Friday, May 18, 2012

P6 T3 Wylie Contemporary Synthesis

Contemporary Synthesis Question Pop culture is commercial culture based on popular taste. In order to capture the ability to appreciate and respond to the influences within popular culture, it does not require great effort. This is due to the easy accessibility for mainstream audiences. Pop culture is a “popular culture” because a person can easily access it and become involved with the lifestyle. In the present day, one can go on the Internet and search for what the most popular books, movies, songs, and fashions are, and become integrated with the newest movement within minutes. The search engine, Google, is an indirect pop culture icon for people throughout the world as a result. In today’s culture of easy accessibility and instant gratification with literature and art, Google has become a nearly living model of this philosophical tendency. Mainstream popular culture has created great controversy as a consequence, and many people state that it has led to negative impacts towards peoples’ imaginations, creativity, and (for writers, artists, and public figures) ability to gain popularity should they not adhere to the model of popular culture. The song “M.T.V. Get Off The Air” by the punk band Dead Kennedys states it cleverly. The song states how popular culture and the creation of music television is destroying our imagination and creativity with programming that is purely created for profit and for propaganda and sedation of the viewer. This is conflict; for pop culture’s easy accessibility and instant gratification sets barriers and obstacles for art and literature because they do not meet these prerequisites. (256 Words) Dylan Mulcahy James Jin Amber Austin Caleb Ong Amber Austin Robert Meza Period 6, Wylie
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  1. wyl.p5.t3May 21, 2012 at 4:48 PM

    We feel that you have stated what truly makes popular culture what it is, "the ability to appreciate and respond…does not require great effort. This is due to the easy accessibility for mainstream audiences. Pop culture is a “popular culture” because a person can easily access it and become involved with the lifestyle." It is truly astonishing to sees the power mass media plays. whether it be through print, recordings, cinema, radio, television, or the internet. Internet! Yes, we too feel that this is perhaps the greatest asset that pop culture has, it is with this technological advancement that we feel has been able to carry on and attract the majority. However we are not so certain that the contemporary era has led to a loss of imagination of creativity. We see your point in the pressure it creates for one if one does not "follow the flow" but we are not sure how this is a consequence of a loss of imagination or creativity. Do you perhaps mean that people have failed to keep an "open mind" to things they perhaps may not understand or question? Good job on capturing the overall essence of this era. Though it is an era in which we live in, it is not a simple task to explicate it.

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