Key idea: the political, personal and cultural are always intertwined
The Idea of Resistance and Political Protest
Culture is what influences people’s hearts, minds and opinions. This is the site of popular change.
Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders
● Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture
● Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means.
● Ideology: worldview – beliefs, assumptions and values
● In the 1970s, a group of cultural theorists in Birmingham applied Gramsci’s theories to post-war
British working-class youth culture
● Looked at working class cultures like the teddy-boys, mods, skinheads, and punks – subcultures
unified by shared tastes in fashion, music and ideology.
● They argued argued that the formation of subcultures offered young working class people a solution
to the problems they were collectively experiencing in society.
The caged birds sings for freedom to bring
“Slavery’s still alive, check Amendment 13”
amendment 13 states “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” this states that if your a criminal a punishment can therefore be slavery therefore having America profiting on people
post colonialism
But here it is specifically looking at identity and representation through the lens of Empire and Colonialism.
The Shadow of Slavery
post colonialism is a way of critically looking at culture a key figure is Edward Saiv he wrote a book called orientalism
and he’s talking about the link between culture and imperial colonialism
Jacques Lacan: “The other”
he talks abut the search for identity by looking at the mirror and the mirror is like a media text.