Monday, May 20, 2019

Mass society system

The problem is the fact that society tends o associate coating with concepts, such as fine arts, literature, classical music, philosophy, etc. All these be manifestations which belong to a subsection of culture issuen as spicy culture. Nevertheless, what about other signs of culture, such as telecasting, movies or magazines? ar they not ethnic signs? To my mind, evidently they are. In fact, high and popular culture are closely related, out-of-pocket to the fact that nowadays, most of the manifestations of popular culture are originated In signs of high culture. Certainly, the UK Is not an exception. For that reason. Wrought these nines I would like to prove my point by two examples (one from literature and the other from music) and finally, I will take in you a contrastive perspective with examples of the same plains of study. The first example is related to literature. From conviction immemorial, this field of knowledge has been related to erudite bulk, simply because at very ancient times In history, literature could be known and analyse by literate ones. Clearly, they were not too many In fact, they were a sort of elite. Just wealthy bulk had access to formal education and knew how to read and write properly.However, time went by and being an educated person became more affordable. In most of the constitutions worldwide, being educated is despotic it is a right for everyone. For that reason, in relation to this area, that is to say literature, little by little people started to know the classics such as Homer, Plato, Tolstoy, Verne, among others. In these terms, with Shakespeare. Among their master pieces we quarter find Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights dream, crossroads, Macbeth, and King Lear. Most of them are recognized all over the world for thousands. But, are Shakespearean plant life presented n lowly cultural manifestations?Indeed, there are multiple references of Shakespeare in popular culture. For Instance, there are several movies based on his works like Gnome and Juliet, Shakespeare In love or spry bodies which Is Inspired In the Buff The Vampire Slayer a popular television program in the nineties. Moreover, we can recognize the Shakespearean influence in Disney movies like The Beauty and the sentient being, in which Belle reads to the Beast a quotation from Romeo and Juliet or in the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which the main genius Jack makes clear reference to the scene of the skull in Hamlet.Finally, we have the Lion King, which is but based on Hamlets story since Scar kills his brother (as Claudia kills his brother, the King) then Mafias ghost visits Samba (as the Kings ghost visits Hamlet) and at the end of the movie Samba is encouraged by Timing and Puma to take revenge for his fathers terminal (exactly as Restaurants and Guilelessness did in Hamlet). The second case is located in the field of music. This is the case of Queen, in particular, the case of its vocalist, the grea t Freddy Mercury.Perhaps, now you are wondering, how this contestation and roll musician can be influenced by high culture music? At the very beginning, when he was a child, he was formally trained on delicate in which he was quite skilful. In addition, some people who were closed to him, utter that he used listening classical music like Chopin and Mozart, moreover, he was even pretty enkindle in opera having a large collection of opera recordings. Other example of it was a gossip of one his friends named Chris Smith, who said that Freddy piano style was very Mozart.In fact, in my point of view, this influence is Leary noticeable in songs of his band like Bohemian Rhapsody in which there is an exquisite mixture of rock music, touches of classical piano and the magnificent contributions of the lyrical choir or in the song Love of my life, in which we can listen features of classical music as the arpeggios, which are not very common in rock and roll style. The last two examples are valid according to its own perspective. Nevertheless, there is a unlike point of view, which is related to a social system known as Mass society.People, who have studied this system, have established that high culture has en replaced by low culture. This cultural replacement has been helped, enormously, by mass media or the widespread of popular education. These ones have caused a progressive deterioration in populations tastes, that is to say, that socio-economic class after year peoples tastes are more unsophisticated and that is the reason why they replace high cultural elements for those which are part of the popular tradition. For instance, a quite clear example of this situation is the amount of people who listen to classical music.In fact, a survey of The Readers Digest says things like a thirty three recent of people have never listened to classical music, or that a thirty nine percent of the survey respondents, distinguish that they do not like listening to this type of music. Other good evidence of it could be the option for some books, especially, Best sellers. The best example is Harry Potter. This saga is one of the most successful in the I-J and in the whole world adolescents were avid to read every single word.However, would have they the same trust to read the classics of literature by themselves? According to this, we could confirm that popular culture is not reflected n high cultural manifestations, there is not a kind of legacy or continuity from one to the other, there is Just a substitution process sadly, high culture has been left aside. As a conclusion, done the development of the present document and taking undeniable that elements related to the field of high arts such as literature, classical music, visual arts, etc. Re manifested in expressions of popular culture like movies, television programs, newspapers, magazines, among others. Even though, it is important to take under consideration, that there is not Just one perspect ive in relation to this matter. In addition, we have the point of view according to the phenomenon of Mass society system, which indicates that, progressively, low culture is replacing high cultural manifestations reducing populations taste.

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