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By: Michelle Kasprzak · I was talking to this very nice person at a very fashionable opening in London who said she used to read my blog and really enjoyed the witty commentary on contemporary culture.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:01:12 +0000

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By: MK

MK — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:58:41 +0000

Conceptual artist Dan Graham: “All my intellectual ideas come from popular culture,” he said, at one point protesting: “I’m not deconstructing it. I’m celebrating it.”

By: sandy

sandy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:44:05 +0000

As with any list, the first thing I do it work out why I can’t be pigeonholed!

You know how people often say the ‘like a bit of everything’. I always describe myself as liking everything apart from the things the people who like a bit of everything like. I guess I still do think that, though it’s not something I am proud of anymore, its basically silly snobbishness… what can I say, I was born like this, I had no choice.

But the thing I like about rummaging around in the nooks and crannies, in the forgoten backwaters, is that it does give a great insight into the value of things, it highlights and evaluates – I guess in a way that the Alanis cover does too, it reveals much more than Alanis’s more typical work and indeed on the song it covers.

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Lead Into Gold — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:46:17 +0000

[...] Lead Into Gold “…the majority of popular culture is worthless, anti-democratic, scelerotic garbage”, according to Stephen Moss, writing recently on the Guardian’s blogs. Mr Moss’ article is in part a reaction to a new report from Oxford sociologists that has determined that the cultural elite does not exist. The report suggests that there are actually four groups of cultural consumers, which Moss summarises as: “univores, who like popular culture; omnivores, who like everything from Posh Spice to Puccini; pau [...]

By: Britblog roundup #151 « Amused Cynicism

Britblog roundup #151 « Amused Cynicism — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:42:44 +0000

[...] on to culture, Michelle Kazprzak talks about pop culture versus high art. She concludes that while much of it is garbage, “the best and the worst of it can be fodder [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:18:25 +0000

And of course, the better, later versions, are remixes of the remix. Welcome to the Age of the Mash-up.

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Lead Into Gold — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:06:04 +0000

[...] Lead Into Gold As the CBC’s “Best of 2007” list editors put it, Alanis Morissette’s parody of the song “My Humps” by Black Eyed Peas “…almost justifies its existence”. Alanis, herself a pop princess (albeit with a more “serious” persona) takes lyrical … [...]

By: Oliver Luker

Oliver Luker — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:58:25 +0000

Michelle,

I was fascinated to read your post and include it as part of an ongoing debate over at dispatx.com.

Best, Oliver

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Bookmarks Tagged Faithful — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:52:26 +0000

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