Definitions

The mixing and sampling of different kinds and levels – of hip hop music, of material in television ads, films, etc. Hybrid forms are said to level hierarchies of taste. It is said that all distinctions between high culture and popular culture, have gone, or become blurred.

Hybridity is when two things mix, in this case when two music genres combine together, for example ‘Indiepop’. Theese combined genres will have elements of both genres in their pieces and may not always conform to the codes and conventions.

Example 1: Kate Nash - Foundations

This is used to refer to the process of

adaptation or improvisation where aspects

of one style are given quite different

meanings when compared with stylistic

features from another. Youth subcultural

groups such as punks. A more recent

feminized example would be the

combination of Doc Martens and summer

dresses worn by girls.

The term Intertextuality refers to the process of creating references to any kind of media text via another media text. In other words Intertextuality essentially means for a type of media (film,television,music etc) to pay homage to another media text. Intertextuality is a ‘parody’ or ‘pastiche’

Example 1:Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop Parody Example 2: Katy Perry - California Girls Parody

They shared the idea that the truth should be ‘deconstructed’ so that we can challenge the dominant ideas that people claim as truth, which Lyotarddescribes as ‘grand narratives’

Jean Baudrillard says: ‘The Disneyland imaginary is neither true nor false; it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real’ This was his idea of ‘hyper reality’

Example 1: Disneyland Example 2: TV and film in general, especially reality

TV, due to its creation of a world fantasy and its dependence that the viewer will engage with these fantasy worlds.