Popular Culture
In the Seinfeld episode "The Cafe", Jerry pulls his turtleneck over his mouth while he is staking out a café owner across the street from his window. Jerry jokingly says "Bazooka Joe" to Elaine as a reference to the character Mort from the Bazooka Joe strip. In the 30 Rock episode "Murphy Brown Lied to Us", Jack refers to Bazooka Joe repeatedly as a form of self-torture for Americans, and uses this as an excuse to market painful furniture.
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“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)