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Media Chapter 9
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10/26/2011

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genres
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subdivisions of the major categories of storytelling and music.
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authentic performance
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live with the audience on-site.
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mediated performance
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the transformation of a performance through media technology .
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mediated message
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communication that involves a process by which a message, or communication, is transmitted via some form or medium.
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black music
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music that reflected the lives of African slaves and reflected their experiences.
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rhythm and blues (R&B)
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a distinctive form of music in the 1930s and 1940s that brought black music into the mainstream.
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hillbilly music
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an authentic form of American folk music that came from the lives of Appalachian and Southern whites.
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Rockabilly
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In the 1950s, a confluence of black and hillbilly traditions that became rock 'n' roll.
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rock 'n' roll
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the musical genre stemming from Memphis disc jockey and promoter Sam Phillips.
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Sam Phillips
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The Memphis disc jockey and promoter who may be seen as the single progenitor of rock 'n' roll and recorded the song Rocket 88.
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rap
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from the impoverished Bronx section of New York, a new style of music with an intense bass for dancing, rhyming riffs, and often a strong rapid-fire attitude (Run DMC and King of Rock) albums).
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KDKA
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The first radio station to carry a play-by-play baseball game, the Davis Cup tennis matches and the blow-by-blow John Dundee versus Johnny Ray fight.
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Henry Luce
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the founder of Sports Illustrated.
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Roone Arledge
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the ABC programming wizard that created the show Wide World of Sports.
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loss leader
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the goal of using sports to promote other network programming, to enhance the network as a brand, and deny coverage to other networks. Also to generate advertising.
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Ulysses
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the sexually oriented Irish classic by James Joyce in 1930.
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obscenity
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An extremely offensive word or expression.
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pornography
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Printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity.
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Miller Standard
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result of the case Miller v. California that protects content from government bans unless it is defined as obscenity.
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Sam Ginsberg
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New York sandwich shop owner who sold girlie magazines to 16 year olds and was persecuted resulting in a law that no one could sell depictions of nudity to anyone under 17 years of age.
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George Carlin
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used vulgarities on the radio station WBAI in a comedy routine resulting in FCC action
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Pacifica case
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U.S. Supreme Court upheld FCC limits on indecency during times of day when children could be exposed. Resulted from the George Carlin comedy routine.
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Andre Bazin
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French film critic who devised the term auteur.
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Auteur
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denotes significant and original cinematic contribution.
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studio system
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the product of demand for movies in effect turning movie making into a factory process.
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Harlequin
Definition
Canadian book publisher that produces romance novels with bodice-busting covers.
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Pulp fiction
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Mass market novels printed cheaply and intended for a general audience. The content was usually melodramatic, titillating, or thrilling.
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high art
Definition
artistic material requiring sophisticated and cultivated taste to appreciate.
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low art
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requires little sophistication to enjoy.
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elitist
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view that the mass media do society a disservice by promoting low art.
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kitsch
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the German word meaning "trashy" used to describe low art.
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Populist
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view that there is nothing wrong with mass media catering to mass tastes in a democratic society.
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Dwight Macdonald
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wrote the essay "Masscult and Midcult" in 1960 that all pop art is kitsch.
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Herbert Gans
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Sociologist who characterized cultural work along socioeconomic and intellectual lines.
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high culture audience
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an audience of elites with broad cultural knowledge.
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middle culture audience
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audience with some extent of cultural knowledge but less literary verbal group.
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Low culture audience
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audience with no concern for abstract idea and needs clearly express meaning of material.
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highbrow
Definition
highly cultured or educated
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middlebrow
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involving only a moderate degree of intellectual effort.
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lowbrow
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not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes
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Pop art
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Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media.
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Susan Sontag
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wrote "On Culture and the New Sensibility" which prompts elitists to take a fresh look at pop art.
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