Ghost town is a music video which vocalises the racism issues surrounding the united kingdom while the prime minister was Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher created the notion of keeping Britain white linking with orientalism as Black British citizens had ideas created against them changing people attitudes and actions against them.

Ghost town is apart of the SKA movement led by 2tone which was a mix of blues music crossed with rhythmic music. The movement in the UK was based upon battling racism and pushing back against the British conservatoire government.

The idea of a car crash is suggested within the video, where all band members become ghosts haunting the empty city. This has connotations with the idea of it being a ghost town as ghosts haunt the town.

Letter to the free

letter to the free is a music video fighting against racism in America. This music video suggests that America is a prison to black citizens which is seen through the lyrics “Prison is a business, America’s the company”. The idea that it is based around America being unsafe for black citizens is through the fact that when slavery was abolished, an amendment came in suggesting a practice of punishment for crime. Up to40% of prison inmates were black citizens many of which were innocent but due to the corrupt justice system and racial profiling against black citizens many were convicted for crimes they did not commit.

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Stuart Hall agreed with the idea of two systems of representation. Language being used as a from of communication and conceptual being visual and what you see being what you think about. As an audience we visualise America to be a prison due to the lyrics “Prison is a business, Americas the company” in Letter To The Free. This communication to the audience is a form of encoding and decoding. Due to the artist encoding the idea of being stuck and unsafe in a place which was advertised to be safe, which the audience decode to be America profiling these citizens due to skin colour.