Manifestations Of Popular Culture Research Articles

Dangdut Koplo as a Manifestation of Popular Culture In Indonesia

One of the original works of Indonesians is dangdut music, more specifically, dangdut koplo. Dangdut music continues to grow, and the coming of dangdut koplo is accompanied by the human invention of information and communication technology, namely social media. This technology has succeeded in having a positive impact on the work of the nation, namely spreading dangdut koplo to all corners of the islands and even to the corners of the world. The objective of this simple piece of writing is to highlight a popular culture that occurs in Indonesia. One of the results of human thought, especially that of the people of East Java, in terms of art, especially music, can be a type of music that is light, pleasing to the ear, favored by people of all ages, strata, and social statuses, is able to eliminate all kinds of barriers in society, and can be an alternative form of entertainment. The objective of the study is to describe a new culture which emerged from the grassroot but it attracts international attention. The method used is the observation of communication phenomena that occur in society and literature study, which are then linked into propositions that can be used as subjects for the development of the scientific repertoire of culture and communication. It can be concluded that the emergence of dangdut koplo is clear evidence that everyone can produce a work that can be enjoyed by many people and can become a new culture in society that does not discredit previous works but instead strengthens and perfects previous great works.

Exploring the Popular Culture in the Works of Young Philippine Novelists

This research paper will discuss the manifestation of popular culture in the works of young Filipino novelists. It will focus on the novels of three young Filipino novelists in the Philippines. The three Filipino novels are Peksman (Mamatay Ka Man) Nagsisinungaling Ako (at Iba Pang Kuwentong Kasinungalingan na Di Dapat Paniwalaan) by Eros S. Atalia, published in 2007; Lumbay ng Dila by Genevieve L. Asenjo, published in 2010 and Sa Kasunod ng 909 by Edgar Calabia Samar, published in 2012. These three novels were prizewinners and received citations in the Philippines. All of the authors of these three novels became fellows of the International Writing Program (IWP) of the University of Iowa. The primary objectives of this research paper are: to explore the manifestations of popular culture in the selected three novels from the Philippines as works and practices of intellectual and incredibly artistic activity of young Filipino novelists and to build a new understanding and reading of the works of young novelists of the current generation in the Philippines. The methods in exploring and investigating the manifestations of popular culture will be based on the perspectives on popular culture of the Filipino scholar Rhoderick Nuncio that explains that the manifestation of popular culture is the enlivening with popular things, technology, images, symbols, signs, and commodities in people experiences to be awakened in the rapid changes of civilization. The presence of popular culture in the selected novels highlight their recurring nature and their impact on society. Finding showed that popular culture is a complex and ever-changing phenomenon that occurs uniquely in place and time, representing a complex of mutually interdependent perspectives and values. Selected Novels written by young Philippine novelists have a significant impact for both culture and language.

The Art of the Masses: Overviews on the Collective Visual Heritage through Convolutional Neural Networks

In the context of a society saturated in images, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), pre-trained using from the visual information contained in many thousands of images, constitute a tool that is of great use in helping us to organize the visual heritage, thus offering a route of entry that would otherwise be impossible. One of the responsibilities of the contemporary artist is to adopt a position that will help to provide sense, to project meaning onto the accumulation of images that we are faced with. The artificial neuronal network ResNet-50 has been used in order to extract the visual characteristics of large sets of images from the internet. Textual searches have been carried out on social issues such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrations around the world, and manifestations of popular culture, and the image descriptors obtained have been the input for the algorithm t-SNE. In this way, we produce large visual maps composed of thousands of images and arranged following the criteria of formal similitude, displaying the visual patterns of the archetypes of specific semantic categories. The method of filing and recovering our collective memory must have a correlation with the technological and scientific advances of our time, in order for us to progressively discover new horizons of knowledge.

Companhias de Arlequins: o resgate de uma tradição popular esquecida nas feiras de Lisboa

ABSTRACT In Lisbon, the fairs and their amusements were one of the most popular manifestations of popular culture during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Among the entertainment on offer, theater was one of the most appreciated, but history has only kept the memory of the shacks that, in the fairs, began to feature a recited repertoire (comedies, parodies, magic and revues). The tents of harlequins and saltimbancos, itinerant troupes that went from place-toplace performing acrobatics, pantomimes, and comic sketches, were forgotten. This article aims to highlight popular theater practices that were once ‘forgotten’, such as the troupes of harlequins and their shows, redefining their importance in the context of the time and the history of theater in Portugal.

