Dhurata - Media blog 2 - coursework - Mr Bush

  The Specials - Ghost Town: Blog tasks Background and historical contexts Read this excellent analysis from The Conversation website of the impact Ghost Town had both musically and visually . Answer the following questions 1) Why does the writer link the song to cinematic soundtracks and music hall tradition? 2) What subcultures did 2 Tone emerge from in the late 1970s? 2 Tone had emerged stylistically from the Mod and Punk subcultures and its musical roots and the people in it, audiences and bands, were both black and white. Ska and the related Jamaican Rocksteady were its musical foundations. 3) What social contexts are discussed regarding the UK in 1981? England was hit by recession and away from rural Skinhead nights, riots were breaking out across its urban areas. Deprived, forgotten, run down and angry, these were places where young people, black and white, erupted. In these neglected parts of London, Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool the young, the unemployed, and the disaf...

  Media Magazine Theory Drop - Postmodernism Create a new blog post called 'Postmodernism in music video: blog tasks'. Read ‘The Theory Drop: Postmodernism’ in MM66  (p26). You'll find our Media Magazine archive here - remember you'll need your Greenford Google login to access. Answer the following questions: 1) How does the article define postmodernism in the first page of the article? Postmodernism takes this concept of questioning traditional structures, representations and expectations and pushes things a step further. 2) What did media theorist and Semiotician Roland Barthes suggest in his essay ' The Death of the Author '? In it, he challenged tradition when he said that a writer’s opinions, intentions or interpretation of their own work are no more valid than anyone else’s. 3) What is metatextuality? Metatextuality is where a text draws attention to the fact that it is a text. It points to the process of its own cr...

Wider reading on race and Old Town Road Read  this W Magazine deep dive on the Yeehaw agenda  and answer the following questions:  1) What are the visual cues the article lists as linked to the western genre?  Cowboy hats, cow print, rhinestones and fringed jackets. 2) How did the Yeehaw agenda come about?  The black community felt under-represented in modern Cowboy media even though in reality they made up at least 25% of Cowboys So, there was a push for more representation and to reclaim American media. 3) Why has it been suggested that the black cowboy has been 'erased from American culture'?  Hollywood reinforced white centred stories and rarely represented more ethnicities. 4) How has the black cowboy aesthetic been reflected by the fashion industry? Runway collections and luxury brands feature western themes with the  influence of black culture. 5) Read the section on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road. What does it suggest about race and the country mu...