Exploring Entertainment Management and Popular Culture

Intro to Entertainment Management

ENTERTAINMENT AND POPULAR CULTURE - The impact of pop icons and performers in music, dance, and theatre combined with social media has made the entertainment industry a rave for popular culture to thrive. Pop culture is entertainment, music, and sports. Popular culture is distributed across many forms of mass communication.

MUSIC AND POP CULTURE - It contrasts with high cultural art forms, such as opera, classical music, and artworks, magazines, radio, television, movies, music, books, cheap novels, comics, cartoons, and advertising. After the Industrial Revolution, people had increased leisure time. This led to a demand for amusement and entertainment, which also prompted the growth of mass media.

ENTERTAINMENT - An activity designed to delight through the display of special skills. It includes 'any kind of genre of entertainment, dance, theatre, game, play, athletic or musical performances by self for self or others. It is an experience that can be sold to and enjoyed by large and heterogeneous groups of people'.

Can use comedians, a variety of performers, speakers, or bands for an event. A string quartet could light up the mood and ambiance at a wedding. Acoustic guitarists, singers, harpists, and keyboard players are popular individual choices for music to accompany an event.

Matching The Right Entertainment And Event: Wedding (choir, orchestra, live band, DJ); Corporate and Special Events; Touring Artists; College Concert and Performers; Casino Fair and Festival attractions; Orchestra. Corporate events, product launches, annual dinners (Bonding amongst employees; Reward employees; Entertainment), dinner entertainment, family day/carnival, orchestra

Cirque Du Soleil (Circus of the Sun) - A dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment. Acrobatics, stunts, dance, grace, acting, art forms from around the world, and imaginary worlds are characteristics that define the genre of entertainment in Cirque du Soleil.

Chinese acrobatics ranks among the best in the world, thanks to its long history, rich repertory, and distinctive artistic characteristics.

VENUES FOR ENTERTAINMENT - The list of venues and space is endless. Outdoor to indoor. Convert an unused powerhouse to a theatre space. Concourse of a shopping mall and its flow of audience.