OF POPULAR

CULTURE
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formation of
traditions and trends
that link humans in a
common group.
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Therefore, human culture existed even in
prehistoric societies

However, those prehistoric societies’ tradition

and arts (things that are created, such as cave
paintings and decorated pottery) are generally
considered as folk art and folkways.
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Cave paintings are a
type of parietal art,
found on the wall or
ceilings of caves. The
term usually implies
prehistoric origin, but
cave paintings can also
be of recent production
like century ago.
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parietal art
- the archaeological
term for artwork done
on cave walls or large
blocks of stone.
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Decorated pottery
- art that is meant to be
useful as well as beautiful,
as ceramics, furniture,
jewelry, and textiles.
- usually decorative arts.
- any of the arts,
as ceramics or jewelry
making, whose works are
created to be useful.
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Popular culture, by definition, requires that the
be engaged in practicing and consuming it,
thereby making it popular..
Three early, significant popular-culture
mileposts are:
1. Wedding ceremonies
2. Music
3. Fashion style
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predating even
Biblical accounts
began traditions
based on religious
tenets and quickly
became engrained in
society
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During the Renaissance
composers began committing
notes to paper and thus created
the opportunity for music to be
shared beyond first-person
familiarity. For the first time, a
piece of music could be
performed by someone who
had never heard it.
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Shakespeare the Superstar

Western world’s first pop culture

“superstar” was probably William
Shakespeare.
His theater plays are timeless
classics, but he wrote them for a
mass audience, thus fulfilling pop
culture’s requirement of art that is
meant to be enjoyed by the masses.
Shakespeare the Superstar
Shakespeare the Superstar
Shakespeare’s art bridged the
gap between popular and fine
art in 16th century England—
and ever since, as it is among
the finest literature ever
produced in English.
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Several of his plays were set
elsewhere in Europe, which
exposed the common
Englishman to wedding and
courtship traditions of
different classes and cultures,
potentially influencing those
of England.