Territories of Practice 2012
 POP Culture

Pop culture may also be described as mass culture or popular culture or majority culture. Something common that is, a popular and prevalent among the general population in the community. It includes such things as sports, entertainment, lifestyle, music, including pop music, literature, media and visual arts. Food can also be a popular culture.

 The content of popular culture is due to daily events, desires and needs that make the lives of most of the population- mainstream. Now it is stated that Popular culture is the opposite of traditional culture. For me its a contentious question. Traditional can become popular as well as the other way round.
 

 
' Popular culture is often viewed as being trivial and dumbed-down in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, and corrupted.' -from Wikipedia


Painting of Mona Lisa by Fernando Botero and collage of former street magician Larry Moss (made out of the balloons) example how traditional becomes popular.

Something that is well known and traditional becomes part of the POP culture. Its like demotivators  nowadays - makes people recognise things that usually not noticeable in everyday life and look at it with irony and humour.

things related  :

subculture, cultural icon(s), fads, high and low cultures, public approval, pop art, pop icon, any word with POP base, Trash culture,
media in any represented ways.. and many more..

The aims of this blog its to:

• create a contemporary definition of Popular culture by deconstructing whats already there unpick and unpack
• create a deeper understanding of what these terms mean to us and their relationships to our practices 
• create a journey all the way through 

• either add something new or create a new Wikipedia page on this.

Pop culture is all around us. It leaps from magazine headings, glows from the cathode ray tubes of our televisions, and flickers across the screens of our mall multiplexes. We swim in it like fish in water, usually oblivious to its effects. Yet how often do we really think about it critically?

these are the pictures i found on line by typing in 'pop culture' it gives a clear idea of its stereotype thinking of it being something very bright and colourful. Something that's "POP" into your eyes. Not much of the details and again bright colours! Playful and with humour.

  Lady GAGA = pop culture?

video of lady GAGA's interview on ellen show and she is saying that 'popular culture is our religion'.