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This course examines the history of the United States through popular culture from 1865 to the present. It offers in-depth examinations of the history of the US through various examples of popular culture: namely music, imagery, literature, fads, fashions, dances, and various other genres of cultural expression form Vaudeville to Podcasts and the boardwalk to Memes. We will seek to comprehend the fundamentally transformative reflections that understanding Popular Culture has upon the history of the United States of America.
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Although there are a variety of definitions, popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture), is generally a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output, and objects recognized by members of a society as dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. The primary driving forces behind popular culture, especially when speaking of Western popular cultures, are the media, mass appeal, marketing and capitalism. Because pop culture permeates everyday life, it has a way of influencing individual attitudes towards certain topics. Common pop culture categories include: entertainment (film, music, television, and video games), sports, news, politics, fashion, technology, and slang.
Below are links to other LibGuides related to Pop Culture:
With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1930
LeRoy Ashby
ISBN: 0813123976
Note: A physical and eBook copy are available through West Library.
