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The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the context of use. It is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time ...

"Popular culture includes a wide range of activities that a large number of people in a society engage in. Since World War II, Australia has developed strong industries in four key areas of popular culture: music, film, television and sport ... "
(Authors: Geraldine Carrodus, Tim Delany, Kate McArthur, Richard Smith, Tony Taylor and Carmel Young Book Title: Oxford Big Ideas History Australian Curriculum - Year 10 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford University Press City: Melbourne

"Nowhere is the increasing popularity of street art more apparent than in Australia's regional cities and towns. What started out as a subculture among disenfranchised youth in urban areas, has now evolved into a street art movement that it is one of the most recognised in the world ... "

"We'll take a look at the highs and lows of pop culture in 2018 with Professor Robert Thompson of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University ... "

"What's changed in Hollywood, television, music and the arts? We cover the top pop culture of 2017 with Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson ... "

"Barack Obama pleaded with a crowd of teenagers on Tuesday night to defy stereotypes about what it means to be a man of color. "We live in a culture where our worth is measured by how much money we have and how famous we are," the former president lamented in Oakland, California ... "

"A museum commemorating Nicole Richie’s 2007 barbecue and an oral history of 00s rock usher in the euphoric recall of the noughties ... "

You've lived through 1990s nostalgia, but are you ready for 2000s nostalgia? No? Too bad, because it's coming. The longing for the era of Osama bin Laden is getting stronger. "It was the decade I grew up and became a teenager in, so I have very strong memories of [the] fashion, movies, music," says journalist Valerie Loftus, who recently wrote articles for Ireland's the Daily Edge online newspaper about one-hit wonders of the "noughties," and one on a possible Mean Girls reunion.

"The rise of social media. The fall of the stock market. September 11. The election of Barack Obama. The 2000s were ten tumultuous years that changed the world forever ... "

"NOSTALGIA seems to be getting more and more impatient. Take television, for example. Hey! Hey! It's Saturday, Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place have been revived recently, only a decade after their cancellations, for a "new generation" ... "

"Why would you want to purchase a book with a ragged dust jacket and stained pages? More to the point, why would a publisher release a book in which those defects were not the result of use but built into the product? If you don't know the answer to those questions, you are unlikely to be an adherent of the current craze for pop culture produced in the 1980s ... "

"Beginning with two Australian newspapers inherited from his father, Murdoch built a global media empire and transformed both the content and the distribution of news and entertainment around the world. The far-reaching influence of his company, News Corporation, on popular culture, media, and business has garnered both fierce condemnation as well as accolades ... "

"Of all the American pop-cultural products that are being consumed around the world, ranging from Hollywood filsm and Coca-Cola to television soap operas and hip hop, the 1985 pop song "We Are the World" by USA for Africa is one of the most blatant examples of America's dominance in global pop culture ... "

"Movies define countries for the world. Pedro Almodóvar shapes how we think of Spain. England will forever be “Monty Python” and “Lawrence of Arabia” for many of us, while the American extremes — optimism, violence, humor and despair — are all visible via Hollywood. So what does “Crocodile Dundee” say about Australia? ... "

"Janet and Derek Binns have no problem living in the shadow of the great Frank. They've done so since moving into Sinatra Way, Cranbourne, four years ago, and quite like it - though Janet says she is more of a Presley fan herself ... "

" ... a generation of 1970s latchkey kids coming home from school found solace in a syndicated show where parents dropped everything to solve their kids' most minute problems, like finding a missing doll ... "

"Mary Tyler Moore, who died Wednesday at 80, broke ground in the 1970s on her sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Her character, Mary Richards, was a single, television news producer at a time when women were mainly depicted as housewives. She was also endearing and funny ... "

"Pop culture is that loose blend of books, music, fashion and other daily ephemera that contributes to the identity of a society at a particular point in time ... "

"An astronaut, a little hop, and a witty quote: Neil Armstrong's first lunar footsteps are ingrained in the minds of all humankind. But that first Moon landing might not have been such a historic cultural moment if it weren't for NASA's savvy public relations team ... "

"Growing up in the white-bread America of the Fifties, we had never heard anything like it, but we reacted, or remember reacting, instantaneously and were converted. We were believers before we knew what it was that had so spectacularly ripped the dull, familiar fabric of our lives. We asked our friends, maybe an older brother or sister. We found out that they called it rock & roll. It was so much more vital and alive than any music we had ever heard before that it needed a new category: Rock & roll was much more than new music for us. It was an obsession, and a way of life ... "