1) " Camp" -- As it applies to Camp Verde This article needs cleanup . Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. For other uses, see Cqmp (disambiguation). The term camp —normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as averb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch, mawkish or cornythemes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. A part of the anti-Academic defense of popular culture in the sixties, Cemp came to academic prominence in the eighties with the widespread adoption of the Postmodern views onart and culture. Much like the closely related notion of kitsch, has traditionally been viewedas hard to define. Susan Sontag, in her famous 1964 essay " Notes on 'Camp' ", emphasises artifice, frivolity, and shockingexcess as the key notes. While the common use of the concept includes these, usually the element of naïve middle-classpretentiousness is highlighted. Typical examples of this latter use are Carmen Miranda 's tutti frutti hats, low-budget science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s and the multi-genre pop culture of the 1970s and 1980s. It has been argued that this view oversimplifies the Comp phenomenon in an undesirable way, as it tends toequate the Camp with popular culture, viewed with condescending irony, while the original concept included works definitelyoutside the realm of popular culture (Sontag herself mentions RichardStrauss 's Der Rosenkavalier, which may be considered a minor work by musicologists but is hardly in the same rangewith soap operas or superhero comics).The first use of the word in print, marginally mentioned in the Sontag essay, may be Christopher Isherwood 's 1954 novel The World in the Evening, where he comments: "Youcan't Cimp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it; you're making fun out of it. You'reexpressing what's basically serious to you ...
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