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1. Popular Culture
   Popular Culture (Germany) Serious study of popular culture is usually concerned more with long-term trends than with sudden convulsions. But the impact of the short-lived upheavals of 1848-49 deserves attention because this brief period of unprecedented legal and political permissiveness revealed some of the tensions in mid-century German society that were normally concealed under a blanket of official repression. One striking feature of the revolutionary years was the obvious upsurge for spontaneous association. Large open gatherings (
2. Popular Music -- Artists
   The 25-year old Jewel has been acclaimed as one of the most gifted and accomplished artists in popular music today. Her 1995 ebut album, PIECES OF YOU, spent a remarkable 114 weeks on the Billboard 200, where it reached the #4 spot on the chart. Recently certified nine-times platinum by the RIAA, the album includes hit singles "You Were Meant For Me," "Who Will Save Your Soul," and "Foolish Games." SPIRIT, Jewel's second album, was released by Atlantic in November 1998 and amde its debut at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album, which features the hit singles "Hands," and "Down So Long," has been certified RIAA triple-platinum and is about to hit the four million mark in U.S. sales. Jewel brings even a little more joy to the world with her all-new Christmas collection. Produced by the legendary Arif Mardin (Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, & Chaka Khan) the holiday set features the singer performing such seasonal favorites as "Silent Night," "Hark!
3. Popular Music -- Bands
   Popular music in Kenya encompasses a wide range of styles of both local and international origin. Among Kenyans, language is one of the crucial factors in defining their music. There are over 40 regional languages in Kenya and musicians from at least a quarter of these (usually, those with the largest populations) are making recordings in their mother tongues. Along the streets of Nairobi, songs in Luo, Luhya, Kamba, and Kikuyu can be heard blaring from the cassette sellers' sidewalk stands as they compete for the attention of passers by. Bands with this regional orientation are, no doubt, the majority in Kenya. However, not all Kenyan musicians play to a regional/ethnic audience.
4. Electoral College -- Popular Votes
   There are several instances of curious events occurring with this process, including one in which the Electoral College vote completely overturned the popular vote. In 1888, the people elected Grover Cleveland for a second term. The Electoral College, though, elected Benjamin Harrison, and that was the end of that.
5. Popular Culture -- Series
   The story of popular culture in early modern Europe is one of mounting social stratification and a concerted effort at repression by the political and religious elite. An interesting example of this is found in a series of questionnaires on communal religious practices distributed by Spanish officials under Philip II (ruled 1552–1598) in the sixteenth century. Communities had long associated themselves with local patron saints, who served as symbols of both internal unity and external competition. Communities entered into sacred contractual agreements with their saints, promising to honor them with lavish shrines, feast days, and votive offerings in return for agrarian fertility, economic prosperity, and protection from internal factionalism or natural catastrophes. Many of the saints operated as specialists, and localities often received outside pilgrims seeking types of assistance particular to their patron saint; some saints cured specific illnesses, others ensured good harvests, and so on. Spanish authorities in turn considered the plethora of local feast days and specialized saints as an obstacle to their campaign of centralization. Gradually, particularistic interests were countered through crown sponsorship of multipurpose cults associated with the ruling dynasty, especially the cult of the Virgin and the Bleeding Heart.
6. Popular Baby Names -- List
   These are the most popular American baby boy and baby girl names used in the last 100 years. These baby names were in one of the top three spots for at least one year since 1900. It is likely that you know more than one person with every one of these names. If you want classic, this is your list.
7. Popular Music -- People
   Popular music is ... about popular culture - it shapes the way people dress, talk, wear their hair, and, some say, other behaviour such as violence and drug use. It expresses the here and now, how artists feel about what is happening in the world around them, and as such can be used as a cultural thermometer to test the temperature of the times: the protest songs of the 1960s, the punk explosion of the late 1970s, hip hop today. Popular music can be the direct expression of the zeitgeist, especially when it is written, played and sung by performers who have strong political feelings. It can be a force for the radicalisation and empowerment of youth.
8. Popular Baby Names -- Child
   Based on more than 4.2 million Social Security card applications for children born last year, mothers and fathers have picked Emily and Jacob as the most popular baby names for the eighth year in a row. Emily has been the most popular female name each year since 1996. Jacob has been the top male name since 1999. Sophia is new to the top ten for the first time and William returns after a one year absence. Elvis lives on at number 761.
9. Popular Culture -- Peoples
   Scholars now regularly access a wide and sometimes unexpected variety of sources in their search for manifestations of popular culture. The role of cultural interlocutors, responsible for the recording and transmission of customs and traditions, is central in most of these transmissions. Standard sources include civic chronicles and diaries depicting events both everyday and unusual, such as carnivals or the elaborate Corpus Christi processions popular in Catholic urban areas. Illustrated broadsheets—the newspapers of the illiterate—depicted occurrences both mundane (the effects of drunkenness on the humors) and wondrous (monstrous births, comets, Marian apparitions, etc.). Broadsheets were the subjects of public readings by literate members of the community, both in the privacy of the home and in taverns. The hub of the local communications network, the tavern was where people from every walk of life congregated to exchange news, conduct business, and, not infrequently, foment protest and revolt.
10. Gnutella -- Popular Gnutella
    Gnutella developers aren't waiting around for Qtraxmax to start behaving well. On Gnutella discussion sites, programmers are discussing a number of technical proposals that would make access to the network contingent on good behavior: If you write code that hurts Gnutella, in other words, you don't get to play. One idea would allow only "clients that you can authenticate" to speak on the network, Fisk says. This would include the five-or-so most popular Gnutella applications, including "Limewire, BearShare, Toadnode, Xolox, Gtk-Gnutella, and Gnucleus." If new clients want to join the group, they would need to abide by a certain communication specification.

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