J Street
Biographic Data
| ID | 11850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Street |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Street |
| SIGNATURE | STREET J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9650-063X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 731 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Commentary
This Commentary argues that, in studying artificial intelligence in the creator economy, we need to consider more than questions of technology, artistic innovation, or markets. We need also to confront questions of political order, collective governance, and the varieties of creator policies that arise in response to AI. We need to reflect upon what is entailed by justice and what is meant by democracy in the management of AI. In short, as well a…
Our People’s Voice? Populism and Popular Music
This article explores the relationship between music and populism. It is commonly assumed that popular music in particular is intrinsically populist. There is, though, no necessary link between the two, and this article examines how and when music becomes implicated in the populist politics of the right and the left. It does this by focusing on the rhetoric of song lyrics, on the stylistic forms of music’s political communication and on the organ…
Do Celebrities Make Policy
Do celebrities exercise power over policy making? It can seem that they do, at least in the way the media reports their political activities. We need to think only of the coverage of the footballer Marcus Rashford's seemingly successful campaign to get the Johnson administration to change its policy on free school meals. But are such accounts to be trusted? This is a question whose answer has implications for how we understand and judge contempor…
Introduction to special issue
The state's coercive engagement with Black youth expressive culture, and rap music in particular, is a topic of mounting public and scholarly concern. Rap lyrics and videos made by defendants and codefendants are regularly used as evidence in court cases in ways that incite bias against young people in the dock. At the same time, the performance and circulation of rap music are increasingly monitored and constrained by the police and other bodies…
The British Blues Network
This book tells the story of how, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of white, British, suburban boys fell in love with the blues music of black Americans; how those boys formed bands to play the music; and how they ended up as part of the ‘rock aristocracy’, owning landed estates and living like gentry. Summarised in this way, it’s a familiar story—the stuff of countless histories of popular music, of (auto)biographies and of the occasio…
What is Donald Trump? Forms of ‘Celebrity’ in Celebrity Politics
It is widely assumed that Donald Trump is a ‘celebrity politician’ and that he has cashed in his success on the reality show The Apprentice to secure political credibility and attention. In this respect, he fits what Matthew Wood et al. have labelled the ‘superstar celebrity politician’. This characterisation is the latest in a number of refinements to the definition and understanding of the celebrity politician. While this is a helpful move, I w…
The politics of the Digital Single Market
This paper examines the implications for European music culture of the European Union’s (EU) Digital Single Market strategy. It focuses on the regulatory framework being created for the management of copyright policy, and in particular the role played by collective management organisations (CMOs or collecting societies). One of the many new opportunities created by digitalisation has been the music streaming services. These depend on consumers be…
Does it threaten the status quo?’ Elite responses to British punk, 1976–1978
The emergence of punk in Britain (1976–1978) is recalled and documented as a moment of rebellion, one in which youth culture was seen to challenge accepted values and forms of behaviour, and to set in motion a new kind of cultural politics. In this article we do two things. First, we ask how far punk's challenge extended. Did it penetrate those political, cultural and social elites against which it set itself? And second, we reflect on the proble…
Reflections on the Mercury Music Prize
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The sampling continuum
This article argues for a view of popular music production that better accounts for sampling than has historically been the case by viewing it as a continuum of activity. Weighing evidence from interviews with musical practitioners against the legal and industry frameworks, we illustrate, first, how sampling has been legally differentiated from other types of musical copying. Secondly we show that, despite this, comparable ethical codes exist wit…
Copying, copyright and originality
With copyright becoming ever more important for business and government, this article argues for a more nuanced understanding of the practices and values associated with copying in popular music culture and advocates a more critical approach to notions of originality. Drawing from interviews with working musicians, this article challenges the approaches to copying and popular music that pitch corporate notions of piracy against creative sharing b…
The Revolution Will not Be Televised
Protest music has rarely enjoyed a good press. Even in the 1960s, when it was widely perceived to be enjoying its heyday, its leading representative, Bob Dylan, was quick to distance himself from the genre. Protest music came to be seen as worthy and a bit dull. It was polemical rather than poetical, and in an early version of today’s online echo chambers, was deemed to be preaching to the converted. Audiences were expected to agree with the song…
Copy Rights
This article analyses the politics of copyright and copying. Copyright is an increasingly important driver of the modern economy, but this does not exhaust its significance. It matters, we argue, not just for the distribution of rewards and resources in the creative industries, but as a site within which established political concerns – collective and individual interests and identities – are articulated and negotiated and within which notions of…
