#popular culture

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night. ↗

— James Wolcott

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And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture. ↗

— Kurt Loder

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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

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Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. ↗

— Morley Safer

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