"Popular Culture In The Twenty-First Century"

  This article by Billy Ivey and Steven J. Tepper starts out explaining how much popular culture has changed throughout different centuries. Within this article they relate and compare popular cultural from other centuries to this century such as the new devices such as iPod and TiVo. They also talk about how technology is starting to become to much of peoples lives. For example non-professional musicians are able to to create their own music without being trained. Which is good because it gives everyone a chance to fulfill there dreams rather then just the famous artist.

 This article really makes you think about the twenty-first century and how popular culture is really becoming a big factor more and more. Reading this article made me realize that the more technology we have the more it starts to  separate families from spending valuable family time together. In stead of sitting around the dinner table listening to each other tell stories we now turn on the TV and watch people tell stories about themselves. Although throughout the years popular cultural has helped many try to make their dreams come true. Such as many music artist who put their music on myspace and youtube to get their music out there for people to listen to. 

I also thought the one paragraph was very interesting when it talked about in past centuries people when people listen to music it was live not on a CD that can be replayed over and over again. Now in today's century we are able to not only buy the CD and listen to that same song but we are able to download the music and even burn our own CD. Ivey and Tepper ended with a good sentence saying that we have to find a way to thicken our cultural life for all Americans. That is so true..