SOCC44H3 Lecture Notes - Fan Fiction, High Culture, Agnosticism
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Lecture two: the commerce of art, the art of commerce [september 16, 2013] Fan fiction take popular characters and write explicit things about them. 50 shades of grey is based on twilight. Money maker, poorly written but: changing it to a movie would not be good. People wouldn"t want to buy a ticket to watch this since it is something read in private; culturally not good. Michael jackson"s thriller" at 30: how one album changed the world billboard. com, nov. 12. Radio had a narrow target audience since majority of the market is white. Mtv, the rising radio network of the time, did not play black music. Afraid it wouldn"t sell well because it wouldn"t be played on the top40 list. Pop music was genre agnostic; critics evaluating music in the late 80s based on rock music. Mtv is rockist in its orientations judged based on rock standards.