Revealing the Elements of Popular Culture in the Coffee Shop Industries in Tembalang Sub-District, Semarang

Coffee Shop is not only a commodity in the process of economic development. It is also a part of popular culture, particularly for those who adore looking for leisure time and a new consumptive and dynamic identity. Starbucks coffee culture has been becoming a parameter of popular coffee culture almost worldwide, including in Indonesia. Tembalang is one of the sub-districts in Semarang that provides a lot of coffee shops, both modern and semi-modern coffee shops, that have become a manifestation of popular culture. The main issues in this research are why the new coffee culture is developed among coffee shop industries and how the coffee shops show a new identity by embracing parts of the global coffee culture. The qualitative method is applied to examine the research problem that focuses intensely regarding social and cultural phenomena in the coffee shop industries in Tembalang. Data sources are obtained through reviewing related academic literature and material from the trusted social media. The aim of the research is to reveal the popular culture reflected in production and consumption among coffee shops and coffee drinkers. By this analysis, the writer has examined that coffee shops in Tembalang carry out a process of glocalization and creolization in adopting a global coffee culture. Yet, it still points out the value of the local culture.

The folk as a resource in the construction of the tourism image of Alto Minho (Portugal)

"Based on the analysis of the discourse (s) on Portuguese folklore and the rescue of the past and the traditions through the invention/ reinvention of the cultural heritage, the objectives of the research are focused on the study and the valorization of folklore while An an important resource that shapes the image of Minho (Northern Portugal). We also propose to identify some of the most representative folk groups and to analyze the repercussions of the use of these manifestations of popular culture, especially the traditional dances and songs of the Alto Minho region (Portugal), in the formulation of the image of the destination, with special incidence in the district of Viana Of the Castle Viana do Castelo. We also propose to ascertain to what extent these folkloric manifestations have broadened their function of affirming the cultural identity of the receiving community. And how can we discuss an eventual deconstruction of the identity brought about by tourism? Taking into account the epistemological framework of the Social Sciences, we propose to adopt fundamentally the qualitative/ deductive methodologies since we will start from a documentary collection and analysis of the folklorist discourse (s), plus the unstructured and open data collection, namely open interviews and observation participant. The research design follows an ethnographic matrix with the use of deductive methodologies, and the guiding thread of the narrative presents a duality of the way folklore is conceived, an analysis that focuses on the confrontation and overlap of the so‑called “paradigm of recomposition” Which formulates it as a representation of past customs and tradition and the pattern of ‘stylization’ which expresses folklore as an ‘object’ in itself."

Do barro à arte: experiências de diálogo entre a extensão universitária e a cultura popular

O presente trabalho, fruto de um relato de experiência, almeja refletir sobre a extensão universitária como meio de (re)conhecimento da cultura popular regional. No cerne de um projeto extensionista, os conhecimentos da Ginástica Para Todos (GPT) foram desenvolvidos de forma reflexiva e crítica, dando vida a coreografia intitulada “Do barro à arte”, a qual tematizou a produção de cerâmica no Vale do Jequitinhonha. O (re)conhecimento e a apropriação da cultura regional foram realizadas de distintas formas, em especial, por meio de visita técnica realizada na cidade de Araçuaí/MG, onde, a partir dos relatos dos ceramistas, compreendemos as histórias e os modos de vida dos artesãos/artistas. Tais vivências perpassaram o corpo e compuseram a apresentação final, destacando a singularidade, a beleza e a potência da cerâmica do Vale, valorizando, sobretudo, essa rica manifestação da cultura popular.

Luna Celta historical re-enactment, central Spain: Iron Age alive!

