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...having transcended the boundary between academic and mainstream, what does genre even matter, after...
...Those principles are increasingly well-defined. Whether the party can win the votes to support them is a murkier matter. Martin and Mandile dismiss notions of a Tea Party purity test for candidates, and mainstream Republicans are trumpeting the movement's potential boost to the GOP in November. "I think they're going to be enormously influential," says Pete Wehner, a former Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administration official who is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. "I don't get a sense that this flame is going to be dimmed much." But Republicans...
Formerly constrained to fraternity houses and re-runs of “That 70s Show,” our generation, especially college students, has taken “bro” into the mainstream. I attribute it to shifting identities, as our generation, placing less existential emphasis on nation, family, and religion, seeks to fulfill its biological need for community elsewhere. Perhaps we are so desperate for real familial connections, and yet lacking in the time to form them, that we attach the word “brother” or “sister?...
Whatever the feelings toward a cultural trend noteworthy because of its appropriation of other cultural outputs may be, the Hipster needs to be legitimized in mainstream discourse, if for no other reason than for a better understanding of where we are as a society...
...definite spatial prerogative involving dependable access to amenities required for a comfortable, relevant existence. The outplay of this has been a new wave of gentrification in American cities. There is gender and sexual flexibility in the metropolitan Hipster scene, but this comes with the relative safety of increased mainstream and corporate acceptance of queer identities, which the Beats did not have. The music of Hipsters is the mash-up, which rather than putting forth an original and challenging new style of music, plays off the popularity of different mainstream elements that produces something new, but not original...