Industrializing Nationalist Dissent: Music Censorship, 2 Live Crew, and the Politics of Performance at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.
This article considers how performances at the Video Music Awards (VMAs) have been central to constructing the cultural brand of MTV by fusing debates around nationalism, anticensorship, and consumer activism. When the rap group 2 Live Crew performed their single “Banned in the U.S.A.” during the 19...
| Publicado en: | Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television no. 89; pp. 45 - 56 |
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University of Texas Press
Spring2022
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