Media Stereotypes on Rave Culture

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Media Stereotypes 2 What is culture? Webster's dictionary defines culture as, ‘the act of developing intellectual ability with education; a form of civilization, particularly the beliefs, arts, and customs". Well then, what is popular culture? Is raving, popular culture? According to Theodore Adorno's view, "culture is only genuinely ‘popular' when it is produced by those designated in such a term as the ‘people', rather than merely consumed by them"(Jarvis, 1998, p.72). This then means that industry …

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