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	Cultural icon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cultural icon is a notable individual who has transcended "mere" celebrity to come to represent a given Zeitgeist to a sizable part of civilization.
		As such, a cultural icon is not simply a famous face but a complex, multi-layered personage who reflects the conflicts and contradictions of his or her time.
		Cultural icons are often labeled as such by others whereas cultural heroes often earn such a title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_icon (248 words)

	Jonathan Bykowski--Fall 2001
		Cultural icons are those aspects of a culture seen as representative of it by people of a different culture.
		Cultural icons are becoming a favorite means to express nationalism in the light of a growing homogenization among people.
		A cultural icon could be a monument such as the White House in America, or a dance such as the American Indian Ghost Dance, or a costume such as the Iranian Chador.
	faculty.philau.edu /l911/bykowski.htm (5177 words)

	Cultural Icon
		She is a "fictive icon," contributing "to a culture by letting members act as if something is real or true even while they 'know' it is not" (Rogers, 1999: 3).
		She is also a "fantastic icon," in that her presence in American culture extends and embellishes what is actual, possible, or concievable.
		cultural icon as "a peice of culture - a cultural object that exemplifies some set of values, beliefs, and norms in society - gets a strong grip on a sizable part of the population" (1999, 6).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~ug02/sund/dreamgirl/icon.html (550 words)

	Lesson Plans - Cultural Icons: Voices of their Nations
		Students will explore the definition of "cultural icon" and study at least one cultural leader and his or her part of the world in detail.
		study in depth one cultural leader, locate the areas he or she influenced on a world map, and discuss whether or not he or she should be considered an icon.
		Have students explore different definitions of the phrase "cultural icon." Write down on a large piece of paper or poster board key ideas they have about what a cultural icon is and keep the list for later.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/03/g912/tgcultural.html (1004 words)

	Constructing a Cultural Icon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In confronting highly recognizable cultural icons, our experience is shaped by our efforts to compare what we have before us with our previous conception of the object, to locate variations, and to register our satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the new presentation.
		A cultural icon is what Walker Percy calls a “preformed symbolic complex” in his essay “The Loss of the Creature” (513).
		When it comes to instantly recognizable icons like Joan, it is clear that her “represented qualities” had become overbearing and distorted by 1925; hence the appeal of what seemed to be so “real” about Shaw’s heroine.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/md/433/cultural2.html (7257 words)

	NBA.com: Michael Jordan Career Retrospective
		In a culture with an inexhaustible passion to rank, to quantify, to compare and contrast everything, Michael Jordan became the universal measuring device for appraising greatness.
		Jordan the athlete, as well as cultural icon, had such an effect on global society that descriptions of standout athletes in other sports, as well as top artists, business executives and elite achievers in any field, began with: "He/she is the Michael Jordan of...
		Cultural anthropologists will divine many explanations, and a few lamentations, for the spread of this seed, but there is no argument that the distribution was breathtaking.
	www.nba.com /jordan/jordan_icon_thiel.html (2123 words)

	French Cultural Iconography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To a limited extent, a cultural icon is like the literary synecdoque, where a part represents the whole.
		I have included some quite modern cultural icons, even though there is a risk they may evolve away from that status, as did the "2CV" automobile.
		To be sure, this index is at the shallow end of cultural history, but I believe it can be an effective tool for students and scholars of the discipline, as a point of departure into the many questions of how we view a national culture.
	globegate.utm.edu /french/globegate_mirror/fricon.html (381 words)

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		ICON is the ultimate place for fans to have access to information about Madonna’s record career, film projects, photo sessions, tour news and much more!
		ICON Magazine is sent out 4 times a year to all fan club members.
		It's been described as "an archival collectible piece that's nicer than most magazines." The high-quality colorful pages are filled with text and images that befit a cultural icon.
	www.icon.musictoday.com (227 words)

	The Art of the Motorcycle - A cultural icon. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Guggenheim has recognized the special significance of the motorcycle to the 20th century, and BMW supports the investigation of the motorcycle as an important cultural artifact.
		At the time, BMW was already fascinated by the idea of a conceptual transformation of the motorcycle: No longer merely a two-wheeler with a combustion engine; not just a machine or an industrial product; nor merely something that fills the gap between automobile and bicycle.
		Rather, the motorcycle was clearly becoming an icon of contemporary culture.
	www.bmw-motorrad.com /com/en/specials/guggenheim/ausstellung/idee.html (136 words)

	icon - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		THE RESURRECTION AND THE ICON by MYROSLAW I. By Michel Quenot.
		Using a Cultural Icon to Explore a Peoples Heart by Delilah...Heart," is an exploration of a cultural icon that reveals the syncretic aspects of my...Baroque Sacred Heart in the Americas is an icon that resulted from an encounter between...
		Icon immersion; Greek church shows Orthodox exhibit Byline...you want to get close to God you have to be quiet," says icon collector Daniel Callahan of Washington, who has been gathering...Sheba, who brought the ark of the covenant to Ethiopia.
	www.questia.com /search/icon (1807 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Is Jack Sparrow a Cultural Icon?
		With the Academy Awards show approaching, it needed to be asked, keeping in mind that being a cultural icon doesn't necessarily help you at the Oscars.
		He is. Whether you thought the movie was great or so/so or whether you thought his role was frikken awesome or way overrated, he is a cultural icon.
		He's most deffinitely a cultural icon as he should be.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=310735 (954 words)

