MUS 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Super Bowl, What Makes You Beautiful, Raymond Williams
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Latin: popularis ("belonging to the people": 18th century: widely favored, well-liked. Who has the authority in the making of popular culture: high vs. low culture. Or "consumer-influenced production"? (ashby 2010: contours of "the popular, the popular is instable, constantly in flux, the popular is often bound up in media objects (a "signifier") -> use music to track and trace what is popular: the popular seeks widespread favor and power. And so, defining what is popular is a contentious issue: popular culture is a site of cultural negotiation, identity, politics, imagination, desire, resistance, theft, transformation, sharing that is disseminated and circulated through mass media. Who is the intended audience: psy: "gangnam style" (2012, most clicked video on youtube three years ago, video: dance, color, visual --> popular, eminem: "love the way you lie" ft. rihanna (2010) !!!! Subject matter about relationships: love, struggle, domestic abuse --> representative of a group of people --> popular.
