首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
December 21 marked an epoch. Psy, the stage name of 34-year-old Park Jae-sang, became the first artist to get 1 billion views on
December 21 marked an epoch. Psy, the stage name of 34-year-old Park Jae-sang, became the first artist to get 1 billion views on
admin
2021-09-17
39
问题
December 21 marked an epoch. Psy, the stage name of 34-year-old Park Jae-sang, became the first artist to get 1 billion views on YouTube with Gangnam Style. But global blockbuster hits, in whatever genre, have come to seem a US niche market. It was Michael Jackson’s popularity in the 1980s that started this global style in pop culture. In contrast to, say, The Beaties, who had an unmistakably English style that became globally popular, Jackson’s music, an ingenious collection of disco rhythms and nonsense phrases, didn’t seem to come from any culture.
Why have Americans so dominated the globalised part of popular culture up till now? The US has little in the way of cultural infrastructure abroad, like Germany’s Goethe Institutes or the British Council. And that should not matter.
The US has benefited from intangible advantages. It uses the lingua franca, the cultural equivalent of printing a reserve currency. Their home audience may be the pivotal advantage US artists have. As the writer Todd Gitlin put it years ago: "By the time it leaves our shores, US popular culture has been ’ pretested’ in a heterogeneous public—a huge internal market with hybrid tastes and a tradition of juxtaposition and recombining disparate elements, melting them down into a Hollywood melange."
But you could as easily say "dumbing down" as "melting down" . Culturally speaking, the diverse US audience gives and it takes away. An American artist who wants to appeal to a variety of US cultural communities does so not by mastering the cultures of others but by stripping away those elements of his own that might require explanation. US society is indeed diverse, but for that very reason American popular culture is homogeneous.
Americans understand this poorly. What the US has is not a national genius but wealth, prestige and glamour. The world is always curious about how wealthy, prestigious and glamorous people dance, fight and fall in love. Obviously, the producers and venture capitalists who drive the entertainment industry will happily turn their focus towards any country that can produce blockbusters.
But the heart of the problem is elsewhere. Should the US reputation for mismanagement, profligacy and trillion-dollar government deficits continue to grow, non-US corporate executives would at some point ask why they are paying an architect to design a conference room like those in Manhattan. Culture follows wealth, prestige and glamour. As the US share of these declines, the world’s viewers may come to prefer Sleepless in Seoul to Sleepless in Seattle.
It’s implied in Paragraph 5 that Americans____.
选项
A、misjudge the intention of people abroad buying from them
B、exaggerate the role of creativity in their popular culture
C、overestimate the glamour of their popular culture
D、fail to meet the needs of the producers and venture capitalists
答案
A
解析
推断题。第五段指出美国人并不知道海外人士购买其产品(接受其文化)只是因为人们好奇有钱、有想象力、有魅力人士的文化生活而已,而美国目前的财富、影响力、魅力地位决定了全世界人们对其文化的关注。由此可见,美国人没能正确判断海外人士购买本土产品的意图。所以A项正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/pq1Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Youwillgraduatefromuniversityandarehuntingforajob.AfterreadingajobadfromTalentJournal,writealettertotheP
动物的权利问题——1997年英译汉及详解Doanimalshaverights?Thisishowthequestionisusuallyput.Itsoundslikeauseful,ground-clearing
动物的权利问题——1997年英译汉及详解Doanimalshaverights?Thisishowthequestionisusuallyput.Itsoundslikeauseful,ground-clearing
【F1】Themajorityofsuccessfulseniormanagersdonotcloselyfollowtheclassicalrationalmodeloffirstclarifyinggoals,ass
Clenchingyourfistcouldbeenoughtohelpyougetagriponyourmemory.【F1】Researchsuggeststhatballinguptherighthanda
ManysignspointtoagrowinghistoricalconsciousnessamongtheAmericanpeople.Itrustthatthisisso.Itisusefultoremem
Thetechnologicalrevolutionsofthelasttwodecadeshaveplacedasevereburdenontheconceptoftechnologytransfer.Itisq
AncientGreekphilosopherAristotleviewedlaughteras"abodilyexerciseprecioustohealth."But【C1】______someclaimstothec
Formostofhumanhistoryrichpeoplehadthemostleisure.Ontheotherhand,thepoorhavetypicallyworkedpersistently.Hans
Seariseasaresultofglobalwarmingwouldimmediatelythreatenthatlargefractionoftheglobelivingatsealevel.Nearlyo
随机试题
MCS-51系列单片机的一个机器周期包含时钟周期的个数是()
不能引起I型超敏反应的抗原是
血栓闭塞性脉管炎早期变化是
引进设备材料国内检验费费率一般为()。
某危险化学品罐区发生火灾事故。4座汽油罐和2座煤油罐被烧毁。根据《火灾分类》(GB/T4968),该起火灾为()。
从工程建设前期开始,包括建设期、使用期,直到工程报废拆除各阶段发生的成本都要进行控制,是指工程造价的()。
甲公司已进入稳定增长状态,固定股利增长率4%,股东必要报酬率10%。公司最近一期每股股利0.75元,预计下一年的股票价格是()元。
组织结构功能的大小,在很大程度上取决于()。
我们提倡干部在工作中走群众路线,你对干部走群众路线有什么看法?
某系统结构图如下图所示该系统结构图的深度是()。
最新回复
(
0
)