English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Forces, Earthrise, Richard Florida
5 Nov 2016
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Popular culture reading notes lectures 14 + 15. Popula(cid:396) cultu(cid:396)e: a use(cid:396)(cid:859)s guide chapter 9 pgs. Not to suggest (cid:449)e(cid:859)(cid:448)e (cid:373)o(cid:448)ed (cid:449)holesale f(cid:396)o(cid:373) a so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) of fit athletes to (cid:272)ou(cid:272)h potatoes, nor has the commercialization of public space proceeded linearly throughout history. Among the innovations of cities were places of leisure like parks and swimming pools, It was hope that these sites would provide public enjoyment and also divert the working class from the lures o the pub and towards more physical activity. Rich kids swim, poor kids sink: public pools have also seen some controversy, originally they were built as a campaign to promote hygiene in mid-nineteenth-century. In the 19h century there was a shift of work from fields to factories. As a space opened between work and home, leisure and recreation were relegated to their own distinct places and times more so too. Work is included under the broad term of popular culture for two reasons:
