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| subdivisions of the major categories of storytelling and music. |
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| live with the audience on-site. |
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| the transformation of a performance through media technology . |
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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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| music that reflected the lives of African slaves and reflected their experiences. |
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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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| an authentic form of American folk music that came from the lives of Appalachian and Southern whites. |
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| In the 1950s, a confluence of black and hillbilly traditions that became rock 'n' roll. |
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| the musical genre stemming from Memphis disc jockey and promoter 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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| 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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| 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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| the founder of Sports Illustrated. |
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| the ABC programming wizard that created the show Wide World of Sports. |
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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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| the sexually oriented Irish classic by James Joyce in 1930. |
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| An extremely offensive word or expression. |
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| Printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity. |
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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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| 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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| used vulgarities on the radio station WBAI in a comedy routine resulting in FCC action |
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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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| French film critic who devised the term auteur. |
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| denotes significant and original cinematic contribution. |
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| the product of demand for movies in effect turning movie making into a factory process. |
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| Canadian book publisher that produces romance novels with bodice-busting covers. |
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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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| artistic material requiring sophisticated and cultivated taste to appreciate. |
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| requires little sophistication to enjoy. |
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| view that the mass media do society a disservice by promoting low art. |
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| the German word meaning "trashy" used to describe low art. |
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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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| wrote the essay "Masscult and Midcult" in 1960 that all pop art is kitsch. |
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| Sociologist who characterized cultural work along socioeconomic and intellectual lines. |
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| an audience of elites with broad cultural knowledge. |
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| audience with some extent of cultural knowledge but less literary verbal group. |
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| audience with no concern for abstract idea and needs clearly express meaning of material. |
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| highly cultured or educated |
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| involving only a moderate degree of intellectual effort. |
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| not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes |
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| Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media. |
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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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