The Effects of Popular Culture on Society

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The Effects of Popular Culture on Society

Popular Culture is music, dance, theatre, film,T.V., poetry and Art

which is enjoyed by a wide group of people. Some people would argue

that popular culture in the 1960's cause harm. Other people however

argued that other factors brought harm and change to society.

Some people would argue that music would cause harm because of the

lyrics in pop songs. Lyrics like 'Lets spend the night together' by

The Rolling Stones, influenced young people to have casual sex. Also

'Lucy in the sky with Diamonds' by the Beatlesinfluenced young people

to take drugs. Some people would argue that popular culture caused

harm to society through music lyrics.

Popular culture was seen to be harming society because young people

idolized the members of pop groups. An example would Janis Joplin.

Some people were shocked to learn 'she died of a drugs overdose in

1970' (source G). They beleived society would be harmed as more and

more young people copied her. Some sections of society were concerned

by the reactions of the fans to popular music groups. Fans were seen

to be 'a heaving maniacal screaming mob'(source B) which might have

been very frightening to some sections of society. Older members of

society could see the reaction of fans as damaging to society because

large numbers of young people were out of control.

Some people would argue that T.V. shows caused harm because of the

type of proggrams that were being shown. Proggrames such as 'that was

the week that was.' Which some people thought were very anti

authoritan and thought they were harming society violently. An

example for this is Mary Whitehouse 'No christian programmes were

making it on T.V.' This shows that some people would argue that T.V.

shows caused harm to society.

Some people would argue that the Theatres Act caused harm in society.

This is because, when they passed the Act in 1968 nudity was shown in

public theatres and caused harm to society because young people could

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