Popular culture, is the amalgamation of ideas, perspectives, and other phenomenas that find themselves in an "informal consensus." Pop culture is constantly displayed and accessible through mass media, thus we are inevitably drawn in by it. Its greatest assets being its ability to attract the "majority," (often times without us noticing) whether it be through print, recordings, cinema, radio, television, or the internet in a given place. It is an era that has no defined rules, breaking free of any past norms. It is the amalgamation of various art forms like music, dance, art that epitomize "pop culture." Music is one key in pop culture through its availability, it is during this time that with technological advances, many artists have challenged fundamental notions of music like repetition, notation, as well as performance. In dance one can see the decay, for lack of a better word of tradition. No defined structures or specific movements which can be seen in more traditional dances, like ballet. Popular culture too without a doubt be found and expressed in artwork. If anyone had to personify pop art, it would be Andy Warhol. Whose subject matters came from the imagery of mass culture. An artist renowned for using images of consumer items (Coca Cola, Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup) as well as celebrities (Marilyn Monroe), adamant that theses second-hand images had an "intrinsic banality." In short, popular culture can be expressed in all types of mediums and like sensibility in any period it has provided the opportunity for the development of perceptions, opinions and responses.
Emily Teraoka, Angela Oh, Karen Cao and Paulina Alvarez
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