Sunday, February 8, 2015
"The Rise of Popular Culture"
As popular culture emerges constantly as something more profound and different society starts to learn more from it. What was then released in books and music is more easily released now through Facebook pages and Youtube. People then were concerned that television could have the power to corrupt the younger generation which is similar to how the older generation of our current time is concerned with technology ruining the younger generations to come. The dominant, high class, and conservative group seemed to have more power back then on what was open to the public society which is very different to how the system runs now. The middle class and lower class people have increasingly found more ways to let out how " common people" live their lives every day. My understanding of popular culture has grown enormously from the last few weeks. I use to think that popular culture was just a common thing now but, it has been rising for a while. It has become wilder and bigger starting in the 1960s in the United States with more diversity and perspectives from varies minds. Trends and styles started to get more "sexy" and less conservative kind of how it is seen now according to some of our grandparents. I hadn't realized that you can learn a lot from history from learning about how popular culture has been changing and viewed by others before our generation.
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It's funny that the older generations are so concerned with what will "corrupt" the newer generations. I often hear a lot of derision towards my generation of millenials, that we are lazy and entitled, when in fact we are having to work harder to receive the same things that were handed to the last generation. Our education is more disproportionate to our minimum wage, many kids having to work multiple jobs at a time to make it through college, and then still ending up with debt. We are contributing to social security and medicare which will almost certainly collapse before we get to retirement age.
ReplyDeleteWhich means that by the time we’re older we’ll be looking at the world going “Kids these days are no good trouble makers”. It’s also interesting and scary to think where music and technology will be by then. And while more is released online it’s still hard to find copies of movies that where on VHS before DVD came around.
ReplyDeleteI still think that many people think television is corrupt. Look at parents with young children for example. Many kids like to watch award shows to see their favorite celebrities and singers but parents do not allow them to because they act inappropriately. I think as the years go by that people are being less conservative and anything can be shown on television or else where.
ReplyDeleteI think when it comes to technology, our generation is more open to what it has to offer. But with anything that is completely new, people are going to question it. For them television was new so it was concerning. For us something will eventually come along that will have us questioning it as well. But I as well thought of pop culture as a common thing. I didn't even think of it being a part of the past. Now I can see that pop culture has been around as long as people have.
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