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, television and radio broadcasts, prints and
photographs, motion pictures, newspapers, and a variety of artifacts and
archives.
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