This semester I take class HO1 – Honors Colloquium. I believe that it is very interesting and useful class. In first two weeks we discussed popular culture like a subject.  I want to admit that I had never seen a big difference between elite and popular culture.  I saw only a difference between good culture and bad culture. But now I have changed my opinion.  I saw a great film “Great Thinkers: Culture Wars” Today I read an article “The Rise of Popular Culture: A Historiographical Sketch” by LeRoy Ashby.
LeRoy Ashby writes in her interesting article: “During the 1960s and especially the 1970s a number of excellent histories of entertainment emerged.”  I read in the article that the writings of British historians such as E.P. Thompson were also influential. I like Susan Smulyan citation:” Many of us were television kids, born into an age of rock and roll, and our outlooks on popular culture were formed indelibly by the fact that we liked mass-mediated for most entertainment.” Rüssel Nye published in 1970 sweeping study materials “The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America”. This is an impressive examination of entertainments since colonial times. Nye wrote:” Popular art confirms the experience of the majority”.
I read this article with my pleasures and agree with all essays of famous scholars.