Newton, S;
(2019)
'Born To Be Wild': Postmodern Decadence at the 1996 Republican Convention.
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Abstract
This article examines the entrance to the 1996 Republican National Convention of Senator Trent Lott, who was riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a gray pony-tail stapled to his helmet. The Star Bangled Banner at the convention was the version performed by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock. This article examines the surrealistic dimensions and potential sociopolitical ramifications of such a cartoonlike juxtaposition of the complexities of class identity, cultural hegemony, and the military-industrial unconscious.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | 'Born To Be Wild': Postmodern Decadence at the 1996 Republican Convention |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.1755-4527.098 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.1755-4527.098 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 Stephen Newton. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Decadence, Spectacle, Political Campaign, Republican National Convention 1996, Trent Lott, Motorcycle |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079976 |
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