ABSTRACT Historical re-enactments can be understood as contemporary manifestations of popular culture. Thus, such events become outstanding social contexts for exploring the social and political foundations of ‘bottom-up’ narratives concerning the past. In this paper, we analyse the Luna Celta festival in Solosancho (Ávila province, Spain) as a case study for considering the public reception of the Iron Age in this region. For this purpose we have constructed our theoretical and methodological approach based on public archaeology and heritage studies literature. Materiality and performance as resources deployed by amateur actors are revealed as extremely effective ways of disseminating and naturalising non-academic discourses on the Iron Age, according to our ethnographic account. In contrast, scientific initiatives promoted by archaeologists show more limited success in reaching lay audiences. On-going heritagisation processes around local Iron Age sites (such as the oppidum of Ulaca) and the Vettones are also analysed, assessing the diverse agendas of the different stakeholders involved in the festival.

Corridos, Tequila (and others), and Mexican/Chicano Masculinity

The Mexican corrido is one of the most popular cultural manifestations both in the United States and Mexico. From its origins in the mid-nineteenth century, the corrido has dealt with “people’s stuff,” such as war, love, honor, immigration and/or belonging to a land, among other everyday life issues. The corrido is, in short, a symbol of identity and belonging, and can be considered a marker of the Mexican identity on both sides of the border. In this sense, it is to be expected that the corrido, as an expression of “people’s stuff,” voices the relevance of a “national” symbol. In the same way, tequila is regarded, at least internationally, as directly related to “lo mexicano/chicano,” and in many cases also to Mexican/Chicano masculinity. Starting from this premise, the aim of this article is to observe the presence of tequila and its significance as a symbol of “lo mexicano/chicano” in the work of Los Tigres del Norte, one of the most prominent corrido bands, both locally and internationally.

O patrimônio artístico e cultural do estado do Espírito Santo, a reformulação do ensino da arte a partir da Base Nacional Comum Curricular e o uso da tecnologia na prática educativa

O presente artigo apresenta a reelaboração do currículo do estado do Espírito Santo- Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental, no componente curricular Arte, sua interação com a educação multicultural e com o uso da tecnologia no ensino. A revisão do currículo de Arte pela abrangência da Base Nacional Comum Curricular desperta para uma educação que dialogue com as diversidades locais em interação com diferentes culturas nacionais e internacionais. Nesse processo a tecnologia se torna uma ferramenta e uma linguagem de aproximação da cultura diversa entre estudantes de diferentes partes do estado, além de proporcionar a apreciação estética e a interação virtual com obras de artes e de manifestações da cultura popular do estado do Espírito Santo.

Dragging up the past

Drag performances at bars, clubs, pageants and shebeens are wildly popular in South Africa. This can be gauged by the number of websites and posts on various media platforms. However, despite these popular cultural manifestations of drag, academic interest in theorising drag is limited. In this article I attempt to ignite academic interest in theorising drag in the South African context. The reason why I use the term 'ignite' is that after an extensive data base search I only found four published articles on drag, the last of which was published in 2004. In addition, no South African gay and lesbian non-fiction book has included a discussion of drag since Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (1994), edited by Gevisser and Cameron. The five chapters on drag in Defiant Desire have been used by the researchers above to corroborate or illustrate their arguments about drag in South Africa but have never before been the object of an academic investigation. In this article I 'drag up the past' by foregrounding the five chapters on drag from Defiant Desire and I investigate in particular how the language used by the various writers positions the role and place of the drag queen in political and personal political discourses of the time.

McLuhanian Perspective of Facebook

As we live in the epoch of popular culture, it is very important to understand it and study its dimensions as well as their influences upon society. Technology is a very salient manifestation of popular culture that has brought substantial changes to the world. Thus, we have to be aware of the effects and the potential effects that technology may have upon us. One type of technology is Facebook which is the most popular social network website in terms of the number of members and visitors. As a virtual society, Facebook is growing more and more popular day by day. In this article, Facebook, as a technological medium, is going to be measured and explained according to Marshall McLuhan's perspective of media and technology. Therefore, we will try to explain, in McLuhan's words, how Facebook is considered a "message" as well as a "cool" or "hot" medium. In addition, there will be an attempt to discerning the reasons why people are very attached to such a virtual social life

Manliness in Sino-Malay publications in the Netherlands Indies

This study investigates constructions of manliness in the late-colonial Netherlands Indies (1870s–1930s), with particular reference to the so-called ‘Sino-Malay’ novels and newspapers produced by its local-born, culturally hybrid Chinese population (Peranakan). These authors incorporated ideas from South East Asia as well as China and Europe in their works, providing insights in traditional notions of heteronormative manhood, but also exposing major reconfigurations of gender within the diverse conditions of modernity. Their writings thus provide an underexplored vista into a remarkably diverse society in transition. I will centre on words used in the Malay vernacular to characterize men and male behaviour. This serves as a springboard to explore three interconnected themes surrounding manliness in Sino-Malay publications: violence, sexuality, and modernity. As will be shown, several constructions of gender and manifestations of popular culture associated with modern Indonesia were rooted in the same discourse as these colonial-era works.

