Elmo In Popular Culture

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Who is that little red baby monster that all those toddlers are always talking about? Its Elmo. Elmo is a Muppet character who is a baby monster on the popularized television shown Sesame Street. Is basic appearance is that he is a red monster and is three and a half years old. He was originally intended for a background puppet in the hit television show, but when a timely puppeteer, Kevin Clash, brought a personality and charisma to him that could not be ignored, the writers of the show felt inspired and compelled to develop this little red monster into the hit sensation he has become today. This process was not an overnight sensation for Elmo and instead was a long process of development and changes. Elmo first appeared in Sesame in season 12, but as puppeteer Clash claims it was not until the 17th season that he “found his voice” as Elmo. In today’s version of Sesame Street, which is now owned and operated by HBO, Elmo is a main character of the show and …show more content…

To say that this character is being watched passively would be most definitely arcuate. Elmo is most definitely a popular culture icon. CHAPTER 2: THE CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION TRADITION Matthew Arnold is said to be the beginning of popular culture in the modern age, as said by Storey. “Arnold significance is that he inaugurates a tradition, a particular way of seeing culture, a particular way of placing popular culture within the general field of culture.” This perspective is called the Arnoldian perspective (Storey, 2014, pg 18). The Arnoldian way of thinking in retro spec to popular culture is the popular culture is “the endeavor to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind” (Storey, 2014, pg. 18). For Arnold and Storey’s interpretation of his writings is that popular culture represents the best of the best for our values of society and what should be striven

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