Pop Culture Flashcards
(24 cards)
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Culture definition
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- contested and performed (Williams, 1976) (Horton & Kraftl, 2014)
- tending of something, thrive
- aesthetic and ethical sophistication
- popular culture - in/out groups
- spatially located
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Culture as Power
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- High vs low value
- Power of choice
- Affordability influences who can wear it
- Branding reflective of status
- comparison to norms
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Place definition
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- (Agnew & Duncan, 1989)
- Location, locale, sense of place
- relationally performed, understood contextually
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Changing place
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- Social construct, not a static understanding
- How we construct and imagine the world
- shift in representation
- (Massey & Jess, 1995)
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Place Based Identity
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- intergenerational influence
- conflict between local, national, international and supra-national identity
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Culture and Taste
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- visible - reviews
- distinguished, shared and contested between groups
- social performance
- (Bridge, 2001)
- Understand belonging through what we like and where we fit
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Identity definition
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- multiply identified, hard to unpick
- ‘smudging of identities’ (Mort, 1989)
- carry a range of conflicting and different identities with us
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Essentialism
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- making explicit the implicit
norms are fundamental to identity
difficult with contested national identities e.g. N. Ireland - We are what we do, how we are understood in wider society
- Linked to class - blue collar work
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Gendered assumptions
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- built into job descriptions
stereotyped jobs e.g. Fireman - starting to be unpicked
- Men sexualised certain jobs e.g. air hostess
- care work generalised to women
- (McDowell, 2009)
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Identity work
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- (Marwick, 2015)
- Identity as a business opportunity, push of physical attributes
- social media influence
- played up identity for revenue
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relational identity to place
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- (Crang, 1998)
- define ourselves through place
- wear the mark of place e.g. Uni stash
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progressive sense of place
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- (Massey & Jess, 1995)
- Social boundaries blur construction of space
- links to elsewhere within a place
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Taste & Class
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- (Bridge, 2001)
- some people have more power to define a taste
particularly those in higher classes - we can judge other people’s tastes
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consumption
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- Spaces dedicated to consumption
- social relations and discourses center on sale/use of commodities - (Mansvelt, 2005)
- people buying into ‘belonging’
- consumption as a marker of status
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Ideology
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- A systematic body of ideas for a particular group; also described as a “false consciousness” or distortion of reality to favor certain ends.
- binds individuals to a political or social order through rituals and customs.
- norms change over time
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popular music
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- identity within a fandom
-intimate moments of cultural consumption
-attend concerts, merch
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identity as consumption
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- identity based on performance
- consumption of other people e.g. dating apps
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Arcades (shopping)
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- sheltered space draws you in
- capital consumption
- emergence of consumer culture
- aesthetics, artistic expression in displays, window shopping (Benjamin, 1999)
- shopping as event
- luxury place to be seen
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McDonaldization
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- (Ritzer, 1993)
- space/place geared for efficiency and fast consumption
- consistency, recognisable
- intense regulation, calculability of outputs
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The Tourist Gaze
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- (Urry, 1990)
- Consumption of places
- ‘buy in’ to a meaning or idea of a place
- looking as consumption (1995)
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Disneyland
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- Bryman (1999)
- consumption of experience crafted on a worldwide scale
- creating atmospheres/ brand associations
- De-differentiation, removal of barriers between film and reality
- merchandising
- Dismaland, Banksy critique
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Agency & Resistance
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- active and creative in change
- resist and subvert cultural politics
- change to more sustainable consumption
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Why do we study music?
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- cultural mediator of understanding/expressing identity
- embedded in everyday
- rituals and traditions
- (Revill, 2004) Breton folk music
- Spatial performance
- Heritage
- globalisation, streaming
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