GEOGRAFIA DOS SONS NÃO ESQUIZOFÔNICOS NA REGIÃO DO RECIFE: CULTURA POPULAR E COTIDIANO URBANO - DOI 10.5216/bgg.v36i1.40377

Este artigo aborda a espessura de manifestações da cultura popular recifense, os chamados sons não esquizofônicos, surgidos e disseminados a despeito das possibilidades técnicas que constituem o fenômeno da esquizofonia – o rompimento entre a origem e a emissão sonora. Durante a pesquisa, foram fundamentais, além do levantamento bibliográfico, os trabalhos de campo: visitas técnicas e entrevistas semiestruturadas. Foram abordadas a tipologia e a topologia das manifestações não esquizofônicas no Recife, abrigadas, sobretudo, na periferia metropolitana. Enfocou-se o recente adensamento em torno do maracatu na capital pernambucana, e esmiuçaram-se os nexos entre cultura popular e paisagem sonora no bairro dos Coelhos. Trata-se de uma análise do território usado, lançando um olhar sobre o cotidiano de uma metrópole marcada, a um só tempo, tanto por desigualdade socioterritorial, quanto por riqueza e diversidade culturais.Palavras-chave: Uso do Território, Cultura Popular, Esquizofonia, Paisagem Sonora, Recife.

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Several strategies of control of child’s environment had as pretext the risks that, it was said, had the early discover of sexuality for the health and the education of the moral character of children. These strategies form part of what Michel Foucault calls the dispositive of sexuality. However, there were situations and spaces of difficult surveillance for the agents of authority: the encounters with other kids at the school and the streets, the contact with adults different from the parents and teachers, as well as the exposition of the children to manifestations of popular culture perceived as dangerous: songs, jokes, shows and books. Based on the compared analysis of ninety of the most representative reading texts for the primary school of this period, in both countries, this paper points out the strategies that the agents of authority used for reaching the blind spots of children’s routines. It was found that, even though during the entire period culturally controlled territories were settled, the outlines of these spaces changed according with the consolidation of the values of the emerging and progressive urban reality. It was concluded the chosen period is significant as transit for the social validation of intimacy and individuality. How to reference this article Serrano Lopez, F. G. (2015). Estrategias para acceder a los puntos ciegos del dispositivo de sexualidad en los libros de lectura para ninos en Espana y Colombia entre 1900 y 1960. Espacio, Tiempo y Educacion , 2(1), pp. 141-162. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14516/ete.2015.002.001.008

Not craft, not couture, not ‘home sewing’: teaching creative patternmaking to the iPod generation

Students in apparel programmes today are denizens of a world of computers, social media, and popular culture manifestations such as Project Runway. They have a different focus and different expectations and skills than students from previous generations. Current textbooks and teaching methods for apparel patternmaking were developed by and for these previous generations, and are rooted in the era of home economics. As educators we need to rethink how we introduce students to creative technical apparel design. The methods discussed here were developed over the last 30 years and evolved based on frequent student feedback. Teaching methods that resonate best with current students emphasise the conceptual, visual, and practical; they focus on the creative process and individual development. Exercises are important, but only to introduce basic concepts. Assignments quickly shift to individual creative projects. Technology skills are increasingly important, but the teacher's role is to guide and assess the learning process.

