POPULAR CULTURE

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Chapter 19

• Section 3
• POPULAR CULTURE

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MASS MEDIA

• Federal Communications Commission
• Government agency
• Regulates and licenses
• TV
• Telephone
• Radio
• All communications

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MASS MEDIA

• Television shows
• I Love Lucy
• Mickey Mouse Club

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MASS MEDIA

• Quiz Shows
• 64 Thousand Dollar Question - 1955

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MASS MEDIA

• TV Guide 1953
• TV ads
• Hoola hoop
• Silly putty

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MASS MEDIA

• Stereotypes and Gunslingers
• Women and minorities
• No poverty, diversity, or contemporary issues
• High level of violence
• Glorified the West
• Gunsmoke
• Have Gun Will Travel

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MASS MEDIA

• Newton Minow
• Chair of FCC
• TV vast wasteland

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MASS MEDIA

• Movies
• Larger
• More color
• Stereophonic sound

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SUBCULTURE

• Beat Movement
• Social and literary nonconformity of ARTISTS and
  POETS
• Cared little for material goods

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Allen Ginsberg - Poet
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Jack Kerouac -Novelist
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MUSIC

• Rock n Roll
• Phrase coined by Alan Freed
• Freed was a disc jockey and among the 1st to play
  rock n roll music on the radio

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King of Rock n Roll

• ELVIS PRESLEY

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Black Artists

• Radio medium by which black artists were heard
• TV not as many opportunities for black artists
• CBS first all black soap opera
• Nat King Cole 1st black to have a weekly TV show

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NAT KING COLE