ENEZETA presents Important concepts in cultural studies An Introduction.
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ENEZETA
presents
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Important concepts in cultural studies
An Introduction
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High Culture
A set of cultural products/practices and/or manifestations highly esteemed by a culture.
The best that has been said and thought in the world. (Matthew Arnold)
The culture of an elite group.
THE Arts
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High culture can be said to exist in opposition to...
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...popular culture
•A culture of the people...
...for the people.
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popular culture
A culture widely favored by many people.
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•The culture left over after leaving out what is considered high culture.
popular culture
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popular culture
HIGH
LOW
In postmodern theory, the fuzzy terrain between
high and low cultures.
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popular culture
•The site of struggle between forces of resistance and of incorporation, between dominant and subordinate cultures/classes (Antonio Gramsci).
HEGEMONY
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popular culture
A culture that is commercially produced to be consumed by a mass of non-discriminating
consumers.
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counter-culture/kountrklchr/
•A culture with values and mores that run counter to those of established society.
OR...
MAINSTREAM
A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or
at variance with the prevailing social norm.
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counter-culture/kountrklchr/
for example
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sub-culture(s)
Ken Gelder proposed key ways in which subcultures can be
identified:
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sub-culture(s)
By virtue of their negative relation to
work. Subcultures are thus seen as
parasitic, at play or at leisure
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sub-culture(s)
By virtue of a negative or
ambivalent relation to class. Subcultures refuse to be seen as
being class-conscious or as being defined
by class.
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sub-culture(s)
By virtue of an association
with/to a defined territory.
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sub-culture(s)
By virtue of their non-domestic forms of
association.
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sub-culture(s)
By virtue of a refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and massification.
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sub-culture(s)
Subcultures adopt particular styles in fashion/clothing, language and behavior and attach a certain symbolism and/or ideology to these elements.
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CAN YOU THINK OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE
THAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A "SUBCULTURE"?
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urban tribes
GothsGanguroFloggersRavers
RudeboysAcidheadsSkinheads
Nation BrothersRaggasEmos
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Where would you say these cultural
TEXTS belong?
make-up
comics
rockblues
wine
Mohawks
punk music
ShakespeareNike shoes
jeans
classical music
leather jacketsMadonna
Keith Haring’s paintings
A Hundred Years of Solitude
movies
opera jazz
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• Baker, Chris. Cultural Studies. 3rd Ed.
• Gelner, Ken. Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice.
• Storey, John. An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture.
• Music: Easy Jam by Kevin MacLeod. http://incompetech.com
• Images: Counterculture and subculture: wikipedia except anarchism (anarchism.net)Presentation by Nahirana Zambrano
Cultura y Sociedad_InglésEnglish Department
School of Modern LanguagesUniversity of Los Andes, Venezuela
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