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Popular Culture: World
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[One] source of popular culture lies in the set of professional communities that provide the public with facts about the world, frequently accompanied by interpretation. These include the news media, and scientific and scholarly communities. The news media mines the work of scientists and scholars and conveys it to the general public, often emphasizing "factoids" that have inherent appeal or the power to amaze. For instance, giant pandas have become prominent known items of popular culture; parasitic worms, though of greater practical importance, have not.
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The term "popular culture" was not in contemporary use during the early modern period, when political and social structure was understood in reference to three orders or estates. The closest contemporary equivalent of "the people" would have been the Third Estate or the commoners, a social conglomeration of urban burghers and rural peasants, as well as any other persons belonging neither to the nobility nor the clergy. Reference was made to the common man or the community, and the elite/intellectual perception of their customs and practices ranged from the paternal curiosity of Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) to the satire of artists like Peter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) and the disdain of the moralist Sebastian Brant (1458?–1521), who presented a mirror of immoral behavior in a world gone mad in his Das Narrenschiff (1494; The ship of fools). One common allegory of contemporary social structure is the famous Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), which depicted society as the torso of the king, itself composed of thousands of people, his subjects. In this allegory, the rulers and clergy made up the head, the noble warriors the arms, and the masses the visceral lower body parts.
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One collection that has items relevant to popular culture in the 1940s is the James Gillespie collection. Although the majority of the collection contains business records of the Nashville commercial flight center and its flight instructor program that operated during World War II, the collection ... has items regarding popular culture. Gillespie collected numerous aviation related magazines and many of them have advertisements that depict soldiers and propaganda from the period. Some of the titles of the 1940s magazines are Aviation Magazine and AERO Digest.
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[P]opular culture doesn't want you to have to sweat a lot in getting it, either. Stay on your couch and change channels, stay in your car and eat healthily, stay home alone and reach out and touch someone, stay on your Exercycle and listen to a good book. Popular culture has discovered the secret of perpetual motion in the age of relativity: stay in one place and everything will come to you. Around the world in thirty minutes - just stay tuned.
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In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the relationship between religion and popular culture has become more tangled, and more contradictory. During the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, the Cold War ideology that saw the world divided into forces of good (capitalism) and evil (communism), played a huge role in shaping pop culture—think James Bond—as well as nurturing the kind of militaristic Christianity that continues to emanate from the White House today.
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One commentator has suggested this "self-referentiality" reflects the advancing encroachment of popular culture into every realm of collective experience. "Instead of referring to the real world, much media output devotes itself to referring to other images, other narratives; self-referentiality is all-embracing, although it is rarely taken account of."[7]
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