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'Shame makes the world go around.’ Morrissey and the gendered discourse of class disgust
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posted on 2022-09-30, 11:41 authored by Martin PowerMartin Power, Aileen DillaneAileen Dillane, Eoin DevereuxEoin DevereuxCan popular music or an individual song text inform us about society and make us
question dominant discourses in the political and public sphere? This article will
argue that this is indeed the case, so while the mass media (in particular) provide the
dominant codes (Hall, 1999) that most audiences effortlessly recognise and relate to,
it is important to recognise that counter-hegemonic ideologies are also in circulation.
In a society where hegemonic discourses are produced by the upper and middle
classes, the capacity to articulate a contradictory narrative to the marginalised is
aided by the ‘reach’ of popular music (Botta 2006, p. 123).
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University of Limerick Department of Sociology Working Paper Series;WP2014-01Publisher
Department of Sociology, University of LimerickNote
non-peer-reviewedLanguage
EnglishDepartment or School
- Irish World Academy of Music & Dance
- Sociology
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