'Popular culture did more harm that good'Use all the sources and your own nowledge toexplain whether you agree with this view.

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Wednesday 1st December 2004

Dale Lingard 11T

'Popular culture did more harm that good'

Use all the sources and your own nowledge to

explain whether you agree with this view.

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.

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     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 ...

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