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Originally posted by ARTelevision
My contention is our entire mental environment is one single seamless popular culture superstructure. There is no escaping it. We have preferences consisting of particular subsets of it, but it is all popular culture.
Nearly no one agrees with this view. I'm aware of this. I believe that can change. I can see us comprehending our predicament in an instant of cluefulness!
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that perspective depends on your definition of popular.
For instance, lets take music as an example. In recent times there were originally a few major styles of music:
Alternative (vocal, drums, and an emphasis on guitar(s))
Pop (beat, often an electronic melody, and an emphasis on vocal),
Rap (Beat, sometimes an electrionic rhythm, with a very strong emphasis on vocal)
Techno (very strong emphasis on beat and electronic rhythm,
vocal optional).
From those styles, multidunious types of music came around. For instance, Dance, a blend of Techno and Pop, and Hip-Hop, Rap spliced with a little Pop and a little Techno, and hundreds more.
Anyway, each of these styles may be defined as popular (i.e. listened to by many people) and so would therefore be subsections of popular music. But, if taken on a relative scale, pop was a whole lot more popular than any of the other styles... So wouldnt pop alone constitute Popular music?
If we move away from Popular music, and have a look at popular culture, is something like uh, adult babies a part of popular culture, compared with something like, say, drug (ab)use, or Fashion? If so then you are definitely right, because there is nothing that is not popular =)
Personally, i view something before i decide if i dis/like it. For instance, i really liked a song by Dido, Hunter i think its called, and thats pop, isnt it? =)