The most enduring, and perhaps most archaic now, soap opera trope is the well-tuned, ever-present organ music. We can trace the cultural relevance of music of soap operas to its very roots on the radio. This first entry will focus on soap operas and their cultural relevance in the field of music. For the sake of clarity, I’ve divided this series into several parts. And, sometimes, more reputable forms of entertainment finds their way into soap operas. Elements of soap operas and their serialized storytelling have made its way into other, more reputable forms of entertainment. There is more to a soap opera than the problems of beautiful people swapping romantic partners. Soap opera as an art form has influenced mainstream culture but often is ignored in the greater history of television, because of its perceived reputation of narrative time-passers between home cleansing commercials. Rather, I’d define the “cultural relevance” as continuing, ever-changing usage of soap operas (or material from them) within mainstream culture and television history, and why its use matters. So, I decided I might as well put all the soap opera knowledge in my head to good use and write those articles.įor me, to write about the cultural relevance of soap operas would need to be more than just a generic list of when a soap opera is referenced in other works. At a recent game night, I gave an explanation of “ABC Super Soap Weekend,” prompting a friend to remark that he would love to read a series of articles about the cultural relevance of soap operas. This usually causes consternation among the other players, many hope they don’t pick up that noun in the bucket.
On game nights, my friends and I enjoy playing a game entitled “Nouns in a Bucket.” I’ll save the explanation of gameplay for another article, but the more relevant point is that every time I write down my nouns for the bucket, I always include at least one soap opera, or something soap opera related, as one of my nouns.
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