V2: Popular Culture Flashcards
1
Q
First Definition?
John Storey
A
Definition 1:
- Well liked by many people (e.g. Taylor Swift)
- Pr: Quantity -> how to measure many? How to know if liked?
2
Q
Second Definition?
John Storey
A
Definiton 2:
- Leftovers of high culture (things that fail to meet the standards of high culture are popular culture)
- Pr: high culture requires some sort of test (complexity test)
3
Q
Third Definition?
John Storey
A
Definiton 3:
- Mass culture (commerical culture, capitilasim, mass consumption)
- consumers in collective dreamworld
- formulaic
- Pr: mass culture imposed from above
4
Q
Fourth Definiton?
John Storey
A
Definition 4:
- Folk culture: for the poeple by the people
- culture is not imposed from above, but created from below (local food, musicians)
- Romanticism of working class culutre
- Culture being passed down through the ages
5
Q
Fifth Definiton?
John Storey
A
Definition 5: (Antonio Gramsci)
- a site of struggle between the “resistance” of subordiante groups and the forces of “incorporation” operating in the interests of the dominat groups
- Hegemony: Doms want to control the subs,through intellectual and moral leadership to gain consent of the subs
- comprimise equilibrium: Power struggle between doms and subs
- Olive Marchart: traingle of culutral studies (culture - identity - power)
6
Q
Sixth Definiton?
John Storey
A
Definition 6:
- Postmodern culture doesn’t recognize the distinction between high and popular culutre
- Pr: everything the same?
