What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena

Artists are agents of invention who attempt to change the dominant conventions (although many individuals operating under the rubric of "artist" have much more pedestrian and commercial goals.)

1.9.1 The avant-garde exposes, devalues, and alters existing conventions in search of new cultural arrangements that could provide new aesthetic experiences... See more

This could be art, architecture, movies, television, comic books, podcasts, stories, music, instruments, dance, literature, fashion, hairstyles, food, poetry, toys, or branded products. Community members use these productions as outward expressions or justifications of their beliefs and ideologies that are subsequently integrated (and sometimes man

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Culture describes the conventions of a community, which guide individuals into regular behaviors and provide communal meanings and values.