English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Semiotics, Soul Music
23 Dec 2016
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O"brien & szeman chapter 8 (pp. A clockwork orange - feels odd, unfamiliar, alien. Subcultures have a sense of the unfamiliar and exotic. As we understand them through the lens of popular culture, they are understood through their representation. Representation: the social production of means through sign systems (words, images, gestures). Inseparable from socially specific processes of ideology and mythology, representation constructs the world din particular ways that have significant bearing on the organisation of society. Trying to get a better understanding of how community works. Through mainstream culture and subcultures and the antagonist relationship between them that popular culture gets reproduced. Subculture: a term that describes groups or communities that deviate or differ from existing social norms. Subcultures are typically conceived as groups of individuals who come together around shared practices and ideas that are rejected or treated with suspicion by official, mainstream culture.
