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	Popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The content of popular culture is determined by the daily interactions, needs and desires, and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the non-elite.
		But popular culture cannot be described as just the aggregate product of those industries; instead, it is the result of a continuing interaction between those industries and those who consume their products.
		Still another says that popular culture is actually the culture adopted by cultural mavens or alphas, and then modified later by the laggards of the mainstream.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pop_culture (1132 words)

	Illuminations: Kellner
		His assault on religion, morality, mass culture, and the banality of modern societies is thus unleashed from the standpoint of an ideal of the free and uninhibited flow of life energies, an unrestrained expression of instinctual powers.
		The crisis in modern culture is partly rooted in the fact that aesthetic sensibilities have been savaged by the repressive forces of instrumental rationality, social rationalization, and mass culture and society, thus art has been relegated to the margins of society.
		His radical critique of mass culture is fuelled, in part, by the conviction that it represents a degeneration of culture, that it is a debased form of precisely that mode of existence that is supposed to produce better, higher, and healthier human beings.
	www.uta.edu /huma/illuminations/kell22.htm (4602 words)

	KeyWords: Mass Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The traditional approaches to the study of mass culture tend to assert, as Brantlinger argues, a "negative classicism," in which the Culture of yesteryear was superior to the "mass culture" of today; based upon this premise, modern civilization is seen to be in a state of decay, a slouching toward Rome, so to speak.
		Mass culture also implies a condition of both spectacle and spectatorship, in which the aesthetic, intellectual, spiritual and/or cultural qualities of "true" Culture/Art are eliminated in exchange for sensational, titillating, vulgar or demeaning content (i.e., spectacle), and which requires the "passive" consumption from its audiences rather than their active participation in its creation (i.e., spectatorship).
		I suggest that the mass culture debate --- typified as it is by incompatible but similarly silent positions -- constitutes in itself a set of ritual utterances, a set of ritual practices deployed, in varying degrees, for the purposes of the maintenance of an intellectual community.
	www.mediahistory.umn.edu /masscult.html (5794 words)

	On the Arts: What the market will allow: high culture and the bottom line
		Cultural products, as their producers know quite well, tend to fare better with a public whose expectations are fulfilled, not challenged.
		In this corporatized, profit-motivated environment, all culture is mass culture, since mass consumption of the highest levels possible is the ultimate goal.
		Cultural analyst John Seabrook recently described this new mainstream/nonmainstream binary as "no-brow," a buzz that increases in volume as a cultural product, event, personality or trend makes its move from what Seabrook calls the "small grid" to the "big grid" of mass consumption.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000910onarts8.asp (962 words)

	ABRAMS, DOUGLAS CARL. SELLING THE OLD-TIME RELIGION: AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALISTS AND MASS CULTURE, 1920-1940 for the ...
		His thesis, that fundamentalists both incorporated and rejected elements of modern culture in the inter-war years, is not a new assertion, but it does challenge the assumption that fundamentalists and evangelicals were and continue to be, a homogeneous group.
		Abrams does a commendable job showing fundamentalists’ paradox; as antimodernists, they eschewed modern culture as they embraced certain elements for their evangelization, and they used, and continue to use, mass culture not to be like the world, but to evangelize it (xii).
		Fundamentalists in this twenty-year period were cultural brokers who negotiated the boundaries of secular culture to their benefit, and who attempted to reject modernism at the same time as they embraced modern techniques in mass culture.
	jsr.as.wvu.edu /2001/reviews/Abrams.htm (717 words)

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		A set of cultural values and ideas that arise from common exposure of a population to the same cultural activities, communications media, music and art, etc. Mass culture becomes possible only with modern communications and electronic media.
		A mass culture is transmitted to individuals, rather than arising from people's daily interactions, and therefore lacks the distinctive content of cultures rooted in community and region.
		Mass culture tends to reproduce the liberal value of individualism and to foster a view of the citizen as consumer.
	bitbucket.icaap.org /dict.pl?term=MASS%20CULTURE (131 words)

	Print: The Chronicle: 4/12/2002: American Culture Goes Global, or Does It?
		The roots of the new global culture lie as well in the European modernist assault, in the early 20th century, on 19th-century literature, music, painting, and architecture -- particularly in the modernist refusal to honor the traditional boundaries between high and low culture.
		The hallmark of 19th-century culture, in Europe and also in Asia, was its insistence on defending the purity of literature, classical music, and representational painting against the intrusions of folklore and popular amusements.
		Although modernism assaulted the conventions of 19th-century high culture in Europe and Asia, it inadvertently accelerated the growth of mass culture in the United States.
	www.chronicle.com /cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i31/31b00701.htm (3205 words)

