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Clampdown: Pop-cultural wars on class and gender
Author(s): Rhian E. Jones (Author)
- Publisher: Zero Books
- Publication Date: 29 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 113 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780997086
- ISBN-13: 9781780997087
Book Description
Why have both pop and politics in Britain become the preserve of an unrepresentative elite? 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. 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. This book traces the progress of this cultural clampdown over the past twenty years.
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About the Author
Rhian E. Jones lives in London where she writes on history, politics, popular culture and the places where they intersect.
