Essays on Popular Culture

‘What were the functions of popular festivals, etc. in Early Modern Europe?And why did the authorities, civil and ecclesiastical seek to control orsuppress them?’In Early Modern Europe festivals were the setting for heroes and theirstories, to be celebrated by the populace. They posed a change from theireveryday life. In those days people lived in remembrance…

  According to Strinati (2004), popular culture is produced by commercial industries for markets of consumers must be a major factor influencing this relationship. If this is so, it must play a crucial part in shaping any meanings and ideas contained in the popular culture produced and consumed. In the modern age, the popular culture…

It is very difficult to define this word, isn’t it? Many ‘people’ have spent plenty of time to give definition of this word. In order to define popular culture we first need to define the term ‘culture ‘. “According to Raymond Williams, culture is ‘one of the two or three most complicated words in the…

  This involves the theory that culture is ‘mass produced for mass consumption’ (John Storey, Cultural theory and popular culture, page 10, 1993) and that those consuming are oblivious to their exploitation. This is then connected to a sense that this component of our culture has been imported from America as it is seen by…

  Popular culture this way is the (authentic) culture of the people, such us folk culture. But also creates problems. Who qualifies for inclusion in the category ‘the people’ and it evades the commercial nature of much of the resources from which the culture is made. (Storey, 1998, p. 8) “A fifth definition of popular…

Eight years in the making, From the Bowery to Broadway: Lew Fields and the Roots of American Popular Theater is theatre history with an epic sweep. At the center of this vibrant, richly detailed pageant of American show business from the 1880s to the Great Depression is an archetypal American hero, a Jewish immigrant named…