Zócalo Public SquarePlease Don’t Dream About Impressing Keith Urban – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Please Don’t Dream About Impressing Keith Urban https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/11/19/please-dont-dream-about-impressing-keith-urban/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2013/11/19/please-dont-dream-about-impressing-keith-urban/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:01:50 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=51702 American popular culture has long glamorized the unhealthy and unsavory. We go to the movies and watch attractive people puffing cigarettes or mafiosos strutting around in sharkskin suits killing off their enemies. We turn on our radios and hear a rap song that celebrates the violent excess of Scarface—or a pop song about dancing with Molly. In advance of the Zócalo/Getty Center event “Why Do We Need Glamour?” we asked several thinkers the following question: What do we glamorize in 2013 that we shouldn’t?

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