Pop Art was the imagery of middle-class culture repurposed. ... They viewed the alluring imagery of American popular culture and its consumerist lifestyle with a sense of irony and a little bit of envy ("Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture.") ... Pop Artists used popular culture to their creative advantage. ... What artists in this era did was appreciate pop culture's dynamic effect on society and on our daily perception of life. ... It is both "sensual and cerebral - an art about art and the way we relate to it" (Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture). ...

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Their articles are classified under several categories namely Pop Culture, Music, Food, Art, and Literature. ... As Rumi Mag labels itself as an arts and culture magazine, then of course, its articles are supposed to be about arts and culture. ... (See Third Wave Culture.) ... It's very gratifying for an arts and culture magazine to exist this day of age. ... Definitely, what lies ahead of this arts and culture magazine would be very...

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Warhol And Pop Art Pop Art emerged in the US in the early 1960's, at first completely unacknowledged. During it's beginning, Pop Art was often seen as an insult to the roles of such artists as Pollock and de Kooning, who were leading a revival of Abstract Expressionist, "an abrupt and conspicuous dialectical reaction to a great wave of abstraction," at mid-century. ... Such Pop Art images as Warhol's soup cans and Lichtenstein's comic book panels jumped from the vast American consumer culture into the realm of high artistic and aesthetic recognition. It is not known whether...

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Article Summaries Adrian van Kaam discusses humanistic psychology and how it is related to culture. ... The foundation of a culture relies on the people that build it and artists are the members of cultures that create them. ... Main Body We have all seen the iconic pop-art painting of Marilyn Monroe's face or the Campbell's Soup Can prints. The great artist that is not only the creator of those works, but a key role to the Pop Movement is none other than Andy Warhol. ... Even once the Pop Art movement was over Warhol started doing prints of non-show business people, making them equa...

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An awareness in the different social context and the change in style and humour from irony to visual and witty verbal hint that the film is actually a witty satire of the superficiality of the American pop' culture that portray how society expectations dictate the ways things are seen. ... Clueless is an epitome of how popular culture can transform a society's etiquette and code to make them appeal to the updated audience and society. ... Similarly, in an American pop culture' set in a Beverly Hills high school in the midst of exaggerated plastic noses, mobile phones, drugs an...

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While other, much younger genres of music experience varying waves of popularity, classical music, as old as it is, still remains a part of our culture. ... One of the reasons that attributes to classical music's "staying power" is because unlike pop music, where songs can be easily replaced by the next big hit, classical music cannot be replaced. In composer and musician, Aaron Gervais' article, "Classical music isn't dead and stop comparing it to pop already," Gervais proposes the question and the possible answer to why classical music remains a part of ou...

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There are observed differences in roles between the genders among societies across the various cultures. ... Willendorf served as a comforting example to the male-controlled culture. ... Barbie's role as a teenage fashion model has had close association and use in popular youth pop culture (The Barbie Effect, n.d.).They are used extensively in music, movies, videos and art. ... In pop culture, the producers mainly use their body look, body dynamism and voice to attract the audience. ... The evolving culture has had a significant influence on the modern definition of beauty. ...

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The biggest and most specific concern are advertisements that use elements of youth culture, such as animation, music and fashion to create a positive association and affiliation with youth. ... Specifically, one commercial used animations to show a football player pop out of a magazine and use a Budweiser beer bottle cap as a football to play against another animated football team. ... Statistically and factually: "Researchers examined 1,261 ads for alco-pops, beer, spirits or wine that appeared more than 2,500 times in 11 different magazines that have or are likely to have disproport...

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This is combined with the relentless global marketing machine marketing glittering western pop music to the world. This global homogenisation of music was illustrated in a recent Reuters article ion which South African musicologist Andrew Tracey said that, " Globalisation is a big threat to traditional African Music-3 and that, " in cities and the more developed regions such as South Africa, modern music and imported culture are overwhelming tradition. ...

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He was the counter-culture in the early millennial generation, the answer to Britney Spears, N'sync, and the Backstreet Boys. ... For the first time white people have the basis to embrace hip-hop as a part of their culture. This was never the case with any black rapper representing the art form and culture to white crowds, certainly not one like Tupac, who was at one point the black hip-hop artist of the counter-culture. ... The hit walks the line perfectly, between a black hip-hop and white pop-rock audience while displaying a powerful message. ... " Through his lyrics he is taunti...

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So, it sounded different from the other usual 'pop bands' because the others usually put emphasis on the concentration on a certain part of the band (mainly the vocals) to represent their music. ... To be specific, using various sources of musical features of jazz, pop, and ethnic culture seems to represent the 'American cultural value'. And when a certain type of art can be construed to have an representative function of a certain culture, it is already valuable for sure. ... So, it is my very personal idea that it is possible to achieve more deep and genuine approach to...