	Honolulu's Chinatown - Chinese Lanterns, A Cultural Icon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Banned during the Cultural Revolution, today they have resumed their place as honored guests at ceremonies and festivals.
		The end of the Cultural Revolution was a time of great celebration, and numerous yearly festivals, once strictly forbidden, returned with a vengeance.
		And yet neither the invention of electricity nor the reins of the Cultural Revolution could extinguish the enduring symbols of good fortune and prosperity as it flickers and survives another century of Chinese history.
	www.chinatownhi.com /lanterns.asp (817 words)

	What defines a 'cultural icon'? Choose any cultural icon and write an essay on its (or 'his' or 'her') place and ...
		Choose any cultural icon and write an essay on its (or 'his' or 'her') place and significance in culture at large.
		He decided that this was the perhaps hardest and longest way to social change, but the most effective and longer lasting.
		One of the main reasons why King Jr, is seen as a cultural icon, is because he managed to stand up to the oppressors in his life and change laws and people's thoughts without the use of violence.
	www.coursework.info /i/73404.html (531 words)

	World Wide Woolf, Brenda Silver
		And as a result, Woolf is a useful guide for cultural critics: the fears we've ascribed to her tell us a lot about our own fears--about gender, race, feminism art, politics, anger, fashion.
		In this sense she enacts the cross-overs among contemporary meanings of icon itself: a revered symbol, a sign that stands for something else, a superstar or idol, and the small symbolic picture on your computer screen that you click on to make a move.
		The most extensive "plate" on Virginia Woolf (1997), which includes three photographs of the player, informs us that she is not only "another icon of the modern and postmodern belief that madness and art are inextricably linked," but that she "remains a potent figure today.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/757463.html (1929 words)

	Hunting is top cultural icon - Horse&Hound Online
		Foxhunting could top a government poll to find England's greatest cultural icon, despite last February's ban.
		Icons: A Portrait of England is a new scheme designed to paint a virtual portrait of the country by exploring the most cherished items of English culture online.
		The directors had drawn up a list of 12 icon suggestions including Stonehenge, the Routemaster bus and the FA Cup as English icons.
	www.horseandhound.co.uk /competitionnews/392/73273.html (368 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Dinosaur Book : The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon: Books: W. J. T. Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He maintains that dinosaurs (and dinomania) are the cultural manifestation of the collective unconscious--their existence as extinct organisms is secondary.
		Their images are so pervasive and their symbolism so multifarious that Mitchell calls dinosaurs "the totem animals of modernity." A cultural historian, he explores the diverse images of dinosaurs in terms of their themes and histories and the lessons that may be learned from these.
		Instead of a detailed look at a broad spectrum of dinosaurs icons in popular culture, he only focuses those individual occurances that prove his conclusions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226532046?v=glance (1536 words)

	The Club DJ: a brief history of a cultural icon.
		The main institutions of the dance music industry—the independent label, the record pool (companies distributing promotional records to DJs who in return issue feedback sheets), the underground club, the specialty retail store—tend to be staffed by DJs who base their activities on an ever-expanding concept of their art and skills as musicians and performers.
		The increase in status from record-spinner to remixer and record producer has transformed the club DJ from cult figure to cultural icon.
		The rest is the history of what became rave culture, a European youth dance phenomenon which is still going strong.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_07/uk/doss29.htm (2029 words)

	Web 100 - Google as a Cultural Icon
		But if Google's cultural cachet is reaching a new level, then the company is also learning about another side to its renown.
		That may be a reasonable move on Google's part, considering the laws involved, but most companies don't have to worry about Harvard academics studying their practices.
		Google was founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, and while it must be a thrill to see your company appear in a New Yorker cartoon, you've got to wonder whether it's not just a signal of cultural cachet, but also the degree to which you're likely to become a target for others.
	www.web100.com /articles/4google.html (533 words)

	IT126: Cultural icons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is a question about the scale and longevity of their fame, but also of the enduring importance of what they represent to a large number of people.
		The icons of one group may be completely unknown to another.
		Hollywood stars are among the most universally recognised largely because of the massive global machinery of cinema and broadcast media.
	learning.unl.ac.uk /humanIT/it126/culticon.htm (507 words)

	RedAssedBaboon.com Forums - Pac-Man as Cultural Icon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		That was the moment that games had become a legitimate part of our culture.
		I would have to agree that Pacman legitimized video games, but interactive gaming didn’t explode until Super Mario Bros. Pacman had a huge influence and he would probably be the most recognized computer generated character.
		But the Pac-Man craze seemed to totally pervade the culture of my generation, being around 9 years old or so when I became caught up in it.
	www.redassedbaboon.com /forum/showthread.php?t=160 (648 words)

