There are several competing definitions of popular culture. John Storey, in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, discusses six definitions. The quantitative definition of culture has the problem that a lot of “high culture” (fiction, for example, by Jane Austen) is widely favored. ”Pop Culture” will be used as a culture, if we decided that high culture is “left”. But many jobs on horseback or on the edges, like Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
A third definition is the pop culture with mass culture. This culture is seen as a commercial mass production for mass consumption. From the point of view of Western Europe, this can be compared to American culture. Alternatively, you can define the “pop culture” as a cultural “real”, but this can be problematic, as there are many ways to define the “people” are. Storey argues that there is a political dimension of popular culture, the neo-Gramscian hegemony “… sees popular culture as a place of struggle between the” resistance “of subordinate groups in society and the forces of” the “host ”the interests of the dominant groups in society. ”A postmodern approach to popular culture would” no longer recognize the distinction between high culture and popular. ”
Flat spots, popular culture from the urbanization of the industrial revolution, which identifies the term with the usual definition of “mass culture” comes from. Studies of Shakespeare (by Weimann, Barber or Bristol, for example) have found a large part of the vitality of its role in the drama of their participation in the revival of popular culture, while the contemporary professional as Dario For and John McGrath use popular culture in Gramsci’s sense that the old traditions (for example, the commedia dell’arte) belong.
Popular culture changes constantly and occurs only in space and time. Current waveforms and eddies, and represents a complex of mutually interdependent perspectives and values ​​that influence society and its institutions in different ways.For example, certain currents of pop culture (or diverge into) a subculture, what are the prospects, the traditional folk culture is only limited knowledge. The elements of popular culture in general, to appeal to a wide range of audiences.

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