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The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 17
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