As economic levels go up, American pop culture is more health food oriented. ... Fast food for example, explains American pop culture. ... In my observations of American pop culture, men eat simple foods, especially a lot of meat. ... American pop culture has a fast-paced lifestyle, always changing with time. ... There is no "American- cuisine in American pop culture, but an assortment of cuisines from cultures around the world. ...

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There has not been any recording company that has managed to leave such enormous influence in the substance and style of music culture (McCusker, 2010). ... According to Inglis (2007), one of the features of Motown music is inclusion of the elements of pop. ... In the year 1966, after Pickett covered it, the song became number six in the R&B charts of US and number twenty three in the Pop charts. ... As Rosenthal (2013) points out, one of the song's covers and culture is the young rascals, who covered it in the year 1966 when Pickett released it. ... When a vocal crew, referred to as the ...

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In America middle and lower class white people make the trends, but if you look at some of the main parts that make up pop culture, it is cool to be black. ... Music is not the only area Hip Hop culture is present in pop culture. ... The couple follows a group of upper class white high school kids and their association with black culture. ... The scene takes place in class and the students are having a discussion about how black culture is looked upon as being cool. ... White and black cultures are becoming very mixed in our communities because of this. ...

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Many European Americans listen to pop and rock music and mimic the personas of pop and rock legends by their hairstyles, piercing and apparel. ... Music in the African American culture has weighed heavily on the African traditions and Diaspora from Africa to America. ... Music is now used as an instrument of culture through its flamboyant colors, and design. Therefore, Portia Maultsby in Africanisms in African-American Music states that, the music tradition of an African consciousness in America manifests itself in the evolution of an African-American culture (156). ...

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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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As the story continues, this symbol of homes also helps to develop their identities and reveals each of their own experiences in assimilating into American culture. ... However, as the story progresses, more evidence is expressed of Ashima's willingness to assimilate further into the culture that surrounds her. ... The different 'homes' and cultures Ashima is exposed to thus reflects on her identity both through the lack of the development of identity she illustrates within her food preparation and her desire to cling onto her Bengali tradition, as well as her willingness to ...

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When you are looking back in time in American culture you can see that the concept of cool does in fact change. ... Then came the 80's, a time when pop music blew up, monster ballads and hair metal was in. ... In the Frontline presentation, "The Merchants of Cool" they went into the teen culture and how it revolves around the concept of cool. ... This is the pop superstar Brittney Spears, or the girl on the cover of seventeen. ... Although it is hard to agree with the perspectives in the video it is easy to agree that some of the aspects of our culture they uncovered are important. ...

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The stigma that once surrounded tattooing, usually condemning those who had them, has now evolved into an accepted pop culture. ... Different cultures have different beliefs of where tattooing originated. ... Different cultures also used this practice and it spread from Egypt to Greece, Persia, Central Asia, and Arabia along the trade routes. ... This is where Polynesians carried the tattoo culture across the Pacific Islands to New Zealand where it was most commonly known (Flamepoint). ... In addition, the Aniu are noted for introducing tattooing to Japan and many other cultures (Midre). ...

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But the fact is that because of slave trade being very popular in America, African culture impacted the American music greatly then, and now! ... Even in societies with well-developed traditions of professional musicianship, the ability of all individuals to participate in a musical event by adding a voice to the chorus or by adding an appropriate clap pattern is assumed to be part of normal culture competence."... As the artist formally known and The King Of Rock "n"Roll "Elvis" musical influences were the pop and country music of the time, the gospel music he heard in church and at the all-...

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The African musical practices that remained a part of the slave culture were superimposed on the main white musical culture of Western Europe. ... This requires a vocabulary of vowels and consonants related less to particular words and more to the tone and expression of jazz instrumentalists such as in the trumpet-like "Oop-Pop-a-Da" by Babs Gonzales or saxophonist Sarah Vaughn's "Shulie-abop". ...

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The same year Rebel without a Cause came out, Rosa Parks was dragged from the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and three black students were let into UC Chapel Hill, by the rulings of a federal court judge, by nineteen fifty six, the pop song "My Prayer" sung by the black band the Platters hits number one on the charts. ... The youth culture was all about breaking out, they just didn't know it yet, everything was a way of saying that something is changing, and we have to go along with it, because to do anything else is to go crazy, like our parents....

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Since the early nineteen forties America has had a serious problem trying to censor music. The problem did not actually surface until the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were the two general types...

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Television and Sexual Messages Fifteen year-old Laurie was rushed to the emergency room with acute pain in her lower abdomen. Doctors initially suspected appendicitis but during surgery they discovered something worse. Laurie suffered from pelvic inflammatory disease that was caused by either chlam...

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Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. ... There are also reviews of lesser-known women acts in pop and rap. ...

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Classism: the Road Block to the American Dream In the heart of the Compton there lived a boy named Rafael. He is a good boy living in a bad neighborhood while surrounded by violence and drugs. His went to a school that doesn't have enough money to fund itself. The playgrounds weren't safe; there were no clean drinking fountains, nor any open fields to run. Christmas comes along and his family had to tell him that there would be no Christmas that year since Santa couldn't make it (when in actuality it was because his father was fired and didn't have enough money). ...

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