pop culture is the culture that the general public likes. Compared to subculture and high culture, they don't need any stable knowledge about pop culture. Therefore, they can enjoy it sensuously. By the improvement of mass media, it got easier to enjoy high culture such as art works and Opera, but still pop culture occupies general public's attention more.
For example, Hikaru Utada, who is a Japanese R&B artist influenced especially young generation in Japan around the year 2000 by her memorable songs, and her CDs and albums always have been making great sales no matter what kind of reputation they got.
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I love Utada Hikaru! In the early 2000s she became big in America mainly because of the song she wrote for the video game "Kingdom Hearts," which got a lot of attention because of Disney. Anyways, it's funny how video games can influence pop culutre :)
返信削除This is a good start at a definition. I wonder if we need to define what is meant by the "general public." It seems kind of broad.
返信削除I imagine there to be divisions based on age, gender, education and income which have some bearing on what some people find popular.
Any thoughts?