Digital download is becoming more and more popular as the years go on. It has become part of the music revolution. As revenues for the major record labels are declining, we see an exponential growth from digital music sales. Online store, ITunes, is one of the premier sites that offer digital music. It is now…
In the 1990s, sociologists looking back on the process of globalization, considered whether and if, in how far, a particular nation state could have a leading role in the homogenization of culture. While many scientists, like Featherstone or Smith (cf. Ritzer, 1998, pp. 82-83) deny the dominant role of any nation-state in exporting cultural values,…
Let’s have a look now on what is concerning the McDonaldization four main processes: Calculability, Control, Efficiency and Predictability. The calculability results from the volunteer to create quantity rather than quality, always more and more burgers, more and more restaurants, “Bigger is Better”…The control phase can be understood as monitoring tools to control both employees…
Digital Imaging is still a relatively new medium and has endured much criticism along the way, much more is still to come. But I feel it’s inevitable that it will become a dominant medium for artist in the future. Knowing what the future possibilities are means that you will be at the forefront of the…
During the recent years in the history of modern art, there is one thing that one cannot miss to notice: we see that artists and the media are bound together. One cannot exist without the other. The media feed from the extremes artists, sometimes, go to so that they can deliver a piece of art. And artists survive…
Free editing programs are so simple to use and no specific skills or expensive equipment are required to edit or copy the moving image, giving the public greater ability to copy and edit film. Technology also allows for easier publication and dissemination as well. Almost every film can be accessed via the internet. And, if…
Over the past decade we have seen a large increase in the growth and expansion of the events industry. Although the collapse in economic growth due to the recession has halted the industries progress, the events industry can thank the UK’s previous thriving economy, increase in leisure spending and disposable income for its success in…
Within the last few decades, pop culture has increasingly dominated the different religious view points on a variety of entertainment venues, film being the most prominent in our culture today. In 1988 director, Martin Scorsese and MCA/Universal released one of the most religiously offensives movies to the largest religious community in the United States, The…
Whilst it is always difficult to pinpoint a specific date when a new genre is born, it seems to be widely accepted that the birth date of hip-hop was 1979, when Sugar Hill Gang released Rappers Delight. However that accolade truly belongs to King Tim III with their single You’re my Candy Sweet. Sugar Hill…
What Influence did Black American Music have on the British Working Class Youth in the Sixties? 1960’s Britain was a time of great cultural change. A huge change of the time was the birth of the teenager; children no longer dressed like their parents, opening a huge gap in the market for young people’s fashion.…
1. Using relevant examples, discuss how the development of video as an art form has altered the way the viewer experiences art. (30) Video art come into existence in during the 1960s. Video art is a new art form which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and audio data. What distinguishes this…
Gucci’s advert for the ‘Tattoo Bag’, featured in the November 2008 issue of Vogue UK raises a multitude of questions about the representation of black women in the media. The fact that Rihanna identifies herself with the brand and is a loyal customer can be one of the explanations for this collaboration. However, her representation,…
Cultural diversity policy is one of the few things that unites British cultural institutions today. Every museum and gallery, large and small, has made cultural diversity into a key part of its mission. Funding and policy bodies trumpet this new agenda. The Arts Council’s Cultural Diversity Action Plan reads: ‘There can no longer be any…
Madonna rose to become one of the world’s most famous icons in the early 1980’s at a time when image was becoming a big issue, influencing a whole generation of popular culture and becoming one of the most controversial of music artists to date. In his article ‘Madonna, fashion, and image’ Douglas Kellner (Media Culture…
Critically discuss the emergence of contemporary dance music and club culture. What processes underlay its development and how did these clash with or support mainstream political values? Contemporary dance culture has its roots in 1970s popular music and the subculture of hippies at the time. It has a complex emergence whereby it has been shaped…
The First World War was like no other war the country had seen before, or in fact since. It was a bloodbath, but the need was so great for national support that the truth was so often buried from the public to save them from the real horrors. There was huge pressure for press freedom,…
The seventies was also a period in which a new genre of film emerged, the modern women’s picture (Lewis, 2008, pp. 347-349), which, along with movements of women’s liberation (such as the right to equal pay), had an effect on the way women would view their identity in regards to gender. Whereas becoming a woman…
By concentrating on one, he was unable to understand differences of the other. He was being socialised mainly with an English social identity, with minimal Gujarati cultural influences so as to speed up his acquisition of English. I, in sharp contrast, had to gain understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of the languages and cultures…
Walter Benjamin alludes on this respect and blames popular art for destroying the important uniqueness of art in every sense. The critical view of Walter Benjamin on the modern developments are expressed in his book “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” where he defines the unique existence of a work of…
;Also included in the idea of Moloch are the people who supported the aforementioned institutions “broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven” and the cultural devices that maintained that support. Those with unauthorized views developed genres of resistance of varying effectiveness, sometimes empowering the user but more often achieving nothing but the destruction of their…
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