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With the release of a new compilation album celebrating his number one singles and his first single in nearly 2 years being released in the US, the pop icon should have been basking in nostalgic glory and being the recipient of praise from both fans and the media for his contributions to pop culture. ... Jackson has publicly refuted the claims but only time will tell if the 'King of Pop' will be found guilty or not. ...

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Combined with the songs" melodies and lyrics, music videos along with the images of artists in pop culture today are powerful tools that can tattoo human minds and shape the attitudes of many. ... (Lecture Notes) In addition to cultures sharing dominant beliefs, television programming creates patterns regarding outcomes to various situations. ... (Bryant & Thompson 103) Sexism and the exploitation of women is a part of the learned mainstream American culture. Hip-hop culture is frequently condemned for its use of women as sex objects, but with mainstream American ideas being embedded into ...

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The amount of land purchased by the Orthodox Church during the Mongolian occupation was so large that the Orthodox Church remained a major power in the Russian culture and politics until Peter the Great, over 450 years later.   ... The Orthodox Church would continue building residences until villages began popping up everywhere a monastery appeared. ... As terrible as the Mongol's rule over Russia was for the Russian people, perhaps no other ruler of Russia was as influential to the Russian culture as the Mongols. ... While most Russians will argue the Mongol occupation was a terrible an...

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Western media and pop culture has influenced our idealistic misconceptions and the way in which we interpret and understand the Orient. ... In order to fully understand how Walt Disney exerts such influential control over children's culture and how it portrays Eastern cultures, it is important to understand both how Disney works and the concept of Orientalism. ... It possesses a global dominance over children's culture as it appeals to their intellect and imagination. ... Disney's understanding of culture is somewhat disappointing. ... Ten different countries are represent...

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I'm not a great fan of girls in pop." "There are just two types of female making pop music today - those blessed with good looks, and those who would perhaps be better served by an undercover visit to the local plastic surgeon. ... It is made catchy with the use of melodic pop hooks and anthemic chorus. ... Riot Grrrl ultimately was a fanzine-led flashpoint, a media rocket supporting the key-issue - a woman's place in art and rock culture....

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"The result has been a strikingly resonant lexicon that reflects the power of both youth culture and television in the evolution of American slang- (slayage.tv). Adams writes: "[w]hether your culture is popular or elite, Buffy has influenced it, and because Buffy is so linguistically potent, its cultural influence amounts, in part, to influence on American speech- (p11). ... Obscure pop culture references aside, the most significant functional shift in slayer slang is that of much from adverb to adjective. ... Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon offers a model illustration of ...

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This manifested in rejecting "the idea of a shared political priority list or even a set of issues one must espouse to be feminist inheriting critiques of sexist dominant culture and embracing pop culture that supported women" (Baumgardner, p. 39). ...

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Celebrities have also become increasingly involved including Jimmy Fallon, Cher, Madonna, Puff Daddy, Seth Meyers and many, many more talk show hosts, country singers, actors and pop stars. ... As a culture, we help one another with compassion and can override government apathy. ... Our culture is resilient; we will find answers, hold people accountable, and the city of Flint will endure....

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This tradition, gnosticism, is far from a backwater fringe movement in American culture and spirituality. ... In fact, America's romance with the gnostic coincides with a culture-wide posture of civic disengagement. ...

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Banksy Whether graffiti is an art form or crime has been a long standing debate between graffiti writers and the public since graffiti made its way into pop culture in the early 1980's. ... Banksy is a world-renowned graffiti artist and political activist who brings light to the debatable art form of graffiti by creating thought-provoking pieces that comment on culture and society and are quite beautiful as well. ... Although, there is most definitely a distinction between some graffiti that is meant to be viewed, appreciated, and understood by all, and other graffiti that is not meant t...

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No matter how successful a company, it is pretty much inevitable that some sort of calamity will pop up. ... Ethical Issue    One main issue to consider in this case would be the relationship between leadership and organization culture. ... Culture changes can be either positive or negative, in this particular case a handling the situation in an ethical manner is essential. ...

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She detaches herself from pursuing her own African roots and embracing the characteristics associated with that culture because she believes that is what detracted Milkman. ... However, with the influence of pop culture, and modern-day values, the meaning of love has become distorted in its evolution. ...

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Only an image, not words, was needed to reap profits in other cultures. ... Now critics in France, Germany, indeed all Europe, and intellectuals on each continent deplore American commercialism, mindless consumerism, the vulgarity and triviality of American pop culture. ...

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(Bailey) This impression upon the Native American people in the New World, although not optimistic, shaped and limited cultures for thousands of years. ... Popé's Rebellion of 1680). ... From California and Florida to Tierra del Fuego, the Spanish empire influenced a large array of cultures and formed the defining ways of their existences. ...

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