Clampdown: Pop-cultural wars on class and gen... Rhian E. Jones
Clampdown: Pop-cultural wars on class and gen... Rhian E. Jones Why have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? In particular, political and media policing…
Specifikacia Clampdown: Pop-cultural wars on class and gen... Rhian E. Jones
Clampdown: Pop-cultural wars on class and gen... Rhian E. Jones
Why have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? In particular, political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding chavs, has been accompanied by a similar restriction and regulation of the expression of working-class femininity in music. From chav-pop pantomimes to retro-chauvinist landfill indie, the bland, homogenous and compromised nature of the current 'alternative' sector reflects the interests of a similarly complacent and privileged political establishment.
This book traces the progress of this cultural clampdown over the past twenty