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8 THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2004 Intricate Pinback floors audience BY ROBBIE MACKEY STAFF WRITER How it happens: Pinback takes the stage quietly. The band sets up and begins playing. After song one, the virgin-view er’s internal monologue goes some thing like this: “Wait, you mean, all that stuff I thought was guitar on their records was actually bass? Weird.” Then, as song two comes to a close: “This one, too? How the hell? This isn’t nearly as straight forward as I thought it was when I heard Blue Screen Life” Song number three begins, and POP CULTURE FROM PAGE 5 popular culture at Bowling Green State University. “It reflects what people are interested in. You could learn a lot about American history by knowing what people were "" Lllllllllil Take 15/501 South towards Pittsboro Exit Main St./Southern Village THE GHH. 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The jaw loss is easy to explain, though, as Smith and Crow’s music watching.” Ray Browne, a retired professor at BGSU and the acknowledged godfather of pop culture studies, said that people have begun to understand societies of the past through their popular cultures. “Tkke the ancient Egyptians,” he said. “We’ve run through the gold masks and treasures, and we’re now looking into the lives of who built the Pyramids.” Credited with coining the term “pop culture” in the late 19605, Browne is a pioneer in furthering education about topic he estab lished the Department of Popular Culture at BGSU in 1973. More than 30 years later, it remains the only such department in the coun try. But the trend of incorporating popular culture into academic courses has arrived at UNC. Lawrence Rosenfeld, professor of communication studies, teaches a class using “Bufly the Vampire ETERNAL SUNSHINE 7:15, SAT-SUN 2:30, 4:40 7:00. 9:40, SAT-SUN I:4S, 4:20 THE LADYKILLERS 7:10, 9:25, SAT-SUN 2:10. 4:40 GOODBYE LENIN 7:00, 9:30. SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:30 Diversions CONCERT mm PINBACK CAT'S CRADLE SUNDAY, APRIL 11 ***** is so deceptively uncomplicated on their newest record that the visual ly apparent intricacies of Pinback’s live performance are absolutely bewildering. And Sunday night at Cat’s Cradle, after the gaunt dream rock of The Eaves and the static pop of American Analog Set, jaws started to plummet. Bashfully, in his vintage Public Slayer” to study interpersonal rela tionships. “It’s more realistic in its depic tion of relationships than most shows on television,” he said. But using movies and television programs as a way to gauge socie ty is one thing: Both mediums are still reasonably young and have understandable value in observing and critiquing society. Literature is another beast altogether, and appeasing the literary community often requires an effort of mam moth proportions. “The literary world, like all our social worlds, is stratified,” said UNC English Professor Robert Cantwell. “Consequently, certain kinds of works are assigned to a certain strata by the literary authorities.” But what now is considered “popular” can become “literary” during the course of time. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic romances, for example, achieved' their status as literary master pieces long after their publication. “Contemporary writing is embedded in a literary legacy,” Cantwell said. “We seize upon the works that will have the most'last ing impact.” Festival! * april 15 • 7pm ni o n auditorium comedy, adventure the following UNC students: chris baker* logon davis*pablo dura naff sam hargrave * Stephanie liotta * jennifer lloyd*angela i| sean overbeeke • pete nataya a. simmons * robert joel wiggins afterwards, catch the premiere qfa| UNC senior sam hargrave's "How W V Hi All of My fS| Can you Spot the Intensity l Dentyne Intense Spotters will be on a around your campus from April 18-May t. 2004 looking to spot you with a pack of Dentyne Fire or Dentyne Ice . All you have to do is be spotted with your pack of Dentyne Fire or Dentyne Ice and you could win one of many great prizes, including a MP3 Player! jlSentyne Gel of Dentyne Fire or Dentyne Ice * liohi your local store and Sjftt the Intensity! Enemy T-shirt, Crow set free the opening sample of “Boo,” pinched from 2001’s Blue Screen Life, as Smith entered in turn with his slap-chording and finger-finagling bass work. The duo, along with a rotating cast of accompaniers, offered up a hefty set of dense pop songs, deli cately obscured by their layered vocal interchanges and distinctive bass-driven sound. Whether the soft cotton swab bing of “Loro” or the sly propulsion of “Offline P.K.,” each of Pinback’s small-scale rock numbers was dutifully held together by eccen tricity and experimentalism. Professors are turning toward using contemporary novels to reach their students, an apt strat egy for a generation whose culture has become fragmented, a gener ation that receives most of its news from the Internet and programs such as “The Daily Show.” “(Pop culture) is held in (disre gard) by those who misinterpret literature as something high sounding,” Browne said. “They’ve always used Shakespeare as the fulcrum where culture bent, but to look at Shakespeare as having never been a part of pop