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agitpop

(ˈædʒɪtˌpɒp)
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the use of pop music to promote political propaganda
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(My books Agitpop: Political Culture and Communication Theory and Political Culture and Public Opinion deal with Wildavsky's theory in some detail and apply it to American popular culture and other subjects as well.)
Agitpop veterans State Radio pummel anti-war anthem John Brown, brutally battering the door of the hero's heart-rending return; Marianne Faithfull's broken baby Let Me Follow You Down is backed by simple ukelele; the legendary Pete Seeger rasps his way through Forever Young, with a gospel choir swelling the chorus.
Last night the festival continued with a headline performance by Rage Against The Machine, the US agitpop rockers who beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the top of the Christmas chart after an online fan campaign.
It's not the alienation effect of agitpop or even a protest, but a deeper existential ambivalence about the state of the world, as if to ask, Is it even worth saving?
The compilation opens with Kevin Ayers, who ranks alongside Barrett as one of the key pioneers of Britain's progressive movement, with Singing a Song in the Morning and Warwick's own Edgar Broughton Band, an important force in Harvest's early days, present American Boy Solider as an example of what Brown describes as their "agitpop doo-wop with machine guns."
No fue sino hasta principios de los anos noventa que la relacion entre medios y cultura politica fue abordada explicitamente por Arthur Asa Berger, en Agitpop. Berger, respirado en el trabajo de Wildavsky, estudia la relacion entre culturas politicas y preferencias culturales de los ciudadanos utilizando teoria cultural, destacando el caracter politico del consumo de material de entretenimiento y enfatizando el caracter activo de los individuos en el consumo cultural.
Agitpop, el primer estudio sobre la relacion entre cultura politica y cultura de masas, probo que era correcto el pronostico de que, una vez redefinido como constructo social, el concepto de cultura politica seria mas util y prometedor para los investigadores de la comunicacion (Swanson y Nimmo 1990: 36-37).
Agitpop es el resultado de un estudio realizado entre 1987 y 1990.
En primer lugar, Agitpop muestra que el consumo de la cultura de medios es una practica cargada de valores ideologicos (Ibid.: 14).
El enfasis en el papel activo del consumidor es una segunda aportacion de Agitpop. La apelacion ideologica de cualquier mensaje resulta inefectiva sin la participacion del receptor.