COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Modernism, Herbert J. Gans, List Of Mannix Episodes
17 Dec 2017
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Argument as intellectual process (with acknowledgements to monty python) Popular culture as other (vs elite, folk, mass) Popular culture as everyday culture & youth culture. Towards a working definition of popular culture . Popular culture = the communicative practices and experiences of everyday life (brock calendar entry) Hence the communicative texts, practices and experiences of everyday life (includes mass culture, folk culture and everyday culture) Consists of both texts (artifacts) & practices/experiences. Popular culture is associated with particular sites where people engage in cultural behaviour/practices or engage with cultural objects. Popular culture, like other forms of culture, must be interpreted in context (storey, 14-16) Popular culture is generic (organized around recognizable formulas) It is highly self-reflexive (much of it is about other pop culture texts, experiences, practices) Competing perspectives on the politics of popular culture. John street, in politics and popular culture (1997) identifies four political/ideological perspectives on popular culture (see next slide):
