Abstract

It used to be the case that popular culture wasn’t taken too seriously. Now the opposite seems to apply. Whereas once popular culture was dismissed and condemned as mass culture, without the specific characteristics of distinct and subtle forms being given their due and required consideration, now nearly every manifestation of popular culture, every nuance, every gesture, is made to bear an interpretational load it cannot always carry. Once popular culture was important enough to condemn but not important enought to take seriously. Now its importance is such that, on occasion, it may be taken too seriously.

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