What are popular, popular, fashionable, and classical culture? What are the representative works?

Category: Society and People's Livelihood >> Other Social Topics

Ans:

Popular culture

is a kind of culture that emerges from the background of the development of the industrial society, and through the technological revolution, especially the revolution of communication technology.

Popular culture is different from high culture, which is clearly hierarchical, and from vernacular and mass culture, which is clearly spontaneous.

The characteristics of popular culture are: ① commodity: that is, it is accompanied by mass production and mass sales of cultural products, popular culture activities belong to a kind of consumer behavior accompanied by the relationship between the purchase and sale of commodities; ② popularity, that is, popular culture is not the culture of a particular class, but for the many scattered in the society of the culture of the "general individual"; ③ popularity, that is, popular culture is a kind of culture of the general individual; ③ popularity, that is, it is a kind of culture of the general individual. Popularity, i.e., popular culture is a kind of fashionable culture, showing a trend of change; (4) Entertainment; (5) Dependence on mass media, i.e., popular culture mainly occurs, develops and changes under the guidance of mass media, and there is no popular culture without mass media. In this sense, popular culture is also a kind of media culture.

Definition and Characteristics of Pop Culture

＊Pop culture is not easy to be defined. Pop culture is a rich and complex general concept consisting of the concepts of fashion, chic, consumer culture, leisure culture, luxury culture, material culture, popular lifestyles, popular tastes, urban culture, subculture, popular culture, and mass culture. This general concept represents a culture that spreads widely among different levels, classes and strata of the population in a certain region or globally at a certain rhythm and in a certain cycle. (Gao Xuan Yang, p80)

The popular culture we are discussing refers to the kind of culture that took on its basic modern meaning after the Renaissance, i.e., after the emergence and vigorous development of capitalist culture.

Modern popular culture is a social and cultural phenomenon closely related to the development of capitalism. In a sense, modern popular culture is an inevitable product of the development of capitalism and an important component of its culture. (Gao Xuan Yang, p86)

＊Since the 1960s, capitalist society has entered a new era dominated by the production of consumer culture. In this era, popular culture has its own characteristics

1. popular culture shortens its production and production cycle

2. popular culture adopts more

3. popular culture is based on the development of modern science and technology, and becomes more technologically oriented and technologically reproducible

4. popular culture adopts the paths of digitization and transmutation, and becomes more and more symbolic, in line with the development of electronic technology and technological development

5. popular culture has become more and more symbolic. The relationship between content and form of popular culture has been reversed, with contemporary popular culture prioritizing changes in form over content

6. Popular culture has become more mystical, moving away from traditional rationalist culture, and mysticism as an important feature of popular culture is nothing more than "incomprehensibility". Mysticism as an important feature of popular culture is nothing more than "incomprehensibility" or even something that "doesn't need to be understood."

7. Popular culture is more often associated with "sex" and the body, so much so that it can be said that contemporary popular culture is almost equal to the special culture of sex and the body.

8. Popular culture has become more consumerized and commercialized.

Fashion culture is not only popular culture, but also has to have substance and personality

Classical culture is the culture of the ancient classic