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The heroic journey in popular culture

Popular culture integrates people in diverse settings. Individuals share ideas through materials they use, including food, dresses, movies, magazines, and holiday spots. In the past, people set for pilgrimage to holy sites; these days, they go on trekking through hills. Pilgrimages to consecrated sites have been replaced by people's journey to discotheque, fashion center and shopping complex in the modern time corporate world. What binds them together is the transformation of consciousness in line with the journey from the terrestrial to the celestial sphere. Specific human activities, including pilgrimage and business trip become popular culture when people make them significant parts of their lives. Sound and images of disco, jazz, hip-hop, and pop-rock have entered the streets and hotels equally in cities of the industrial world, from Lhasa to London, Karachi to Kathmandu, and Tokyo to New York, irrespective of their cultures and ethnic backgrounds. In today’s world of saturated media presence, images and icons of heroes and legends, motivated by commercial and popular appeal, are circulated with a greater speed, becoming simultaneously a shared mythic currency and continuity, the modern world embodiment of silk road business, and thus, crossing the East-West divide. | THE HEROIC JOURNEY IN POPULAR CULTURE Dhruba Karki ABSTRACT Popular culture integrates people in diverse settings. Individuals share ideas through materials they use includingfood dresses movies magazines and holiday spots. In the past people set for pilgrimage to holy sites these days they go on trekking through hills. Pilgrimages to consecrated sites have been replaced by people s journey to discotheque fashion center and shopping complex in the modern time corporate world. What binds them together is the transformation of consciousness in line with the journey from the terrestrial to the celestial sphere. Specific human activities including pilgrimage and business trip become popular culture when people make them significant parts of their lives. Sound and images of disco jazz hip-hop and pop-rock have entered the streets and hotels equally in cities of the industrial world from Lhasa to London Karachi to Kathmandu and Tokyo to New York irrespective of their cultures and ethnic backgrounds. In today s world of saturated media presence images and icons of heroes and legends motivated by commercial and popular appeal are circulated with a greater speed becoming simultaneously a shared mythic currency and continuity the modern world embodiment of silk road business and thus crossing the East-West divide. Key Words Popular culture humanities hero transformation folklore. INTRODUCTION Popular culture is people s culture. An M Phil course on popular culture helps students understand everyday culture that they can imbibe through multiple texts ranging from verbal to visual. Topics in this paper revolve across sports and advertisement film and fiction mythology and technology and folklore and cyberculture. Central to the humanities program Popular Culture inculcates in the university graduates civic sense of love and compassion to the humanity. Connecting the university academia to an ever changing world this course assists to bring together the elite and the folk to .