Popular Culture Popular culture is defined here as popular written literature and broadcasting, popular music, consumer products (everything from trash compacters to video games, from cars to religious videos), popular dance and theater, video games, certain decorative arts, sports and recreation, and other cultural aspects of social life distinguished by their broad-based presence across ethnic, social, and regional groupings. For students of popular culture, books and magazines are important, as are music and recorded sound, …
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…my original American culture and landing in this interstitial space. Being American, I know how these American cultural items appear in America, and what they mean there. At the same time, being here allows me to see the slippage, the differences in how the same items are located, used, rejected, and altered in another culture. The concept of hegemony is quite complicated and the more I inspect those interstitial spaces, the more problematic they appear.