21. The book describes how popular culture has coarsened in recent decades. 22. European intellectuals have long debated the consequences of the hegemony of American popular culture around the world.. 23. He harangued us for hours about the evils of popular culture. 24. He delivered a long harangue about the evils of popular culture. 25. Humble beginnings became increasingly obscure within the unfolding of popular culture. 26. Pastiche and lack of originality in popular culture is therefore seen as the result. 27. In the following chapter we will examine several aspects of their lives and attitudes, some of which are often loosely grouped by historians as popular culture. 28. At least it is a reminder that eighteenth-century England was a society in whose popular culture literate and oral means of creating and transmitting ideas coexisted. 29. What both opposed was a vital popular culture, which had in the eighteenth century entered on a vigorous phase. 30. It was the comparative freedom of the common people which invigorated this popular culture. |