In Popular Culture
Santa Lucia has been like subject of some traditional Neapolitan songs, among which is the most famous, Santa Lucia (Today, among other things, that song is considered somewhat the unofficial hymn of Sweden!), and Santa Lucia Luntana, a musical symbol of Neapolitans leaving home to emigrate to America.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“If they have a popular thought they have to go into a darkened room and lie down until it passes.”
—Kelvin MacKenzie (b. 1946)
“Why is it so difficult to see the lesbian—even when she is there, quite plainly, in front of us? In part because she has been “ghosted”Mor made to seem invisible—by culture itself.... Once the lesbian has been defined as ghostly—the better to drain her of any sensual or moral authority—she can then be exorcised.”
—Terry Castle, U.S. lesbian author. The Apparitional Lesbian, ch. 1 (1993)