Pop Art was the imagery of middle-class culture repurposed. ... Along with this new language of brands and logos there was also the globalization of American popular music and celebrities. ... Pop Artists used popular culture to their creative advantage. ... If there was one artist who personified Pop Art for the average person, it was Andy Warhol. ... Pop Ar...
Throughout the twentieth century, music videos have influenced various perceptions on the images of women. ... 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. ... Women in music videos are seen in popular hip-hop culture as sex objects. ... Now that rap music is mainstream, music video producers target demographic are teenagers to young adults. ... Currently sex sells and that's what producers portray in music videos. ...
Many things can be said about Madonna: unconventional, anti-institutional religion, feminist and gay movement icon, a shrewd business woman, and, as quoted in Pamela Robertson's book, Guilty Pleasures, "She's become a repository for all our ideas about fame, money, sex, feminism, pop-culture, even death." 1(Page 117) Michel Dion's essay, "Madonna in the French Press"2, reveals the reasons why the French Press react to Madonna in such an extreme fashion, and one reason would be what he calls the "religious transgression". (Page 285) To correctly understand Dion's findings an...
He uses lots of references to concrete, specific examples such as slaves making their master's waste into a tasty meal (368) or creating the roots of so much popular music today in the plantation fields (368) or even introducing " bass to 20th-century American culture" (369). ... Alexander's point on cool as described in current pop-culture in America, however, is pretty indisputable. ...
