Introduction popular culture in 20th centuryIntroduction popular culture in 20th century
 When we look nostalgically at the recent past, we often recognize it by the things we used to buy, or else by such modem "heroes" as movie stars and sports celebrities. The movies, music, fashions, sport and designs provide a vivid map of our past, because they all share ephemerality. Read More
The buying and selling of time is the central activity of the leisure industry in a capitalist economy. This is what differentiates modem popular culture from the foIk culture which preceded it, and from which it borrowed many of its forms. Read More
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By its means Uncle Sam may hope some day, if he is not checked in time, to Americanize the world." What the New York Morning Post said of the movies in 1923 has become only more true since, as instruments of Americanization have become more and more effective. Read More
Any distinction between art and entertainment is far from precise, because entertainment lacks a firm definition. It is usually defined through negatives: that which fails to be art or socially significant is entertainment. We may not know what entertainment or popular culture is, but we know it when we see it. Read More
The Industrial Revolution had taken work out of the home into the factory and office. The home became a place of male leisure, serviced by women, at the same time that many things that had once been made at home were now bought in stores. Read More
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Because popular culture charts social change exactly and swiftly, it is commonly held responsible for the changes it reflects, and denounced as the harbinger of social disIocation. in the early years of the century, jazz and the movies were held responsible for juvenile deIinquency, as television to be today. Read More
 Every national cinema has defined itself in relation to Hollywood, even when that self-definition has been a conscious rejection of American commercial practice, for the United States has exported not only the products of its popular culture, but its forms, too. Read More
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