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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:51:13 -0500
Ruth,
It's a great question, and one that occurred to me even as I posted the first message on the topic--what common ground are we standing on (if any) when we reference popular culture?
A dictionary definition I found on the web (WordIQ.com) is:
"Popular culture, or pop culture is the vernacular (people's) culture that prevails in a modern society. The content of popular culture is determined in large part by industries that disseminate cultural material, for example the film, television, and publishing industries, as well as the news media. But popular culture cannot be described as just the aggregate product of those industries; instead, it is the result of a continuing interaction between those industries and the people of the society who consume their products."
It goes on:
"Popular culture is constantly changing and is specific to place and time. It forms currents and eddies, in the sense that a small group of people will have a strong interest in an area of which the mainstream popular culture is only partially aware; thus from the Wikipedia article on the electro-pop group Kraftwerk: "Kraftwerk have impinged on mainstream popular culture to the extent that they have been referenced in The Simpsons and Father Ted."
So publishing in this is cleary defined as part of popular culture
(hello Harry Potter), but we hope we can also look at ways it is influenced by it.
I'm sure others can add to this very formal definition of pop culture.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
It is all very good to write about Popular Culture, but can someone define it for me? I needed remedial help for "pop cult" when I played Trivial Pursuit. Then again, perhaps CCBC DID define it in an earlier message which I did not read carefully.
Parameters, please.
Old Fashioned Girl, Big Grandma
"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
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Received on Thu 08 Jul 2004 03:51:13 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:51:13 -0500
Ruth,
It's a great question, and one that occurred to me even as I posted the first message on the topic--what common ground are we standing on (if any) when we reference popular culture?
A dictionary definition I found on the web (WordIQ.com) is:
"Popular culture, or pop culture is the vernacular (people's) culture that prevails in a modern society. The content of popular culture is determined in large part by industries that disseminate cultural material, for example the film, television, and publishing industries, as well as the news media. But popular culture cannot be described as just the aggregate product of those industries; instead, it is the result of a continuing interaction between those industries and the people of the society who consume their products."
It goes on:
"Popular culture is constantly changing and is specific to place and time. It forms currents and eddies, in the sense that a small group of people will have a strong interest in an area of which the mainstream popular culture is only partially aware; thus from the Wikipedia article on the electro-pop group Kraftwerk: "Kraftwerk have impinged on mainstream popular culture to the extent that they have been referenced in The Simpsons and Father Ted."
So publishing in this is cleary defined as part of popular culture
(hello Harry Potter), but we hope we can also look at ways it is influenced by it.
I'm sure others can add to this very formal definition of pop culture.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
It is all very good to write about Popular Culture, but can someone define it for me? I needed remedial help for "pop cult" when I played Trivial Pursuit. Then again, perhaps CCBC DID define it in an earlier message which I did not read carefully.
Parameters, please.
Old Fashioned Girl, Big Grandma
"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." Jessica Mitford (191796)
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