You're confusing something here - the music is the music, regardless of where it's showing up, so of course AMVs reflect current culture insofar as their "M" component is concerned. As for the "A" and V" parts, OUR current culture is not Japan's current culture - we're importing it via anime, actually, so claiming the "A" and "V" reflect OUR culture doesn't really compute very well. Except if you're going to say we are embracing various facets of other cultures - but anime is pretty easy to swallow - or that the Internet is promoting globalization, but it's been doing that for awhile now.Adv1sor wrote:Ok, my thanks for the comments.
What I meant to say is that, with music being half the equation, if popular music reflects the current culture do not AMVs using that music do the same?
Maybe some will suggest that the music is less than half the equation?
I think you need to separate the content of AMVs from the AMVs themselves when asking if it/they reflect current culture.
