Week 2: Audience Last Week You Discussed A Popular

Week 2: AudienceLast week you discussed a popular culture artifact and selected two artifacts for your Final Project in the Final Project Worksheet. This week you consider what it means for culture to be popular. How does popular culture become popular? How does it find its audience, or how does the audience find it? Does an audience change over time, or even disappear? If so, why?There are several popular culture artifacts that have been popular for a long time. For example, the Beatles’ music was incredibly popular when first released, but it also has stood the test of time, because many of their songs remain popular.Some popular culture artifacts fade in and out of popularity. Some examples might be flare leg jeans, trilby hats, or oversize glasses. Certain fashions become popular, then fade away and come back into fashion at a later date. Why is this? What does this say about society?This week you consider how popular culture finds an audience and whether an unexpected audience can turn an ordinary artifact into something popular.Learning ObjectivesStudents will:Analyze the relationship between popular culture and its audiencePhoto Credit: [Kali Nine LLC]/[E+]/Getty ImagesLearning ResourcesRequired ReadingsMenand, L. (2015, January 5). Pulp’s big moment: