THEORIZING POPULAR CULTURE

Theorizing Popular Culture

Theorizing Popular Culture

Introduction

For several decades, the traditional barrier between culture elite, dominant, high or high and mass culture, alternative (Residual), low or has been subverting popular gradually. Today, we recognize that it is not possible to refer to one without account the other. Both are above any other distinction, a social practice. Thus, it is increasingly difficult to understand the traditional division in any other context than the political. Both from the aesthetic standpoint and from the intellect, such a distinction has lost its meaning. The incorporation of cultural studies programs teachers and researchers in the humanities and social sciences of most universities and advanced research has led to the redefinition of the studies popular culture and the delegitimization of the budgets Conservatives who promulgated the dignifying effect of the practices cultural elite, no less than the degrading of the analysis popular culture.

Discussion

While the very notion of culture is an enigma we have to solve, a first definition of popular culture can be of great help in recognizing the importance of their study as a base from which to understand and perhaps rewrite our position in the world and those who have preceded us. Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson (1991: 3) propose a first arguing that the popular culture definition refers to the set of "beliefs and practices, as well as objects through which they are organized, which are widely shared by a population "[Trad. Mine]. This includes beliefs and foundations popular practices and objects rooted in local traditions, generalized assumptions, concepts and budgets generated by means of wide influence, rooted in different ways social groups, shapes and lifestyle sector, etc.. Of course, here would accommodate the elite cultural forms at a time have been popularized as well as those popular forms have fallen into disuse 1 . Meanwhile, Stuart Hall is close to popular culture three successive definitions. The first, played from the capitalist market perspective, argues that certain things are said to be popular simply because there is a whole market makes widespread use and enjoyment of them: "Certain things are said Because to be popular Masses of people listen to Them, Buy Them, read Them, Them eat, and seem to enjoy Them "(Hall 1981: 231). This design would, thus, in conflict with the other culture that arises from the people themselves. This culture (culture of the people) would be defined in terms of quality and previous quantitative terms. Tony Bennett (1983: 21) understands that this way of referring to "the people", the people, is necessarily emplazaría in an advanced capitalist system, and while Bennett believes that the relationship between commercial culture and a genuine culture people are always based on class relations, which in turn are influenced, according to Hall, by relations of dominance and cultural power, perhaps we would never say that there is a genuine popular culture autonomous and may reside or have resided precisely to margin of power relations.

The second definition is descriptive ...