Journal article
Re-producing pop: The aesthetics of ambivalence in a contemporary dance music
International journal of cultural studies, v 9(2)
Jun 2006
Abstract
Electroclash is an electronic dance music popular in cities like New York, Los
Angeles, and London between 2001 and 2004. In this article, I use the example of
electroclash to demonstrate the significance of media in structuring social reality.
I argue that electroclash constitutes a set of aesthetic tactics for living through
the confusions and contradictions of life in a media-saturated, increasingly
globalized, late capitalist economy. It is produced by a diverse assemblage of urban
youth, whose primary commonality is an ambivalent relationship towards media.
Electroclash artists, I argue, engage with and respond to meanings within existing
media texts. They ironically perform the clichés and representations of
popular culture, re-investing them with critical, though often ambiguous new
meanings. In these re-readings of media, I conclude, electroclash artists blur the
distinction between celebration and critique, and ultimately complicate any
clear-cut, theoretical opposition between resistance and accommodation.
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Details
- Title
- Re-producing pop
- Creators
- Brent Luvaas - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Publication Details
- International journal of cultural studies, v 9(2)
- Publisher
- Sage Publications; Thousand Oaks, CA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Global Studies and Modern Languages
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33646699817
- Other Identifier
- 991014877955804721