Regulating for creativity and cultural diversity
This paper explores the role of intermediary institutions in promoting creativity and cultural diversity in the music industry, and the impact of cultural policy on the performance of those intermediaries. It reviews some of the existing literature on the relationship between economic conditions and innovation in music, and argues that too little attention has been paid to intermediaries. Focusing on collective management organisations (CMOs) as …
I Wanna See Some History’
Tucked away on the b-side of the Sex Pistols’ third single, ‘Pretty Vacant’ (1977), is a cover version of The Stooges’ ‘No Fun’. The song had long been a staple of the Pistols’ live set; on record, however, Johnny Rotten chose to open the track with a diatribe against those attempting to imbue the punk culture he helped instigate with broader socio-economic, cultural or political implications. ‘Here we go now’, he snarled, ‘a sociology lecture, w…
What Do Musicians Talk About When They Talk About Copyright
Based primarily on interviews with musicians who sit on the margins of the music industry and for whom music is not their main source of income, this article reports on how these artists and performers think and talk about copyright. If, as many suppose, the business of making music is more and more about the distribution of rights, how are these rights understood and valued in the practices of these musicians? What are these rights seen to prote…
Introduction
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What makes for prize-winning television
We investigate the determinants of success in four international television awards festivals between 1994 and 2012. We find that countries with larger markets and greater expenditure on public broadcasting tend to win more awards, but that the degree of concentration in the market for television and rates of penetration of pay-per-view television are unrelated to success. These findings are consistent with general industrial organisation literatu…
Copyright and musicians at the digital margins
While there is research into consumer attitudes to copyright and downloading, and the music industry has made clear its own views in evidence to the Hargreaves Review and other forums, relatively little is known about musicians’ attitudes to copyright. This article reports on those musicians who are negotiating the new terrain created by digitization and its accompanying business models. Are their attitudes to copyright simply determined by their…
From entertainment to citizenship
It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of engagement too. The place of popular culture in politics, and its contribution to democratic life, has too often been misrepresented or misunderstood.
The Sound of Geopolitics
In respect of its subject matter, much popular music tends to be introspective and parochial. Its focus rarely falls upon international affairs and global politics. However, there are instances when popular music does engage with wider, political issues and even affects the relations between states. This article draws attention to some of these instances, from the recent imprisonment of Pussy Riot in Russia to Live 8 in 2005. It asks how and when…
Music, markets and manifestos
This article is about the value of music, measured not in aesthetic terms, but rather as a matter of practical politics. The question of cultural value is, of course, familiar to those who study cultural policy. Typically, the political debate divides between (1) those who argue that music must take its chance in the market, where its value will be revealed in the price consumers are willing to pay; (2) those who see music as having social value,…
Popular Culture as a Resource for Political Engagement
Based on focus groups and interviews with first-time voters in the UK, this study reflects critically on the role of popular culture as a resource of political engagement. Unlike previous studies, it looks at a wide range of popular culture and suggests that entertainment television, video games and popular music provide young citizens with some of the resources they need actively to engage in the public sphere. Young citizens struggle to see the…
Do Celebrity Politics and Celebrity Politicians Matter
This article asks what it means to take celebrity politics seriously. It does so from three perspectives. It begins by looking at the case of New Labour and the role that celebrity politics played in party political communication and in government policy-making. It places both in the context of New Labour's cultural policy more broadly. This leads to a second perspective, in which the focus is upon how celebrity politics might be seen within soci…
Popular culture and political communication
Some commentators have welcomed a world in which political advertisements resemble music videos and in which film and rock stars behave like politicians. Others have complained bitterly at what they see as the ‘dumbing down’ of political communication. This chapter puts this debate in perspective. It examines the contrasting explanations for why political communication has adopted the possibilities offered by popular culture. It identifies the wa…
Celebrity Politicians
Considerable political and media attention has focused on the phenomenon of the 'celebrity politician'. As this article illustrates, there are two main variants of the phenomenon. The first is the elected politician or candidate who uses elements of 'celebrityhood' to establish their claim to represent a group or cause. The second is the celebrity-the star of popular culture-who uses their popularity to speak for popular opinion. Both examples ha…
Democracy, deliberation and design
Within democratic theory, the deliberative variant has assumed pre-eminence. It represents for many the ideal of democracy, and in pursuit of this ideal, online discussion forums have been proposed as solutions to the practical limits to mass deliberation. Critics have pointed to evidence which suggests that online discussion has tended to undermine deliberation. This article argues that this claim, which generates a stand-off between the two cam…
Do Celebrity Politics and Celebrity Politicians Matter
