Arnold - 1867. culture & anarchy.
about culture as a disiplin as its self.
culture is the best that has been thought and said in the world
study of perfection
attained through disinterested reading writing and thinking
the pursuit of culture
anything that has a agenda isnt really culture. one gains culture through the pursuit of culture.
diseased spirit of our times.
emerging working class culture. have its own voice. the raw and uncultivated masses.
control of the upper class culture is threatened by the working class culture.
Leavisism - f.r leavis. & q.d leavis.
mass civilisation and minority culture
fiction and the reading public
culture and environment
cultural decline. culture has always been in minority keeping. defend culture against the rise of less important forms of culture.
collapse of traditional authority comes at the same time as the mass democracy. anarchy.
Frankfurt school - critical theory.
institue of social research. closed down when nazis came to power. they were marxist thinkers.
when they went to america from germany - the popular culture was far more developed.
Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
reinterpretated marx for the 20th century. era of late capitalism.
defined the culture industry.
Fordism. 1910. mass production.
all mass culture is identical.
as soon as the film begins it is quiet clear how it will end and who will be rewarded punished or forgotten.
Frankfurt school..
herbert marcuse.
popular culture v affirmative culture.
one dimensional man. 1968
dont have a free and independent thought. you act in the way you see you should act. think about the world in one way.
products of the contemporary. culture industry.
hollyoaks. ahahahhahahahahhaha.
big brother / x factor
adorno - one popular music.
authentic culture vs mass culture
qualities of authentic culture
real
european
multi dimensional
active consumption
individual creation
imagination
negation
Walter Benjamin.
the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
1936
what happens to the status of the mona lisa when it can be reproduced? re defines culture.
Popular culture (commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes,[1] images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informalconsensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.
Popular culture is often viewed as being trivial and dumbed-down in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, and corrupted.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
The term "popular culture" was coined in the 19th century or earlier[11] to refer to the education and general "culturedness" of the lower classes, as was delivered in an address at theBirmingham Town Hall, England.[12] The term began to assume the meaning of a culture of the lower classes separate from (and sometimes opposed to) "true education" towards the end of the century,[13] a usage that became established by the interbellum period.[14] The current meaning of the term, culture for mass consumption, especially originating in the United States, is established by the end of World War II.[15] The abbreviated form "pop culture" dates to the 1960s.[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture
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