NSE11 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Passion Play, Late Capitalism, Corporate Capitalism
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Everywhere, at all times, there seem to be more or less regular forms and occasions of symbolic expression through which creators articulate meanings which are widely valued. Neolithic society produced the peerless art of the. During the middle ages european balladists and troubadours carried representations of longings, witticisms, political statements and private passions from village to village, nation to nation, social estate to social estate (burke 1978). Street shows and festivals were occasions for indulging the spirit of celebration, of public display, even of revolt (altick 1978; burke 1978; huizinga 1955; ladurie 1979). Popular sentiment empowered artistry, and artistry was granted its cultural occasions, its institutions. Popular culture carried meanings which were aesthetic and, at the same time, religious, political, or, simply, incarnations of everyday sentiment. It exhorted, celebrated, cautioned, and denounced; it embodied morality and provided release from it; it gave pleasure and attached that pleasure to particular symbolic constructions.
