scholarly journals Coca-Cola Socialism: The Americanization of Yugoslav Popular Culture in the 1960s by Radina Vučtić

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Sofronijevic
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The 1960S

The Folk Fight Back: Protesting the Cancellation of Don Messer’s Jubilee in 1969

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Marquis
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Television History ◽  
Canadian Nationalism ◽  
The 1960S

This article examines part of the reaction to the 1969 cancellation of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (cbc) television’s Don Messer’s Jubilee, one of the most popular Canadian-produced programs of the era. In addition to an exploration of television history and popular culture, it is also a look at the neglected topic of “square” Canada in the 1960s. Messer began fiddling at dances in rural New Brunswick in the 1920s and moved to radio and recording prior to becoming an unlikely national television star by 1961. After exploring possible classifications of the show’s music, the article explores themes in protest letters and petitions sent to the cbc. These included Canadian nationalism in opposition to American mass culture, Canadian folk culture, cbc elitism, Maritime regionalism, nostalgia, and the related themes of the generation gap and permissive society. The article concludes that fans viewed Messer as a custodian of Canadian folk culture that was being erased by the national broadcaster at a time of heightened nationalism.

Culture and the popular: Introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-299
Author(s):  
Michael Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
French Cultural Studies

This article introduces the special number of French Cultural Studies commemorating the role of Brian Rigby as the journal’s first Managing Editor. It situates his contribution in the emergence of cultural history and French cultural studies during the rapid expansion of higher education from the 1960s in France, the UK, the US and other countries. It suggests that these new areas of study saw cultural activities in a broader social context and opened the way to a wider understanding of culture, in which popular culture played an increasingly important part. It argues that the study of popular culture can illuminate some of the most mundane experiences of everyday life, and some of the most challenging. It can also help to understand the rapidly changing cultural environment in which our daily lives are now conducted.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Kutulas
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Baby Boomer ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Baby Boomer Generation ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
The 1960S

This introduction sets up the argument that because traditional authorities lost power and centrality by the end of the 1960s, the popular culture became a more potent model for how individuals might live their lives. This was especially true of members of the baby boomer generation because of their numbers and life stages in the 1970s. While there was a backlash against the diversity and equality that were important features of this new society, most individual American lives changed because of the 1960s revolutions.

scholarly journals Rock critics as 'Mouldy Modernists'

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
The Past ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Contemporary rock criticism appears to be firmly tied to the past. The specialist music press valorise rock music of the 1960s and 1970s, and new emerging artists are championed for their ‘retro’ sounding music by journalists who compare the sound of these new artists with those included in the established ‘canon’ of rock music. This article examines the narrative tropes of authenticity and nostalgia that frame the retrospective focus of this contemporary rock writing, and most significantly, the maintenance of the rock canon within contemporary popular culture. The article concludes by suggesting that while contemporary rock criticism is predominately characterised by nostalgia, this nostalgia is not simply a passive romanticism of the past. Rather, this nostalgia fuels a process of active recontextualisation within contemporary popular culture.

1960s Africa in Historical Perspective

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Talton
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
National Politics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Economic Underdevelopment ◽  
The 1960S

Scholars and other commentators have largely characterized the histories of African nations in terms of failed states, economic underdevelopment, political corruption, and civil war. This introduction and the articles that follow demonstrate the utility of breaking out of the mold of measuring African “successes” and “failures” in terms of national politics and economics, without due consideration of local political histories, popular culture, and the arts, which offer a dramatically different view of Africa’s and Africans’ influences and success within the continent and on the global stage. Toward that end, this introductory essay advocates mitigating the standard analytical model through close studies of relationships between Africans and people of African descent in which politics and economic “development” are placed alongside the arts, popular culture, and sports, with a particular emphasis on the critical decade of the 1960s as central to shaping the course of “postcolonial” African histories.

Pete Seeger, the 1960s, and US popular culture: a reminiscence

The Sixties ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-259
Author(s):  
Robbie Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The 1960S

The power ballad

Popular Music ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Metzer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Music Genres ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractThe power ballad has become a mainstay of popular music since the 1970s. This article offers a history of the songs and discusses their place in the larger field of popular music genres. The songs are defined by the use of both a musical formula based on constant escalation and an expressive formula that combines the euphoric uplift created by rousing music with sentimental themes and ploys. Contrary to views that power ballads first appeared in 1980s rock and are primarily rock numbers, the songs emerged in the 1970s pop recordings of Barry Manilow and others, and from early on crossed genre lines, including pop, rock and R&B. These crossings result in an exchange between the fervour of the power ballad and the distinct expressive qualities of the other genres. This article also places the power ballad in the larger history of the ballad. The songs are part of a shift toward more effusive and demonstrative styles of ballads underway since the 1960s. In addition, the emotional excesses of the power ballad fit into a larger change in the expressive tone of works across different popular culture media. With those works, emotions are to be large, ecstatic and immediate.

scholarly journals W mocy fantasy — dyskurs wokół gatunku rodzimych czytelników, twórców, wydawców, krytyków i badaczy

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 537-543
Author(s):  
Edyta Rudolf
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Fantasy Literature ◽  
Wide Context ◽  
Systematic Development ◽  
The 1960S

In Poland, the description of ʽfantasy’ theory arose in the 1960s, including Celestyn Skołuda, Witold Ostrowski, Ryszard Handke, and Andrzej Zgorzelski. Their work was continued by subse-quent generations of researchers interested in literature and popular culture, including fantasy.Fantasy as a type of popular literature has gradually been gaining popularity in Poland. Ka-tarzyna Kaczor, in her monograph Z „getta” do mainstreamu. Polskie pole literackie fantasy (1982–2012) has analysed phenomena related to the phenomenon of popularity of Polish fantasy literature. Its systematic development covers a wide context of processes related to the formation of the Polish publishing market, its creators, critics, publishers, recipients, as well as the type itself. The author analyses the phenomena occurring in the period 1982–2012. The selected time range includes sig-nificant changes that have taken place in the Polish publishing market.

scholarly journals Speculation over the Love for Rock Music. Media Constructions of Groupies Between the 1960s and 1970s

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Karolina Karbownik
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Constructions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Media Narratives

The music media have constructed the identity of groupies as sexual and passive objects, submissive, inauthentic consumers of music. The stereotype, although still present in popular culture, is criticized by both the interested parties and rock artists. This article is an attempt to discuss the role that groupies played in the creation of the myth and character of the rock god, while taking into account the preconceived assumptions held by the popular media. Narratives of groupies’ participation in the emerging rock and metal scene have also been included as the ones which created a male rock musician identity: wild, aggressive and powerful. The basis for the discussion of groupies and their role in building identity in the context of rock music is the result of a deep, rhetorical analysis of groupies’ biographies, press materials, films, scientific literature and own research.

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