Ghost Town

Question 1

Ghost town

Answer 1

-low employment
-3 weeks top of charts
-thatcher era
-social injustice 1980

Question 2

Video (look of it)

Answer 2

Performative

Bleak urban landscape

Driving aimlessly

Question 3

Lyrics “this town, coming like a ghost town”

Answer 3

Tone of despair
With stiff body language

Question 4

Lyrics - “Clubs closed down”

Answer 4

Life = muted/dead
All crammed in a car connotes no place in society
Worms eye view - powerless
Green traffic like - beginning of new journey

Question 5

Chaotic movement - emotional turmoil of 1980s

Answer 5

CLIMAX - see shadows - feel were in it - larger ideology, affecting mood not people
Lowkey lighting had chiascuro effect (terror)

Question 6

Black Atlantic identity & Paul Gilroy - double consciousness

Answer 6

Race transcends national boarders, cultural identity & history cannot be defined by label specials
Good example = direct band = new genre (reggae and punk ska)

Question 7

Overview

Answer 7

Lifeless bleak streets - social collapse

Police sirens - brixton riots - brutality

Audience feel sympathy for band due to deep recession