“You're an American rapper, so what do you know?” The political uses of British and US popular culture by first-time voters in the United Kingdom

Street, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-063X and Inthorn, Sanna (2010) “You're an American rapper, so what do you know?” The political uses of British and US popular culture by first-time voters in the United Kingdom. Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics, 32 (4). pp. 177-200.

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Abstract

This paper addresses the question of whether and how contemporary forms of popular culture engage young people with the wider world, in particular with respect to the formation of their political identity. Drawing on the result of focus groups and interviews with seventeen-to-eighteen-year-olds, it examines how regional, national and global identities emerge in talk about US and UK popular culture. This empirical focus is set against the background of existing research into the various dimensions of popular culture's relationship to politics. The authors conclude that popular culture can act as a device in the construction of collective, political identities, albeit indirectly, by way of young people's assessment of the source, authenticity and legitimacy of multiple media representations.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Issue 4: Art After Empire: Creating the Political Economy of a New Democracy
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Political, Social and International Studies (former - to 2014) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2013 15:08
Last Modified:	09 Jan 2024 01:26
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/44739
DOI:	10.1080/07393148.2010.520435

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