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		Created:8/20/2005 10:25:31 PM Last Updated:8/20/2005 10:27:26 PM When you first see it, plopped down on a paper plate in all its caloric bliss, the round, doughy treat is so appealing, so alluring it's hard to believe this wondrous sight can cause anything but delight.
		When the government moved Indians off their land and onto reservations in the 1800s, they were kept from their traditional foods such as elk, corn, deer and rabbit.
		In their place were rations of flour, salt and lard, and Indian women did what they could with it, creating the wonderful fry bread that would become part of their culture.
	wusatv9.com /health/health_article.aspx?storyid=42310 (1741 words)

	From Cultural Icon to Freedom Fighter
		There is little in the life of this one-time icon of Iranian art and culture to explain her conversion, at age 69, to a firebrand activist willing to risk everything for a political cause.
		There, she said, her voice remained strong because daily "I went into the desert and sang for the birds, the trees, the river, the passing clouds and the stars."
		It was then that Marzieh decided to remain in Paris where she was appointed adviser for cultural and artistic affairs to Mrs.
	www.iran-e-azad.org /mz/merep.html (949 words)

	Michael Blitz, Louise Krasniewicz: Why Arnold Matters: The Rise of a Cultural Icon - Bøger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As an adjective, as a metaphor, as an easy reference point for anyone talking about things tough, forceful, and successful, they'll explain exactly why Arnold matters--and for better or worse, richer or poorer, America may never be the same.
		A better title would be "A long list of where Arnold shows up all over our culture and how really, really popular he is." I'm fascinated by Arnold, but frankly this is not interesting reading.
		An excellent example of how writers can collaborate successfully, and integrate popular culture, politics, philosophy, sociology, technology, and media studies on their own terms.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/0465037526\|dvd (761 words)

	Cultural Icon
		Even in the early days of his pioneering work he chose to sing his songs as a mixture of standard English and the local dialect so that they could be appreciated by all who heard them.
		He won the Indian Cultural Pageant four times and this led organisers to create a special category for his original compositions.
		He performed with international Indian stars Kanchan and Babla, Anup Jalotha, Amitab Bachan and Keshor Kumar and with popular local calypsonians such as Black Stalin whose “Sundar Where the Song“ helped him cop the monarchy.
	www.rafimohammed.com /culicons/popo_sundar.html (481 words)

	SkateboardDirectory.com: News : Tony Hawk: Skateboarder and Cultural Icon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His skill is to rise toward the heavens on a board with wheels *, twisting through the air in ways only dreamed about, never achieved, before he got there.
		He is the first skate-punk impresario, a cultural icon-slash-entrepreneur for the Nickelodeon set.
		The long, slow creation of Tony Hawk, cultural icon, did not begin in a corporate boardroom.
	skateboarddirectory.com /articles/479980_tony_hawk_skateboarder_and.html (2133 words)

	An uphill task for a cultural icon - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He may be the most-admired cultural icon of Assam.
		But it was with the left parties’ support that he — as an independent candidate — contested and won the assembly polls from Naoboicha in 1967.
		However, his decision to join a political party at the age of 78 has shocked many of his old pals, cultural luminaries and intelligentsia.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr182004/sl13.asp (1006 words)

	bbq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Don't be fooled by the casual atmosphere in most of these barbecue joints; these are the places where the legacy of Southern food is vigilantly protected.
		In the Southern United States, barbecue is a cherished cultural icon.
		There are few things in the South more universally revered than good barbecue, and deconstructing barbecue is a study in the culture of the South.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA95/dove/bbq.html (211 words)

	Google - Cultural Icon - M/Cyclopedia of New Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the course, students study different aspects of Google such as Google as a cultural phenomenon, Google the business and the technology behind Google (Flash, C., 2004).
		Google has spawned a range of activities which include Google Whacking (Gebhardt, M., 2003), which challenges people to search for a combination of 2 words without quotation marks that will only turn up one result.
		Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php/Google-Cultural_Icon (765 words)

	“This cultural chariot icon…the Lowrider (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They are essentially cultural vehicles and social influences.
		The Low-rider has become an icon and signature emblem of great pride.
		Low-rider culture as American is a foregone conclusion since it comes from
	latino.si.edu /virtualgallery/Lowrider/LR_maguEssay.htm (394 words)

	How a cultural icon is born \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - While it may be possible to consciously create a cultural icon, most grow into their role over time, and can trace their origins to conventional motivations – making money, sharing an idea, or simply having some fun.
		Every subject is covered in the same manner – with other television icons including stars of "Star Trek," Perry Mason, and Gumby.
		Though there is no onsite mention of its requirement, and no obvious omissions to a visitor who isn't using JavaScript, the full navigation menu and interactive icons for the most recent stories won't be visible without it.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1010/p25s01-stin.htm (413 words)

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