Cultural Movements: Evolution and Impact

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A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This is including different art forms, sciences, and philosophies. Throughout history, different regions of the world have gone through their own independent sequence of cultural movement. When cultural movements go through revolutions, genres tend to get criticized and mixed up, resulting in new genres of cultural movement being generated as old ones fade. It could be because as generations change, their mentality and analyzation of what’s being culturally put forth has grown stale and repetitive. An obsession emerges among the mainstream with ideals of a new movement, and the old one falls into neglect, is altered to fit the new, or sometimes …show more content…

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