Articles for tag: Popular Culture

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The History of Coca-Cola’s Advertising

Now, if I’m lucky, you have taken the time to read my article, History of Advertising and its Affect on Popular Culture. If not, kick back and relax because it is lengthy. This article further demonstrates the relationship between advertising and popular culture by examining the history of Coca-Cola, the advertising they use, and where ...

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Black Popular Culture and Its Messages

Musical expression is an art form that allows creativity, thought, and imagination to be widely demonstrated. It can be cathartic for both its makers and its listeners, as stories of adversity and struggle are often told. For example, much can be told about black history through the music of spirituals, blues, gospel, jazz and swing. ...

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Understanding Themes Within Popular Culture

1.)The beauty ideal of popular culture can be best understood using a cultural studies approach. By using a cultural studies approach, we are better suited to understand why the beauty ideal is different for both men and women. Feminism would allow mainly a one-sided view of the beauty ideal. It would be that of the ...

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Book Review: Moranthology by Caitlin Moran

I am, I admit, somewhat handicapped in my appreciation of Caitlin Moran’s Moranthology. First because I am not English. Second because I am not very interested in popular culture or music. Third because I am not female. Caitlin Moran is, decidedly, all three of these things. How do these handicap me? I missed quite a ...