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| "Pop culture - the folk culture of the modern market, the culture of the instant, at once subsuming past and future and refusing to acknowledge the reality of either - began about 1948, in the United States and Great Britain." --Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, p. 257. |
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1948 is the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
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Art and culture
- The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Jack Kerouac introduces the term Beat Generation
- Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Literature
- And We'll Kill All the Ugly Ones by Boris Vian
- The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal
- The Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis
Visual culture
Music
- Étude aux chemins de fer by Pierre Schaeffer is recorded
- Black Coffee by written by Sonny Burke, the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Births
Tee Scott - Brian Eno - Lester Bangs - Catherine Breillat - John Carpenter - Nick Drake - Donna Summer - Joe Dallesandro - Ian McEwan - Martin Hannett - William Gibson - Francis Grasso - Glenn Branca - Gérard Depardieu - Catherine Millet - Eric Fischl - John Martyn - James Ellroy
Deaths
Antonin Artaud - Sergei Eisenstein - Kurt Schwitters
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