Culture, Entertainment and Listening Habits in The West German Discourse on Radio During the 1950s

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Benno Nietzel
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The West ◽  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Radio Programs ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Specific Contribution

This article examines the intellectual discourse in West Germany on the role of entertainment in radio programs during the 1950s. Although accounting for most of the airtime and being an assigned mission of public broadcasters, many radio officials and experts continued to be suspicious of entertainment. Strongly adhering to the classical tradition of highbrow culture, these humanistic intellectuals had difficulties accepting entertainment as an integral component of broadcasting. The only discursive path for them to adopt entertainment as a legitimate concept was to discuss its specific contribution in the context of Bildung and Kultur. The article thus provides insight into how members of the cultural elites came-to-terms with the rise of popular culture during the 1950s.

scholarly journals Japanese Concepts of Angels: Analyzing Depictions of Celestial Beings in the shōjo Manga Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Sharbat Dar
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Shojo Manga ◽  
Insight Into

White wings, long hair, 'pure' faces: the appearance of angels frequently follows similar aesthetics connected to Christian imagery. Angels and Christian religion also are popular themes in manga, Japanese comics, often intermingled with Buddhist or Shinto notions. Since imagery in popular culture resonates and shapes vernacular and cultural perspectives, manga like Kamikaze Kaitō Jeanne (KKJ) provide an important insight into the conceptualization of angels in Japan. This article therefore analyzes the contrary role of angels in KKJ as the Other, the mysterious, serene one, while simultaneously angels are depicted as part of the circle of life every creature undergoes in Buddhist cosmology. Based on a visual hermeneutic approach, this article demonstrates how the intermix of both visual and religious traditions in Japan shape the depiction of angels in Japanese popcultural media.

Hawaiian Music and Oceanizing American Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 1163-1172
Author(s):  
LEAH KURAGANO
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
American Studies ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Culture Concept

American studies has been dedicated to understanding cultural forms from its beginnings as a field. Music, as one such form, is especially centered in the field as a lens through which to seek the cultural “essence” of US America – as texts from which to glean insight into negotiations of intellectual thought, social relations, subaltern resistance, or identity formation, or as a form of labor that produces an exchangeable commodity. In particular, the featuring of folk, indigenous, and popular music directly responded to anxieties in the intellectual circles of the postwar era around America's purported lack of serious culture in comparison to Europe. According to John Gilkeson, American studies scholars in the 1950s and 1960s “vulgarized” the culture concept introduced by the Boasian school of anthropology, opening the door to serious consideration of popular culture as equal in value to high culture.1

Kościół, Cerkiew i kwestia ukraińska. Spór na forum polskiego parlamentu w 1938 r.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2(163) ◽  
pp. 131-151
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Ryba
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Role ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this article is the parliamentary discussion of 1938 concerning the religious dispute in the south-eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic. The disputes concerned, among other things, the political role of the Greek Catholic Church, which was strongly involved in the Ukrainian national movement. In 1938 a revindication action took place in the Chełm region, as a result of which the Polish authorities liquidated over one hundred Orthodox churches. These actions were the subject of a stormy debate in the Parliament between Polish and Ukrainian MPs. The arguments of the Polish side concerned, above all, the protection of the security of the Polish state threatened by intervention from both the East (USSR) and the West (Germany).

Madman Entertainment: A Case Study in ‘by Fans for Fans’ Media Distribution

2012 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Bainbridge ◽  
Craig Norris
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Media Distribution ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
A Company ◽  
Insight Into

This article is part of a larger research project looking at the role of Australian media companies in sustaining fan and Australian investment in global popular culture. This article focuses on Madman Entertainment – one of the most successful DVD and merchandise distribution companies in Australia and the leading distributor of anime, with over 90 per cent of the market share. The article explores the ways in which Madman has become a part of the simultaneous globalisation and localisation of Japanese cultural products, and sets out to show how profiling such a company can also provide some insight into the changing role of fans in driving innovation and investment in popular culture.

scholarly journals The “Europe – Russia” Dichotomy as an Invented Tradition of Modern Georgian Nationalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
M. W. Kyrchanov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
Invented Traditions ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Post Soviet Period

In the article, the author analyzes the transformation of the dichotomy “Europe – Russia” in contemporary Georgian intellectual discourse as well as strategies and forms of positive and negative ideologization of the West and Russia. We state that the hypertrophied role of European and Russian images in the Georgian discourse has resulted from the belief of elites in the collective West as an alternative to Russian infl uence. We analyze the main strategies of forming a positive image of Europe in Georgian intellectual discourse, believing that the development of European motifs and images by several generations of Georgian intellectuals led to the emergence of a unique Georgian Europeanism and the concept of the “Non Typical European” Georgian nation. The development of European images depends on the formation and promotion of the image of Russia as a universal Other. It is assumed that the negative mythologization of Russia resulted from the historical trauma of the loss of statehood, Georgia’s forced history in the Russian Empire and the USSR, as well as the failures in the Russian-Georgian relations in the post-Soviet period. Overall, the author believes that Russian and European narratives have become invented traditions of Georgian identity that infl uence the strategies of elites in Georgian foreign policy.

Mass Media and the Generation of Conflict: West Germany's Long Sixties and the Formation of a Critical Public Sphere

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA VON HODENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Professional Ethos

From the 1950s to 1970s the West German public sphere underwent a rapid politicisation which was part of the ongoing socio-cultural democratisation of the Federal Republic. This article examines the role of the mass media and journalistic elites in bringing about this change. It analyses how and when political coverage in the media evolved from an instrument of consensus to a forum of conflict. Arguing that generational shifts in journalism were crucial to this process, two generations, termed the ‘45ers’ and the ‘68ers’, are described in regard to their professional ethos and their attitudes toward democracy, mass culture, German traditions and Western models.

Liberating Songs: Palestine Put to Music

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Massad
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This article surveys the history of songs about Palestine from 1948 to the present, examining how the changes in musical style and lyrics correspond to the changes in the exigencies of the Palestinian struggle itself. Tracing the primacy of revolutionary Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s, the central role of Fayruz and the Rahbani brothers in the wake of the 1967 war, and the emergence of Palestinian groups and singers as of the late 1960s, the article provides historical and political analyses of these songs as central features of how Arab popular culture has dealt, and continues to deal, with the Palestine tragedy.

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