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Memes and the Future of Pop Culture - Marcel Danesi

Memes and the Future of Pop Culture

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Buch | Softcover
88 Seiten
2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-39828-3 (ISBN)
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Pop culture may be on the verge of disappearing because of the advent of meme culture as a major platform for the delivery of trends in the arts.
Pop culture emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century as a reaction to the restrictive social traditions of colonial America. It spread quickly and broadly throughout the bustling urban centers of the 1920s—an era when it formed a partnership with technology and the business world. This coalition gave pop culture its identity, allowing it to thrive and form alliances with artistic and literary movements. But pop culture may have run its course with the rise of meme culture. This publication revisits the social, psychic, and aesthetic roots of pop culture, suggesting that meme culture has fragmented its historical flow, thus threatening to bring about its demise.

Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. (1974), FRSC (1998), University of Toronto, is Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology. He has published extensively in both fields, including most recently Understanding Media Semiotics (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Language and Mathematics (Mouton de Gruyter, 2016).

Memes and the Future of Pop Culture

 Marcel Danesi

 Abstract

 Keywords

 1 Introduction

 2 Origins

 3 The Protestant Ethic

 4 The Roaring Twenties

 5 Theorizing Pop Culture

 6 Technology and the Marketplace

 7 Literary-Artistic Bricolage

 8 Carnival, Archetype, and Mythology Theories Revisited

 9 Sociobiology and the Theory of Memes

 10 Meme Culture

 11 The Simulacrum

 12 Meme Culture versus Pop Culture

 13 The “Communal Brain”

 14 The Global Village

 15 The “Corso” and “Ricorso” of History

 16 The Tetrad

 17 The Future

 References

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 153 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 90-04-39828-7 / 9004398287
ISBN-13 978-90-04-39828-3 / 9789004398283
Zustand Neuware
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