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cultural performance theory  

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  • Cultural performance theory offers an approach for understanding culture within the activity of everyday life. It serves as a means to conceptualize culture by placing culture at the center of hegemonic, or dominating, messages and revealing the hierarchical structure of society through lived experience. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Cultural Performance Theory]

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