1. Popular Culture

2. Pop Culture Popular Culture _________________________________________
Read more to find out…..
Examples where we can identify pop culture
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Pop Culture

3. This weekend, did you…. Jog while listening to a IPOD?
Listen to music on your radio?
Watch TV?
Read a newspaper?
Eat a McDonald’s hamburger?
Go to a bar or movie?
Shop at the mall?
Participate in a sport activity?
If so, you did the things that most people in Western societies do with their free time….these are examples of popular culture.

4. Discussion
What were particular pastimes of when YOU were younger?....but are not so popular now…..

5. Popular Culture Defined
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Pop Culture

6. Cultures Defined Popular Culture
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High Culture
Folk Culture

7. What does Popular Culture tell us?
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8. Popular Culture Characteristics
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Pop Culture

9. Television Hub of popular culture.
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10. Television ________________________________________
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11. Top 10 Click here to see the Top Syndicated TV Shows
Click here to see the Top Broadcast TV Shows
Click here to see the Top Cable TV Shows

12. Why is Television So Popular?
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13. Findings of Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi
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14. Discussion: Subject Television”
Has watching TV made life better or worse for us in the United States?

15. TV Turn Off Week

16. Theme & Amusement Parks
Traditional amusement parks vs today’s theme parks.

17. Newspapers, Magazines and Books
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Why do people read a newspaper? Magazine? Book?

18. Films
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19. Films Top 10 Movies of All-Time Current Box Office Hits All Time Hits
1929: ________________________________________________________________________________________________
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1998: 23,000 walk-in theaters and 800 drive-ins.
Drive-in tour
History of drive-in

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Films
Video rentals ....
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21. What are some popular activities that Americans do in their leisure time?
U. S.
MTSU

22. Discussion: Subject: “Pop culture differences”
What is popular in one area may not be popular in another…based on the ‘culture’ of the area.
Discuss what is popular in the US and why
Discuss something that may only be pop culture in the south as opposed to the north or vice versa