Poetry kitsch, instrument of power in the 17TH century
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Kitsch, ideology, power, message, communication, masses
Abstract
Many of the poems that were part of the song books and volumes of poetry, several circulating during the Baroque were kitsch products to meet the demand for information and culture of an emerging mass society. Works of mass consumption created, not only to entertain but to convey a message that, since power, reaching the largest possible number of receivers. All this in a context, the 17TH century, in which songbooks and sheets of string and novelists covered the absence of mass media.Downloads
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2014-05-07
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Aguilar Serrano P. (2014). Poetry kitsch, instrument of power in the 17TH century. Historia y Comunicación Social, 19, 689-701. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_HICS.2014.v19.45170
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