Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > English

Popular Culture

(1/4) > >>

Gopa B. Caesar:
Popular culture usually refers to the culture of the ‘people’ or the working class, folk culture, youth or subculture (which is yet to be a part of the mainstream culture but somehow is organized enough to be called a culture), and popular genres in fiction and film. In Keywords Raymond Williams suggested that four current meanings of ‘popular works/ culture’ can be drawn for consideration: “well liked by many people” i.e. “culture actually made by the people for themselves” or, “inferior kind of work” or, “work deliberately setting out to win favour with the people”. Thus these two words have showered each other with numerous meanings and connotations out of which John Storey has offered six variants of ‘popular culture’.

Tamanna Islam:
such a tiny post :(

Tamanna Islam:
what's next?

Gopa B. Caesar:
just wait a bit, ma'm ...i'm trying to compose some :P

Gopa B. Caesar:
Firstly, it refers to works which are “widely favoured or well liked by many people”,
secondly, it refers to a culture that is “left over after we have decided what is high culture” i.e.  “inferior culture” which means popular culture is viewed as “mass produced commercial culture” while on the other hand, high culture is the “result of an individual act of creation”. The most interesting thing to note about it is the division between the ‘high culture’ and ‘popular culture” changes with the passage of time; for example: the changing status of William Shakespeare through centuries. Then, as Storey went on for the third variant we come to know that means popular culture is a mass-culture which means that pop-culture is a “hopelessly commercial culture.” It is also “mass produced for mass consumption” and itself is “formulaic” and “manipulative”. Moreover, these are those content which are “consumed with brain numbed” and with “brain numbing passivity”.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page