Popular culture

Popular culture

The vernacular or people's culture that prevails in a modern society.

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Originally a religious image to be revered, now used to refer to an established and immediately recognizable image to which considerable cultural or symbolic weight is attached: eg to refer to John ...

iconography

Culture; Popular culture

A system of grouping of conventional visual signals by which audiences identify the genre, period or other classification to which an object in popular culture belongs: eg the clothes and settings ...

ideology

Culture; Popular culture

The system of beliefs, perceptions and feelings in a particular culture, much of it so deeply ingrained in the forms, structures and myths of that culture that people regard it as common sense.

jazz

Culture; Popular culture

Any of the various 2Oth-century styles of rhythmical, syncopated musk, mainly instrumental and often improvised; the black American musicians of New Orleans are usually credited with its origination. ...