When nationalism meets hip-hop: aestheticized politics of ideotainment in China

• Published in: Communication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 178 - 195
• Main Author: Zou, Sheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 03.07.2019
• Subjects: aura; hip-hop; ideological state apparatus; ideotainment; nationalism

This essay unravels the coalescence between bottom-up youth culture and state-led ideological work in China by examining the patriotic hip-hop music videos of a Chinese youth band. I attend to the ways in which the state-centric ideology is aesthetically evoked by co-opting popular cultural formats,...