Ghost Town Flashcards
How is ghost town
Ghost town is a hybrid genre music video with a mix of ska and punk making it a hybrid text
Relaased in 1981 vividly capturing thesocial and economic decay of British in the early 1980s
What was happening the time of ghost town
Margret thatcher Britain
The country was going through an economic rival
Young people believed that they weren’t being litented to by the government or th police and they started acting reckless which turnt into the July riots and continued over to 20 countries
Unemployment had rose to 200 million in thus time - it was mainly the black mails which we getting targets
Key shots
Reckless driving: no control ment of the youth at the ones who were unemployed and always in trouble by the police
The scene of the ending on the tunnel : shows that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and that it wont be much longer until it is back too Normal
The deserted. Streets and building- These visuals reflect the economic decline and neglect that many British cities were experiencing at the time.
The ending scene of them all together - everyone coming together as one 9 all races)
What are some key lyrics
“Bands won’t play no more too much fighting on the dance floor” - clubs became a dangerous place for people and the violet was seen on the dance floors would then escalate to the streets later on
Why must the youth fight again themselves _ anger at the decay of youths spilled into violent attacks
“This town is coming like a ghost town” - in 1981 when the song was wrote e- the British economy was the sickenman of Europe and the unemployment rate was soaring
What does Godwin’s theory say and how does it relate to ghost town
He believed that everything links - the visuals and the lyrics
Which we can see throughout ghost town tat they do link together
How does Stuart hall relate to the music video
Because people will take the text in a ny way
Some may take it how the specials wanted it to be taken - a way to show of what was happening in the world and why it needed to be stopped
People who can understand that ide but not necessary agree with it and make their own assumption
And some people will say its just a music video with no meaning behind t
How does Paul gilroy theory relate to this music video
It doesn’t - Paul gilroys says that black minorities are shown as diffrent however throughout the whole music video they are shown as the same and not distant to the white member of the m=band
Who owns the special
Two tone radio
What enigma does the empty streets create at the start of the music video
It makes the town seem deoslate and sad
