The dance, literature, music, theater, cinema, television, language, fashion, and other cultural indicators intended for or appreciated by the mainstream public rather than an elite audience. Popular culture reflects changes of style, fads, nostalgia, critical revivals, popular institutions, and forms borrowed from elite art, folk art, or foreign culture.
Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300055794
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