RELATIONS BETWEEN POPULAR CULTURE, CAPITAL AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF SÃO LUIZ PARAITINGA – SP – BRAZIL

The preservation of cultural manifestations relevant to popular culture represents an important strategy for preserving social cohesion of a community. This action is strategic for the implementation of initiatives related to sustainable development adequate to promote quality of life and historical memory relevant to the consolidation of social cohesion. This paper results from research that discusses the correlation between popular culture, social capital and sustainable development, discussing the preservation of popular manifestations in the context of urbanization in Brazil. Sao Luiz do Paraitinga was chosen for the research because this city has a great number of popular culture manifestations. The research has exploratory and descriptive historical approach to evaluate the relationship between popular culture, social capital and sustainable development in relation to the intense urbanization in Brazil. It appears that preservation of these manifestations of popular culture, features from the city chosen as object of this research, are related to the existence and accumulation of social capital among residents, aspect that promotes local development.

Multilingualism in transformative spaces: contact and conviviality

South Africa is a highly mobile country characterized by historical displacements and contemporary mobilities, both social and demographic. Getting to grips with diversity, dislocation, relocation and anomie, as well as pursuing aspirations of mobility, is part of people’s daily experience that often takes place on the margins of conventional politics. A politics of conviviality is one such form of politics of the popular that emerges in contexts of rapid change, diversity, mobility, and the negotiation and mediation of complex affiliations and attachments. The questions in focus for this paper thus pertain to how forms of talk, born out of displacement, anomie and contact in the superdiverse contexts of South Africa, allow for the articulation of life-styles and aspirations that break with the historical faultlines of social and racial oppression. We first expand upon the idea of (marginal) linguistic practices as powerful mediations of political voice and agency, an idea that can be captured in the notion of linguistic citizenship, the rhetorical foundation of a politics of conviviality. We then move on to analyze the workings of linguistic citizenship in the multilingual practices of two distinct manifestations of popular culture, namely hip hop and a performance by a stand-up comedian in Mzoli’s meat market in Gugulethu, Cape Town. The paper concludes with a general discussion on the implications for politics of multilingualism and language policy.

A formação de um mestre: saberes em circulação na cultura popular

Seu Zezinho, renowned Santeria priest from Alto de Santa Izabel, in Recife, was, when young, a brincante (member of folkloric group) of the Cambinda Estrela maracatu (Brazilian folkloric dance/rhythm) as a caboclo de lanca (spear caboclo). But he is also a great master of coco (another Brazilian folkloric dance/ rhythm), and, when interviewing him, we were surprised by the complex cultural network in which a singer is embedded before he is considered a master - a network that involves a learning and knowledge transmission relation among generations. The goal of this paper is to discuss those sociocultural networks in which are embedded the brincantes from several manifestations of popular culture in Recife, related to sociocultural links established not only in the city, especially in the North side, but that also reach rural areas with sugarcane crops, thus crossing state lines. At the same time, it is indispensable to analyze the transmission processes of such wisdom, which are essential for the development of a master, requiring expertise and, above all, knowledge of and inclusion in those networks.

‘Hollywood's hot dads’: tabloid, reality and scandal discourses of celebrity post-feminist fatherhood

This article offers post-feminism as a critical framework for understanding the phenomenon of celebrity fatherhood as it has been widely articulated through the channels of tabloid media, celebrity reality TV and the discourse of scandal. A heavily paternalised presence within the tabloid media has become increasingly central to the sustainability of a coherent public identity for innumerable male celebrities in contemporary media culture, including film and cable television celebrities, among them Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey, Jude Law, Snoop Dogg and Hulk Hogan. The post-feminist paternalisation of mediated masculinity in celebrity culture has increasingly permeated a growing arena of representational outlets, and while cinematic stardom remains one of the most visible popular cultural manifestations of this phenomenon, the popular cultural breadth and scope of these representations and personifications have expanded and converged exponentially alongside wider trends in the distribution and consumption of media texts, so that celebrity post-feminist fatherhood is widely discursively circulated in the realms of reality tv, celebrity gossip magazines and online celebrity forums and blogs. The examples of celebrity post-feminist fatherhood under the analytical purview of this paper are indicative of a major trend within the tabloid culture of the contemporary media, which increasingly function as a space for popular cultural ephemera to play out currently pertinent and discursively apposite gender concerns. For male celebrities, it has become increasingly necessary to showcase their heteronormativity through tabloid profiles that characterise their fatherhood as ‘sexy’, in order to meet the requirements of hegemonic masculinity in post-feminism, and for individuals whose celebrity is flagging to recuperate their status through revitalising and currently culturally apposite means of mediating their paternity.