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The Oxford English Dictionary lists the first use of the phrase popular culture as 1854. The concept appeared earlier in an address by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in 1818.
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer coined the term culture industry in their 1947 work Dialectic of Enlightenment. They argued that capitalist popular culture produces homogenous, standardized products to serve elite domination rather than authentic expression.
Cobalt and tantalum are critical minerals frequently sourced from mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These mines often use child labour and expose artisanal miners to lethal hazards while generating vast profits for multinational conglomerates.
The origins of popular music began in the late 1800s with the inventions of Edison's phonograph and Berliner's gramophone. These technologies allowed music to be available for purchase to the public rather than just the elites.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol are the artists known during the pop art movement. This movement emerged in the 1950s as a reaction to traditional and high-class art.