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Popular culture has long been held up to us, by participants and critics, as a carrier of resistance, a potentially subversive practice. Perhaps now, reviewing the intellectual or academic theories that have sustained this claim, the language and orthodoxies of ‘subversion’, of ‘power’ and ‘desire’, can be traced and then put in doubt, volatilised more than a little.
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Oldfield, P. (1989). After Subversion: Pop Culture and Power. In: McRobbie, A. (eds) Zoot Suits and Second-Hand Dresses. Youth Questions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19999-0_20
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