In this report the main focus of my interviews was to find out how two people from different age groupings and backgrounds have spent their musical careers throughout the years. Focusing on all kinds of 'Rock' music, I have asked questions and plan to see if the answers given relate s...

The music industry is an industry that is making billions of dollars a year. This is largely due to the impact of pop culture on music. Nowadays there are many different types of media that exemplify pop culture. Pop culture is marketed directly to American youth through the medium of large net...

Pop Culture's Logo Have you ever been watching your favorite music video when suddenly a little MTV logo pops into to the corner of the screen? If so you have been a witness to one of the most influential devices of "pop" culture. MTV has influenced and supported pop culture by pro...

The Generation of Rave Subculture and is the Term "Subculture" Still Relevant for the Genre? The dictionary defines subculture as "A cultural subgroup differentiated by status, ethnic background, residence, religion, or other factors that functionally unify the group and act collec...

In the Webster dictionary the definition for violence is an "exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse (as in effecting illegal entry into a house), an instance of violent treatment or procedure injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation". Violence has always ...

A sign system is representation through communication which in turn leads to a shared meaning or understanding. We hold mental representations that classify and organise the world (whether fact or fiction), people, objects and events into meaningful categories so that we can meaningfully comprehen...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, Britpop is known merely as a musical genre, represented especially by present-day groups such as Coldplay and Radiohead. However, it was started in the early 1990s and, similarly to most of popular art, it contains a wide range of elements of the culture in which it was born. ...

Aotearoa New Zealand Hip Hop Popular Music The Hip-hop culture in Aotearoa New Zealand is similar to other countries where reclamation of identity has been achieved using music. Is Hip-hop a backlash of the colonisation process? Discuss the Hip-hop culture as a medium for expressiveness and a wa...

In this ambitious study, Uta G. Poiger attempts to trace the developments of Post-WWII popular culture in East and West Germany, paying close attention to reaction and politicization that framed each side's discussions. The picture that emerges seems to be extremely accurate, but it is at the s...

The word \"globalization\" can be defined as the decline in costs of doing business internationally. One of its key effects is to enhance the international integration of markets for goods, services, technology, ideas, financial and other capital, labor, and even arts and crafts. The end of the Cold...

Media Stereotypes 2What is culture? Webster's dictionary defines culture as, ‘the act of developing intellectual ability with education; a form of civilization, particularly the beliefs, arts, and customs". Well then, what is popular culture? Is raving, popular culture? According to Theodore...

Everything you own, wear, use, carry, live with, display, spend money on - from necklace to automobile - can be interpreted as a sign. All of these things serve as a type of signifier to send out information about ourselves. For centuries, fashion has always been a way of non-verbally communicat...

Metaphors that Shape the Theme of Cultural Negotiation The essay "How it feels to be colored me" composed by Zora Neale Hurston introduces metaphors which construct the theme of cultural negotiation. Within the essay the author describes her personal conflict, illustrated by the use of ...

Globalization Monster Globalization is not a trend or a fad. It is an international system which replaced the Cold War system and, like its predecessor has its own rules and logic that now influence the politics, economics and environment of virtually every country in the world. It is important ...

Ancient Greece was a time of innovation, whose influences can still be seen today on modern day society. Some things, though, were seemingly unique to Greek culture; one example of this being the Greek tragedies. These tragedies weren't just any plays, they were emotional events for the citizens t...

A sign system is representation through communication which in turn leads to a shared meaning or understanding. We hold mental representations that classify and organise the world (whether fact or fiction), people, objects and events into meaningful categories so that we can meaningfully comprehend ...

BIBLIOYouth and Values In an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These dissident actions against the structure of existing society promotes the beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules,...

Light gleams into the tent and shines into his eyes transferring a reaction to his brain telling him its time to wake-up. Stepping outside he feels the brisk wind bite at his toes sending a chill up his spine which in turn awakens every hair on his body. It's –26 degrees outside, and he i...

"The Emerging Culture" article is an excellent source of the ever-changing perspectives in today's markets. From Traditionalists to Cultural Creatives, the values and behaviors of consumers are constantly transforming. Throughout this article, there are conflicting images of each market category -...