Western Export Culture
«Western export culture is a one-way highway shoving itself down the throats of the entire world. The developing nations do not have a reciprocal avenue to fire back at the West, to promote their culture.»
This quote is taken from the Book «Punk Ethnography: Artists & Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies» edited 2016 by Michael Vael and Tammy Kim and published by Wesleyan University Press.
Biography
Published on September 09, 2016
Last updated on June 27, 2022
Topics
From Beyoncés colonial stagings in mainstream pop to the ethical problems of Western people «documenting» non-Western cultures.
How does this ideology, but also its sheer physical expressions such as labor affect cultural production? From hip hop’s «bling» culture to critical evaluations of cultural funding.