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Just for fun? Language choice in German popular music
After World War II, West Germany, in its search for a post-Nazi identity, encountered the emerging hegemony of the United States, the political and military leader of the Western world whose cultur...(Continue Reading) The Genre Preferences of Western Popular Music by Japanese Adolescents
Tastes of Japanese adolescents in Western popular music supports the notion of 'taste cultures' in between mass culture and individual choice. A survey ......(Continue Reading)Spice World: constructing femininity the popular way
Introduction The Spice Girls--a British manufactured all-female pop group had an unprecedented success in the global popular music market of 1997....(Continue Reading)Drowning in music - author argues that we are awash in sound at the expense of quality - Column
We are more musically sophisticated than ever before. But, argues Joseph Bottum, the relentless soundtracking of our lives has left us saturated in meaningless noise The first time anyone acknowl...(Continue Reading)Popular music is plural
Some theorists claim that industrial mass production, saturation advertising and the mass media caused the massification of popular culture in industrial ......(Continue Reading)
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