This article asks what it means to take celebrity politics seriously. It does so from three perspectives. It begins by looking at the case of New Labour and the role that celebrity politics played in party political communication and in government policy-making. It places both in the context of New Labour's cultural policy more broadly. This leads to a second perspective, in which the focus is upon how celebrity politics might be seen within soci…
What is Donald Trump? Forms of ‘Celebrity’ in Celebrity Politics
It is widely assumed that Donald Trump is a ‘celebrity politician’ and that he has cashed in his success on the reality show The Apprentice to secure political credibility and attention. In this respect, he fits what Matthew Wood et al. have labelled the ‘superstar celebrity politician’. This characterisation is the latest in a number of refinements to the definition and understanding of the celebrity politician. While this is a helpful move, I w…
Fight the Power
Popular music has a long and varied association with politics. It has provided the soundtrack to political protest and been the object of political censorship; politicians have courted pop stars and pop stars — like Bono of U2 — have acted as politicians. But although these more familiar aspects of pop's connections to politics have been noted in passing, they have not received a great deal of academic attention, and there are other aspects of th…
Political Culture–from Civic Culture to Mass Culture
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Simon Cowell for prime minister’? Young citizens’ attitudes towards celebrity politics
Playing to the Crowd
Music and politics have long been connected. One of the most recent examples was Live 8 in July 2005, when a series of concerts was used to put pressure on G8 leaders to change their policy on third world debt. While the connection is often observed, it is rarely analysed in any detail. This article is an attempt to provide some of that detail. It begins by asking whether participating in music can also mean participating in politics. It goes on …
Local differences? popular music and the local state
This is the story of a rock venue in an English city. Hardly, it might be supposed, the stuff of great drama; there are, after all, rock venues throughout England. Most towns and cities of any size have at least one. But this venue, the Waterfront in Norwich, is distinctive, if not unique, in at least two respects.It was purpose-built and, more importantly, it was largely financed, not by private enterprise, but by the city's Labour council. Norw…
Popular music and the state in the UK
Have I the right? Legitimacy, authenticity and community in folk's politics
In the last few years, in Britain, one of pop's cycles has turned again and folk has come back into fashion. It can be seen in the success of the Pogues, in the reformation of Fairport Convention, in the revamping of the magazine Folk Roots, in the content of Andy Kershaw's Radio One show, and perhaps most dramatically in the celebration of 'world music'. The revival of folk entails more than a revival of old names and sounds, it also contains a …
Politics Lost, Politics Transformed, Politics Colonised? Theories of the Impact of Mass Media
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the literature on the relationship between politics and mass media, mainly in discrete topic areas such as the impact of mass media on electoral behaviour, the emergence of new forms of political communication, or media political economy. At the same time, this diverse literature has often focused on a single general issue, typically characterised in terms of the ‘transformation’ of politi…
Politics and Popular Music
Journal Article Politics and Popular Music: From Policing to Packaging Get access MARTIN CLOONAN, MARTIN CLOONAN Research Fellow in Politics *University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN STREET JOHN STREET Senior Lecturer in Politics †University of East AngliaNorwich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 1997, Pa…
Playing at Politics? Popular Culture as Political Engagement
While the importance of news media to politics is widely acknowledged, it is only relatively recently that entertainment media have received similar recognition. There is now a substantial body of research on the impact of popular culture on various aspects of the political process, from political knowledge to political engagement. This article is intended as a further contribution to this literature. It reports on a study into how young people i…
The Sound of Geopolitics
In respect of its subject matter, much popular music tends to be introspective and parochial. Its focus rarely falls upon international affairs and global politics. However, there are instances when popular music does engage with wider, political issues and even affects the relations between states. This article draws attention to some of these instances, from the recent imprisonment of Pussy Riot in Russia to Live 8 in 2005. It asks how and when…
The Voice of the People? Musicians as Political Actors
This article explores the ways in which popular musicians, in particular Bob Geldof, have come to assume a central role in the campaign to alter economic and political relationships between the developed and developing worlds. It focuses on the example of Live 8, but traces this back through Make Poverty History, Jubilee 2000, and Live Aid; and it makes contrasts with another example of music’s use for political ends: Rock Against Racism. What we…
Showbusiness of a serious kind’
Recent decades have seen a marked growth in the number of arts prizes awarded annually. Not only have these prizes attracted considerable media coverage and controversy, they have also had a significant impact on cultural consumption and production, as well as on the aesthetic discourses operating within different cultural forms. This article argues that the arts prize deserves closer scrutiny than it has received so far. Taking a small number of…
Come Together
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Framing Celebrity
Remote Control? Politics, Technology and `Electronic Democracy