culture is blinding yourself from the obvi ous.” The blurred line between “high” and “low” art has spread to jour nalism, as well: Last week, Dan Neil of the Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer Prize for automobile reviews that “blend his technical expertise with offbeat humor and cultural observations.” Leslie Wilson, the executive director of Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture, said that elitists derive feelings of intellectual supe riority by eschewing the study of popular culture in favor of the “high arts.” “Grey Machine” was an opus of eerie majesty, while “Ttipoli” was a fully sophisticated expanse of upper-register vocal harmonies and purposefully sluggish bass jumps. Very simply, Smith and Crow’s songs took on entirely new charac ter live. They were almost auda cious in their complexity. Virgin-viewer’s final internal monologue: “And to think, I was convinced Pinback played simple little pop ditties. “Djunn, my jaw hurts.” Contact the ACSE Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. “Elitists believe that which costs a lot of money to acquire and that which requires education to understand, holds more value than that which is easier to access,” she said. That elitism proved to be the most formidable obstacle when Browne tried to develop a pop cul ture program at BGSU. Evolving during the late 19605, it faced opposition from other, more established departments, such as English and history. Even American Studies programs failed to accept it as a valid course of study. “If there’s one thing aca demics can’t stand, it’s something new,” Browne said. Ironically, scholars believe that many American Studies programs are in trouble because they’ve become so politicized. So in their place, the necessity of popular cul ture programs has been realized the field is gaining recognition as the voice of America. “Popular culture is democracy and capitalism at its finest it’s about making money,” Wilson said. “That’s why the careful study of pop culture tells us so accurately what the hopes, dreams, needs and desires of the people were in any particular historical moment.” Roll over Shakespeare, tell Stephen King the news. Contact the ACSE Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. HELP WANTED! Women between the ages of 14 and 24 wanted to participate in an Emergency Contraception Research Study. Participants must be sexually active and not be pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant within the next year. Participants will need to visit the Planned Parenthood clinic in Chapel Hill or Durham 3 times in the next year. Enrolled women will receive compensation in the form of cash, vouchers for Planned Parenthood services, and gift certificates. For more information, call Jessica or Rebecca at 919-286-1770. 0 Planned Parenthood® Newly renovated patio and bar Bar Open & Bistro Menu available at 6 pm Weekly Specials Easy Tuesday - Senior's Night $4 Passion Fruit Margaritas With Wine Wednesdays $5 Reds $4 Whites Low Cars Thursdays $2.50 Domestic Light Bottles High Carb Sundays $3 Wheat Beers Free Homemade Cookies 202 W. Rosemary - 967.2506 www.laresldence.citysearch.com (Jljp iailg ®ar lirri DIVEBECOMMENDS “The Boondock Saints” Packed full of Massachusetts mayhem, this grisly flick about two beer drinking, Irish Catholic vigilantes is a definitive drive-by joy ride, heavy on the pitiless slaughter. Willem Dafoe plays the cross dressing detective whose job it is to bring justice to the pious execu tioners, whom Bostonians have dubbed the Boondock Saints. It’s a sheer thriller. Incidentally, it also makes pea coats seem cool. Duran Duran, Greatest You needn’t be a new-wave guru to appreciate the genius of this 1980s synth-pop phenomena. “Hungry Like The Wolf,” “Girls on Film,” “Ordinary World” all classic. And though I don’t actually “own” this CD, I listened to it in the car on the way back to school last weekend, and it was awesome. Who’s hungry? Who’s hungry? “Sealab 2021’ Cartoon Network’s finest, this faux-retro series is the gem of Adult Swim. Creators Adam Reed and Matt Thompson struck gold when they ripped off artwork from the dopey ’7os cartoon Sealab 2020 and paired it with a sharp sense of humor friendly to the college demo graphic. Best line: “Ahh mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.” “Nine Stories,” by J.D. Salinger Salinger is a master of the mun dane. He has an uncanny ability to make anything, particularly ciga rette smoking and cocktails, seem important. In “Nine Stories,” the man who gave us Holden Caulfield uses his characteristically terse prose to explore ideas of death, sex and the family. “A Perfect Day for Banana Fish,” haunting as it is, speaks to the magnitude of Salinger’s craft, if that even means anything. It’s good, all right. What do you want from me? Dismemberment Plan, Change Their name conjures up images of a demonic cult, but, in fact, the members of the Dismemberment Plan can be quite modest. On Change the band shows off this softer side, especially on the touch ing “Ellen and Ben.” Though it lacks the craziness of other Dismemberment Plan albums, Change cashes in big with earnest lyrics and temperate chords. Contact Jim Walsh at walshjp@email.unc.edu.
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