	Takis Fotopoulos - Mass media, Culture and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Culture, exactly because of its greater scope, may express values and ideas, which are not necessarily consistent with the dominant institutions.
		As a result, traditional communities and their cultures are disappearing all over the world and people are converted to consumers of a mass culture produced in the advanced capitalist countries and particularly the USA.
		Finally, cultural citizenship involves new democratic structures of dissemination and control of information and culture (mass media, art, etc.), which allow every member of the community to take part in the process and at the same time develop his/her intellectual and cultural potential.
	www.inclusivedemocracy.org /fotopoulos/brdn/vol5_1_1.htm (13073 words)

	Rotifers Rotifer Culture
		The development of the larval rearing industry is primarily due to the advancement of mass culture technology of the marine rotifer B. plicatilis (Fulks et al., 1991).
		The second indicator for assessing the status of rotifer mass cultures is egg ratio, which is the number of eggs carried by females divided by the number of females.
		The effect of un-ionized ammonia on the population growth of the rotifer in mass culture.
	www.athiel.com /lib5/rotifers.htm (3139 words)

	Exhibition Center Caixa Forum - Dalí Mass Culture - Perfume News
		Mass culture, a first-ever, detailed analysis of the relationships between the painter / writer and mass culture, consisting of 400 works that include oil paintings, water colours, drawings, documents, adverts, films, designs and miscellaneous items, classified in eight sections.
		Mass culture analyses the relationship between the genius and industrial culture, his understanding of art and the complexity of modern times.
		There are three levels of exhibit: representation in Dalí's works of pop culture themes; the transformation of painting under the influence of serialised reproduction techniques (collage, performances), and his direct interventions in popular culture through the design of products others commissioned (in areas such as fashion, cinema or advertising).
	www.museudelperfum.com /noticia.php?id=7&lang=en (312 words)

	adorno on mass culture; cook [rev] - Title
		Emigrants from Nazi Germany, Adorno and his colleagues observed the use of mass culture in German fascism and were shocked to see in the United States the same sort of ideological culture which reproduced the existing social relations and served as propaganda for the established socio-economic and political order.
		In sum, the book is a refreshing departure from the frequent tendency to bash and dismiss Adorno without further ado, or the tendency on behalf of his followers to simply celebrate him as the great theorist of the contemporary moment.
		Yet occasionally, I have a nightmare that in some sense Adorno is right, that media culture by and large keeps individuals gratified and subservient to the logic and practices of market capitalism, that the culture industry has become thoroughly commodified and absorbs and deflects all oppositional culture to subservient ends.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /courses/ed253a/MCkellner/COOKREV.html (1022 words)

	The American Communication Association: Studies Center, Mass Media and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		AEJMC The Association for Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication is an international association of more than 3,300 journalism/mass communication faculty, students, administrators and professionals.
		Mass Media Articles Database Penn State's index of 17,500 articles published from 1984 to date in over 60 mass media journals.
		Cultural Environment Movement (CEMNET) The Cultural Environment Movement is an international coalition of over 250 organizations and 6300 individuals united in working for gender equity and general diversity in mass media employment, ownership and representation.
	www.uark.edu /~aca/studies/mediaculture.html (1179 words)

	McLuhan Studies Premiere Issue: Eco's Prophetic Vision of Mass Culture
		Then Italian TV was still a novelty and the rapid technological industrialization of culture, especially in the publishing and communication industry, was alienating many of the so-called traditional, conservative, and for the most part marxist intellectuals, particularly those who sided with the "apocalyptic" writings of Adorno and Marcuse.
		Even in his first essays in the sixties, the author's approach to reading, interpreting and commenting on culture could already be seen as that of a semiotician who had not yet adopted the technical jargon of the discipline.
		Nor could Eco share the views of the masses and popular culture held by marxist intellectuals who put down mass culture mainly because it is mass produced by a neo-capitalistic culture industry.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /mcluhan-studies/v1_iss1/1_1art10.htm (2467 words)

	Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
		Speaking from a dais, "Kennedy" held forth on America's addiction to the plug-in drug, declaring, "Mass media monopolies control people by their control of information." On cue, an assistant doused a wall of TV sets with kerosene and flicked a match at the nearest console.
		In fact, one could argue that the theatricalization of American life is the major cultural transformation of this century.
		Culture jamming, by contrast, is directed against an ever more intrusive, instrumental technoculture whose operant mode is the manufacture of consent through the manipulation of symbols.
	www.levity.com /markdery/culturjam.html (6446 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mass Culture: Eucharist and Mission in a Post Modern World: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Eucharist, Holy Communion, The Lord's Supper, Mass, Breaking of Bread - different labels, each with different resonance, for the act of worship that lies at the heart of the Christian faith.
		While Church teaching varies as to its exact significance, and while it is celebrated with a variety of words and gestures, almost all Christians agree that it is - in one way or another - an encounter with the living God.
		Seven chapters, each by a different contributor, examine the variety of ways in which the Eucharist can be used to challenge and inspire growing Christians, new Christians and those on the fringes of the church.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841010693 (380 words)

