Penser la musique, Écouter les images. Lectures de Cahiers d’art, Jazz et Documents sur le jazz et le cinéma américains by Diane Turquety

“…From 1926 to 1931, Cahiers d’art, Jazz and Documents, magazines on art or culture more generally, covered American jazz and cinema in a new way. Marked by popular culture, the United States and the “exotic” touch embodied by the American black community, these entertainments were elevated to the rank of new forms of artistic expression, vectors of an ideal modernity. …”
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Colour reception(s): The Narrative of the Exhibition “Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design” (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21 September 2023-18 February 2024) by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…Although the Victorian era is often depicted in sombre tones in popular culture, the age of industry in fact brought about a series of scientific and technical innovations in the fields of colour perception and production. …”
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Intérpretes e notáveis da literatura e da cultura popular do Maranhão by Igor Gastal Grill, Eliana Tavares dos Reis

“…We analyzed Academic Profiles and Popular Culture Profiles taking into consideration: (i) the social and political position of the agents (biographers and biographiers), defined by the resources on which their “reputation” and their inscriptions are based on cultural and political struggles; (ii) the structuring strategies of the works, observing the selection and hierarchization of the cases, available space, assigned classifications, among others; (iii) and the contents, adjectives, definitions, finally, the representations explained in the pre-texts and laudatory texts. …”
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Représenter le crime : permanences et inflexions (France, xixe siècle) by Dominique Kalifa

“…Crime and delinquency have always been one of the major themes of popular culture and representations which fashion social imagination. …”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…The similarity of these works points to the interest of these researchers on popular culture - in particular that related to the spontaneous understanding of the luso-brazilian people about the evils of body and soul, and its stigmatizing and metaphorical interpretations of illness as a social evil. …”
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‘Grim Realities’ or ‘Light of Fancy’? Charles Dickens in the Bulgarian Classroom by Zelma Catalan

“…A greater attention to Dickens’s relation to popular culture will allow students from non-Anglophone countries to tap into the richness and variety of his art.…”
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Orientalism and the British Picture Postcard Industry: Popularizing the Empire in Victorian and Edwardian Homes by Gilles Teulié

“…It is against this context that the article will consider how ‘high culture’ and ‘popular culture’ (and particularly postcards) permeated Victorian and Edwardian society, and through the transformative power of the Arts, contributed eminently to the consolidation of the imperial project.…”
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Cabaret as new journalism by Coenie de Villiers

“…(This paper was read at a one-day seminar entitled Communications In teractions In Popular Culture at the Rand Afrikaans University on Au gust 14, 1992.) …”
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Norway Reimagined by Ratilainen Saara

“…Employing multimodal discourse analysis to the social media platform VKontakte, I examine how Russophone audiences of global television imagine the country of origin of their object of fandom, and how spatial imaginations embedded in this process contribute to popular geopolitics of Norden – that is, to geopolitical reasoning of narratives and representations of Nordic countries available through popular culture. My analysis shows how Norway and its positioning in the world provides an important symbolic resource for further discussions on identity and belonging. …”
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National Team of Greece: Gender, Sports, and the Recession by Georgia Aitaki

“…Building on scholarly approaches to the ideological role of popular culture in turbulent times, this article examines the infiltration of recession themes in the content of television fiction, while centralizing a gendered reading of the narrative of the case at hand. …”
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Mansplaining explained: The role of the better-than-average effect and the interpretation bias in acts and accusations of mansplaining by Fokkema Astrid, Pollmann Monique

“…Mansplaining, the phenomenon of men degradingly explaining something to women, is widely recognized in popular culture but has received little scholarly attention so far. …”
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Les tourismes, matrices méconnues des relations franco-espagnoles de la dictature à l’intégration européenne, 1959-1979 by Pablo Martin-Pañeda 

“…Confronting the reading of tourism by decision-makers with documents that echo a more popular culture also questions the sometimes tenuous dividing line between tourism and political fact.…”
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The Westward Spread of Eastern Learning: Jung’s Integration and Adaptation of Religious Daoism by Ming Chen

“…It will be argued that Jungian ideas such as active imagination, individuation, and synchronicity were directly influenced or inspired by Jung’s exposure to religious Daoism through Richard Wilhelm, Daoist texts, and his own adoption of Daoist Internal Alchemy techniques, an influence which would reverberate through both Western and Chinese popular culture.…”
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Going Through the Motions: American Bodies in Pharrell Williams’s “24 Hours of Happy” by Claude Chastagner

“…What can we infer from the emphasis put on happiness in this video, and more broadly in US popular culture and public policies?…”
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Youth as actors and mediators in Tuareg theater and social life (Urban Niger and Mali) by Susan Rasmussen

“…The goal is to contribute to anthropological studies of how youth and age more generally are socially constructed, as revealed through popular culture.…”
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L’historien et le jeu-vidéo by Julien Lalu

“…Offer a historical step of analysis of the object-game to grab in what the historian can use this medium to understand stakes of the representations of past in popular culture. And take a example of Versailles 1685 : complot à la cour du roi soleil to include how the play, cultural and pedagogic aspects can co-exist in a game without denaturing it.…”
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Traiettorie del filologicamente corretto. Il campo del folklore nell’operato di un maestro contemporaneo delle danze sarde by Alessandro Deiana

“…The notion of folklore field will then be illustrated as giving meaning and reason to the processes of authentication and to the practice of philologically correct in a context of reflexive popular culture. The ethnographic focus will be based on the particular trajectory of the philologically correct in the context of the practice of so called traditional Sardinian dances, with particular regard to the work of a Sardinian Campidanese dance master, who will be considered as a popular philologist moving in a multifaceted and polemic scene which includes folk troups, dance enthusiasts and dancers “in the field”.…”
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Victim or Villain? A Study of Deconstruction in Tiara Andini’s ‘Maafkan Aku’ by Meria Zakiyah Alfisuma, Eka Susylowati, M. Masqotul Imam Romadlani

“…This study offers a nuanced exploration of how deconstruction unveils alternative interpretations, contributing to a broader understanding of how popular culture uses language to express complex emotional and relational dynamics.…”
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The specifics of mass culture in the era of digitalization by L. V. Filindash

“…The author asserts the idea of the entry of samples and the use of the value fund of the elite level into popular culture. Immersive technologies provide the process of including a wide range of consumers in an alternative, virtual art environment. …”
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‘ In Comes the New Black’: The Ghetto-Rural Black versus Blacksurbian Identities by Nkululeko Motha

“…This has created a hierarchy amongst Black people which has not been mitigated because of popular culture and how it influences the consciousness of Black people on race matters. …”
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