Cultural production
Yes, there are some songs that I enjoyed listening to and came to realize that they conveyed something I had not noticed before. For example, the Slide by Goo Goo Dolls- which sounds like a love song, but it is not. The music is about a teenage girl raised in Catholic surroundings and becomes pregnant—the girl debate having an abortion with her boyfriend.
One of the widely acceptable elements of American culture I would pick is hamburgers. One of the forces that made this cultural food in America popular is the technology behind it. Large companies like McDonald, Carl’s Jr., and other figured ways to meet massive demand and reach the food to broad market through open chain stores that give priorities to quality ingredients. At first, Hemberger was associated with immigration groups, and although the quality was not that pleasing, the country renewed focus on quality over convenience. Thus, making the culture of this food popular.
Besides co-opting subcultures like Goth punk Barbie, another example is the co-optation of punk culture, for example, a t-shirt with pictures of safety pins. The image might be useful when talking about commodification, and it is the largest in the co-opting punk aesthetic-first stores. Some stores like Hot Topic started clothes with rip and pins in them, and people could pay a lot of cash for pre-packaged punk as well as goth looks. Today, stores have gone a step ahead to have pictures of safety ins as a way to evoke a sense of non-conformity in an easy way.
I think consumers’ tastes drives cultural production because in business for example, sellers are on the look to identify buyers’ preferences. People’s needs are accessed, and then organizations deliver what the market want. Supermarkets, for instance, have observed and adapted to the trend of imported food.