	H-Net Review: Robin Walz on Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in fin-de-siecle Paris
		In Schwartz's book, French crowds are remarkably civil and socially egalitarian in their consumption of mass culture, even when its subject matter was sensationalist or morbid.
		Second, Schwartz takes issue with the perspective that commercial mass culture necessarily alienates an individual from her or his social being.
		By alluding to pleasures of consuming without a supplemental discussion of the fetishization of commodities, from either a neo-Marxist or psychoanalytic standpoint, it remains unclear what Schwartz means when she writes, "Through flanerie, spectators commanded the spectacle: They participated in it at the same time that they believed it was constructed for them" (p.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=5984923678232 (1741 words)

	Archinect : Books : Snooze: Immersing Architecture in Mass Culture
		An exuberant exploration that couples the hallmarks of successful mass culture to the urban condition.
		As any contemporary observer knows, mass culture is everywhere: it's a new network for mobile phones, it's a hip lifestyle magazine, it's a trendy brand of clothing.
		But until now, architecture and design have left the potential offered by mass culture virtually untouched.
	www.archinect.com /books/detail.php?id=19802_0_25_0_M (164 words)

	Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism - Cambridge University Press
		In Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism Thomas Strychacz argues that modernist writers need to be understood both in their relationship to professional critics and in their relationship to an era and ethos of professionalism.
		Despite this, modernist writers seek to distinguish their ideas and styles from mass culture, particularly by making their works esoteric.
		In doing so, they are reproducing one of the main tenets of all professional groups, which is to gain social authority by forming a community around a difficult language inaccessible to the public at large.
	www.cambridge.org /0521440793 (214 words)

	Mass culture quotes & quotations
		"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition...
		"The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established.
		"Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded
	en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/mass_culture (333 words)

	Consumer Culture Noticeboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Adorno, T. and M. Horkheimer (1979) ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’, in T. Adorno and M. Horkheimer (eds.), Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso.
		Allen, J. The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Culture Reform, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
		Appadurai, A. (1990) ‘Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy’, Theory, Culture and Society 7: 295-310.
	homepages.gold.ac.uk /slater/consumer/biblioa.htm (911 words)

	Mass media, Culture and Democracy
		This is not said in the usual sense of manufacturing consent described by Chomsky and Herman
		which is basically a one-way process whereby the elites controlling the mass media filter out the information, through various control mechanisms, in order to create consent around their agenda.
		this cultural pluralism does not mean a kind of cultural relativism where ‘everything goes’.
	www.democracynature.org /dn/vol5/fotopoulos_media.htm (12413 words)

	Communication and Mass Media: Culture, Domination ... Martin
		The goal of this book is to inform readers about the workings of various mass media so that they may use them in a more critical way.
		The author examines how the mass media are organized, how mass media content is produced and how the mass media create meaning and construct reality.
		I. The Coming of the Mass Media: Print and Radio Broadcast.
	www.prenticehall.ca /canbooks/phc_0133768074.html (120 words)

	Amazon.com: After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Theories of Representation and Difference): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Andreas Huyssen
		Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Lisa Rado on 5 pages
		Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present by Mieke Bal
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0253203996?v=glance (743 words)

	Readings in Popular Culture
		MASS COMMUNICATION: TELEVISION, RADIO, FILM, PRESS: THE MEDIA AND THEIR PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
		THE CULTURE OF Boston: South End Press, 1988.
		"Scandal, heteronormative culture, and the disciplining of Feminism," CRITICAL STUDIES IN MASS COMMUNICATION.
	www.ryerson.ca /mgroup/popcult.html (5120 words)

	American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives
		Mass Culture and the Eclipse of Reason: The Implications for Pedagogy
		PART VII FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI: CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
		See the XML upon which this page is based (you may need to choose "view source" in your browser after clicking the link).
	ark.cdlib.org /ark:/13030/ft4870067k (223 words)

	Michael Blackwood Productions: Art in an Age of Mass Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Michael Blackwood Productions: Art in an Age of Mass Culture
		Kirk Varnedoe, Adam Gopnik, Arthur Danto, Barbara Rose, Sasha Newman, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Elizabeth Murray, and others.
		Interviews with many of the artists included in the exhibition, among them Roy Lichtenstein, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, and Elizabeth Murray as well as other contemporary artists and critics, enrich the presentation of the subject most crucial to an understanding of the art of this century.
	www.panix.com /~blackwoo/arts_artinanageofmassculture.html (78 words)

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