scholarly journals ‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Van den Bulck ◽  
Anders Olof Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Parasocial Relationships ◽  
Community Types

This article analyses Twitter responses to the death of musician David Bowie as an inroad to a discussion about characteristics and functions of Twitter in the mediated relationships between celebrities, fans and the popular culture industry. The study focuses on questions regarding the nature of the Twitter community, types of emotions as well as expressions of fan creativity and the composition of online mourners. To this end, it provides a broad analysis of all tweets with #Bowie in the first 48 h after Bowie passed away ( N = 252,318) and in-depth, quantitative and qualitative analysis of tweets with 100+ retweets ( N = 130). Results show high levels of retweeting and a limited number of tweets retweeted exceptionally often, suggesting a Twitter ‘elite’ leading the online mourning. This elite consists predominantly of media figures, celebrities, artists and music industry representatives rather than ‘regular’ individuals and fans, resulting in limited expressions of parasocial relationships. Besides being conduits of expressions of grief and information exchange, tweets focus on positive affirmation in tribute to Bowie’s work. Results confirm that Twitter provides a virtual gathering of mourners who are (presumably) looking for recognition of loss and for expressions of support.

Sa’Unine String Orchestra, Orkes Geseknya Indonesia

Panggung ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranti - Rachmawanti
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
String Orchestra ◽  
Characteristic Func ◽  
Orchestra Music ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Func Tion

ABSTRACT This article explains the result of Sa’Unine String Orchestra as one of Indonesian orchestras in popular culture. Main idea of this research is to uncover and describe the characteristic, func- tion, and role of Sa’Unine String Orchestra within the popular culture in Indonesia. This research used qualitative method with ethnographical approaches to identify all facts that discovered during research. The conclusions of this research show that Sa’Unine String Orchestra moves in two ways, there are; the idealism which had a vision to create a real Indonesian string orchestra and a part of music industry. At the end, these two ways are connected to each other because of the earnings of those. Music industry becomes a support factor which create the idealism of Sa’Unine String Or- chestra to be an Indonesian String Orchestra. Keywords: String Orchestra, Music, Popular Culture. 

Translating Local Issues in Global Formats: The Case of Memes

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Michela Canepari
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Visual Perspective ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Local Varieties ◽  
Global Models ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Selection Of

The present article aims to study the phenomenon of memes, in the attempt to identify the level of globalization vis à vis localization these communicative, social and cultural products voice. This article therefore presents a small selection of memes from both the United Kingdom and Italy, and briefly analyses them from a linguistic and visual perspective. For reasons of space, the quantitative analysis of the corpus will not be discussed at length here. However, the qualitative analysis of the memes selected for this study will prove that the majority of the existing material, while adapting to global formats and visuals, often exploits regional and local varieties of language. Thus, since language is the expression of specific cultures, the analysis demonstrates how, despite globalization, local (and localized) features of the communities that create memes survive in their uniqueness. Hence, since memes are privileged forms of communication among younger members of society, the results point to a generation of youth that, despite the tendency to follow global models, is well aware of the traditional and local cultures they stem from and strive to keep them alive. On the basis of this analysis, the article finally argues that memes – like many other products of popular culture – represent a privileged arena which, if studied systematically through the tools of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, can reveal important aspects of the societies that produce them and their evolution. 

scholarly journals THE CREATIVE CINEMATOGRAPHIC PROCESS AT THE SERVICE OF NATIONAL IDENTITY: PEDRO ALMODÓVAR AND THE PROMOTION OF SPANISH STEREOTYPES

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-386
Author(s):  
Marta Saavedra Llamas ◽  
Nicolás Grijalba de la Calle
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Pedro Almodovar ◽  
International Standard ◽  
Main Thesis

Cultural expression and creativity contribute to shape national identity; movie experience reflects society. The way in which Pedro Almodóvar’s films facilitates a greater understanding of Spanish culture is the main thesis in this research. This study follows a double methodology: a descriptive documentary phase and an analysis of the filmmaker’s work. The latter includes two substages: a qualitative analysis based on a pattern dealing with different variables related to stereotype perception of Spain abroad; and a quantitative one, which highlights further procedures to approach the national culture. The insight provided by this research proves that Almodóvar actually spreads Spanish identity through his creative universe and empowers its stereotypes, yet by making them more modern: he points out the role of family, but he goes against the traditional model; he turns Madrid, Spain symbolic sight in the international standard about Spanish identity, into the kernel of his work; and he introduces some elements of Spanish popular culture like folklore, gastronomy, bullfighting or rural Spain.

scholarly journals Debates sobre o tecnobrega e indústria cultural em tempos de pós-fordismo * Debates on tecnobrega: culture industry in times of post-fordism

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 78 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAQUEL SANT'ANA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Brazilian Music ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
The Press ◽  
Restructuring Process

<p><strong>Resumo:</strong> As últimas décadas do século XX foram marcadas por uma profunda reestruturação produtiva que afetou também a chamada “indústria cultural”. No campo da música, a alegação de que haveria uma crise causada pela circulação de cópias ilegais marcou a reorganização do setor. Neste artigo, analiso o debate em torno do tecnobrega, circuito de música popular que foi transformado em modelo para a indústria fonográfica nacional. Essa construção discursiva contou com participação de imprensa, programas televisivos e análises acadêmicas, que construíram, aos poucos, uma imagem de que o gênero seria a superação da dicotomia centro versus periferia. Esse caso permite pensar algumas das novas configurações da indústria cultural no mundo pós-fordista.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Tecnobrega – Indústria Fonográfica – Circuitos Musicais.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The last decades of the Twentieth Century were marked by a profound restructuring process that has also affected the so-called "culture industry". In the music field , the claim that there would be a crisis caused by the circulation of illegal copies marked the sector reorganization. This article analyses the debate on the tecnobrega circuit of popular music which has been transformed into a model for the Brazilian music industry. This discursive construction had debates in the press, television shows and academic analysis, which gradually built an image that such genre would be the breakthrough of the center versus periphery dichotomy. This case allows us to consider some of the new settings of the culture industry in the post-Fordist world.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Tecnobrega – Phonographic Industry – Music Circuits.</p>

Western Culture in Korean Wave

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariha Azalea ◽  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Korean Wave ◽  
Original Culture

Korean Wave is a product of the culture industry comes from South Korea. The emergence of popular culture is also one of the effects of the occurrence of the phenomenon of globalization in a culture consumed globally and at domination by the Western culture. This research seeks to elaborate the elements of American culture are assumed to be found in the products of the Korean wave. This analysis method using semiotics Roland Barthes to know the visual signs that lead to the western cultural context in the music video of 2NE1 which is idol girlband Korea. The focus in this study is the costumes, hairstyles, and setting the symbols shown 2NE1 personnel in the music video. The results showed that Western cultural elements that exist in the music video is more dominate than any element of the culture of Korea. The concept of the music video, how to dress, settings and appearance of existing personnel in the music video appearance more like Westerners. 2NE1 music video in personnel described as a strong, courageous woman but still accentuates the side of beauty. The appearance of the displayed setting personnel and fickle and leads to the western cultural elements. Western cultural elements have dominated and diimitasi as well as produced back in the form of a Korean Wave her through one of the music video for 2NE1. The presence of Korean Wave popular culture as a redirect on the cultural industries that showcase not only the work, but the visual aspects and meanings that play an important role in the Korean Wave. The use of elements of western in the Korean wave is done in order to be accepted by the international community. Overall music video 2NE1 adopt and represent the elements of western in his meaning shows that 2NE1 is a representation of the culture of western that getting away from the original culture of South Korea.

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