Good point Yoshie. The name "popular culture" obscures the difference between the work of artists ...(and).. culture produced by mass marketing...
...Likewise, if someone is critical of the culture created by mass marketing, it would not be accurate to accuse them of elitism.... Joanna
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I prefer to look upon mass culture as `official' culture, that produced by the establishment for the masses. It has essentially nothing to do with traditional arts primarily because the media are different. So, whatever opinions or critiques of it are not critiques of the masses, but of officialdom.
Chuck Grimes