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Popular culture
The vernacular or people's culture that prevails in a modern society.
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blues
Culture; Popular culture
A state of mind and a music which gives voice to it, the blues evolved from the folk music of black Americans. Usually slow and melancholy, and with a 12-bar structure, most blues are sung laments on ...
boogie-woogie
Culture; Popular culture
A style of blues piano, at the height of its popularity in the 193Os. Fast and energetic, it featured a rolling left-hand bass pattern.
chain store
Culture; Popular culture
One of a group of shops under the same company name, ownership and management.
consumer society
Culture; Popular culture
One that sets very high value on the consumption of goods and services.
convention
Culture; Popular culture
The agreed or customary method by which something is represented; for example, that "white" is "good" and "black" is "bad".
counter-cultural
Culture; Popular culture
Opposed to the mainstream, different to the usual or the expected, and of ten subversive; see anti-establishment, hippy.
