Popular Culture
Folk culture refers to the collection of "songs, tales, proverbs, jokes" that reflect a specific segment of society -- and can often refer to the expressions of marginalized groups like African-Americans. Popular culture is more mainstream, and is fabricated and consumed by the dominant culture. It would include newspapers, magazines, and books propagated throughout a country, as opposed to folk culture, which would be localized (either geographically or, if the group is geographically spread out, culturally). According to Levine, popular culture is "seen as the antithesis of folk culture."[footnoteRef:1] There is also an impression that popular culture lacks the authenticity of folk culture in capturing the spirit of the people. As Levine puts it, popular culture does not emanate from the community but is created artificially for consumption by the community and usually with financial motives. For historians and other researchers, popular culture, "if it has to be invoked at all, should be used primarily to represent the consciousness of its producers, not its consumers."[footnoteRef:2] Popular culture is criticized for being both crass in its quality and hegemonic in its intent and impact.[footnoteRef:3] [1: Levine 1370] [2: Levine 1370] [3: Levine]
Popular culture certainly is not perceived of as art. Thus, it often takes a strong justification to invoke popular culture in scholarship. Yet Levine claims that there are earnest academic uses of popular culture. While popular culture is qualitatively distinct from folk culture, it "functions in ways similar to folk culture and acts as a form of folklore for people living in urban industrial societies."[footnoteRef:4] The debate over the value of popular culture in scholarship is in many ways reflective of a concurrent debate about the differential value of pop art and high or fine art.[footnoteRef:5] [4: Levine 1372] [5: University of Calgary, Red Deer]
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