Popular culture

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at arts.usyd.edu.au
Sat Jan 11 05:57:09 PST 2003


Popular culture may be mass culture Mass culture may be popular culture Mass culture may fail as popular culture Popular culture may take some other form than mass culture

I mean, these terms are not the same, however you define "popular"

Quoting Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>:


>
> 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
>
> -----------
>
> 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
>

-- Dr Catherine Driscoll School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry University of Sydney Phone (61-2) 93569503

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