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ENEZETA
presents
Important concepts in cultural studies
An Introduction
High Culture
A set of cultural products/practices and/or manifestations highly esteemed by a culture.
The best that has been said and thought in the world. (Matthew Arnold)
The culture of an elite group.
THE Arts
High culture can be said to exist in opposition to...
...popular culture
•A culture of the people...
...for the people.
popular culture
A culture widely favored by many people.
•The culture left over after leaving out what is considered high culture.
popular culture
popular culture
HIGH
LOW
In postmodern theory, the fuzzy terrain between
high and low cultures.
popular culture
•The site of struggle between forces of resistance and of incorporation, between dominant and subordinate cultures/classes (Antonio Gramsci).
HEGEMONY
popular culture
A culture that is commercially produced to be consumed by a mass of non-discriminating
consumers.
counter-culture/kountrklchr/
•A culture with values and mores that run counter to those of established society.
OR...
MAINSTREAM
A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or
at variance with the prevailing social norm.
counter-culture/kountrklchr/
for example
sub-culture(s)
Ken Gelder proposed key ways in which subcultures can be
identified:
6
sub-culture(s)
By virtue of their negative relation to
work. Subcultures are thus seen as
parasitic, at play or at leisure
1
sub-culture(s)
By virtue of a negative or
ambivalent relation to class. Subcultures refuse to be seen as
being class-conscious or as being defined
by class.
2
sub-culture(s)
By virtue of an association
with/to a defined territory.
3
sub-culture(s)
By virtue of their non-domestic forms of
association.
4
sub-culture(s)
By virtue of a refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and massification.
5
sub-culture(s)
Subcultures adopt particular styles in fashion/clothing, language and behavior and attach a certain symbolism and/or ideology to these elements.
6
CAN YOU THINK OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE
THAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A "SUBCULTURE"?
urban tribes
GothsGanguroFloggersRavers
RudeboysAcidheadsSkinheads
Nation BrothersRaggasEmos
Where would you say these cultural
TEXTS belong?
make-up
comics
rockblues
wine
Mohawks
punk music
ShakespeareNike shoes
jeans
classical music
leather jacketsMadonna
Keith Haring’s paintings
A Hundred Years of Solitude
movies
opera jazz
• Baker, Chris. Cultural Studies. 3rd Ed.
• Gelner, Ken. Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice.
• Storey, John. An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture.
• Music: Easy Jam by Kevin MacLeod. http://incompetech.com
• Images: Counterculture and subculture: wikipedia except anarchism (anarchism.net)Presentation by Nahirana Zambrano
Cultura y Sociedad_InglésEnglish Department
School of Modern LanguagesUniversity of Los Andes, Venezuela
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