Recent interest in the Internet has revived the debate about `electronic democracy'. On one side, politicians and political activists talk enthusiastically about the possibility of a virtual polity in which the ideal of Ancient Greece is recreated; on the other side are those who fear for the destruction of democracy. This article begins by examining critically these competing claims. It argues that the positions adopted do not, however, do justi…
Bob, Bono and Tony B
The political rise of Jorg Haider’s Freedom Party in Austria in 2000 prompted condemnation from many Western governments and led to a temporary diplomatic boycott. But Europe and America’s elected representatives were not the only people to express their disgust at the ascendancy of the Freedom Party. Some of the most vehement protests came from the artistic community both within and outside Austria. The pianist Andras Schiff announced that he wo…
Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of ‘Consensus’ in Post-War Britain
British Government Policy on Aids
Journal Article BRITISH GOVERNMENT POLICY ON AIDS: LEARNING NOT TO DIE OF IGNORANCE Get access Street John Street John Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1988, Pages 490–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052165 Published: 01 October 1988
From entertainment to citizenship
This article investigates the extent to which young people use different forms of popular culture to express and make sense of their relationship to politics. We look closely at young people's interpretation of popular culture in order to find out whether, and if so how, it plays a political role, using focus groups and interviews with first-time voters in the UK. We adapt the theoretical framework and method used by David Buckingham in his study…
The popular, the diverse and the excellent
This article is about the political values that underpin cultural policy in the UK. In particular, it explores the politics behind the competing goals set for cultural policy and how politicians negotiate the rival appeals of promoting excellence and enabling diversity, while still claiming to represent the people. It focuses upon two important New Labour pronouncements on cultural policy, Tessa Jowell's Government and the Value of Culture and Br…
The G. R. G. Conway Collection in Cambridge University Library
Uruguay and the United Nations. Prepared under the auspices of the Uruguayan Institute of International Law for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Mexico and the United Nations
Journal Article Uruguay and the United Nations. Prepared under the auspices of the Uruguayan Institute of International Law for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Mexico and the United Nations Get access Uruguay and the United Nations. Prepared under the auspices of the Uruguayan Institute of International Law for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Preface by Joseph E. Johnson. New York, Manhattan Publishing Company, …
Latin American History
Political Change in Latin America
Journal Article Political Change in Latin America: The Emergence of the Middle Sectors Get access Political Change in Latin America: The Emergence of the Middle Sectors. By John J. Johnson. Stanford University Press, 1958; London, Oxford University Press, 1959. x+272 pp. Bibliog. Index. $5. 40s. John Street John Street Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 35, Issue 3, July 1959, Pa…
Artigas and the Emancipation of Uruguay
La intervención francesa en el Río de la Plata. Federales unitarios y románticos
The Federal Republic in Spain
Journal Article The Federal Republic in Spain: Pi y Margall and the Federal Republican Movement, 1868–74 Get access The Federal Republic in Spain: Pi y Margall and the Federal Republican Movement, 1868–74. By C. A. M. Hennessy. London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1962. 299 pp. Bibliog. Index. 45s. John Street John Street Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 1, January …
A History of Venezuela
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access JOHN STREET JOHN STREET Fitzwilliam HouseCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXI, Issue CCCXIX, April 1966, Pages 415-b–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXI.CCCXIX.415-b Published: 01 April 1966
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access JOHN STREET JOHN STREET Centre of Latin-American StudiesCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIII, Issue CCCXXVIII, July 1968, Pages 635-c–636, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIII.CCCXXVIII.635-c Published: 01 July 1968
Japanese and the other Altaic Languages
Index to the Secret History of the Mongols
Parental age and parity in dyslexic boys
The influence of parental age at birth, and parity, was studied in a series of 48 dyslexic boys. It was concluded that both increased paternal and maternal age contributes to a greater incidence of the condition. The similarity to the age distributions of chromosomal aberrations and some mutation defects suggests some genetic implication. The findings thus favour a biological rather than environmental element in the aetiology.
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Artigas, el fundador
Origins of the Japanese Language
Come Together
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Individual Transitions to Socialism
This article proceeds from the assumption that the transition to socialism must take account of individuals as they are, not as they might be. The emphasis on the individual appears to be inconsistent with the marxian basis of socialist thought. Attempts to resolve this inconsistency have led marxists to concentrate on cultural and psychological explanations of people within capitalist society. We criticise these attempts, and argue for a view of…
Red Wedge
Tarnished Gold
British Government Policy on Aids
Journal Article BRITISH GOVERNMENT POLICY ON AIDS: LEARNING NOT TO DIE OF IGNORANCE Get access Street John Street John Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 41, Issue 4, October 1988, Pages 490–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052165 Published: 01 October 1988
Have I the right? Legitimacy, authenticity and community in folk's politics
In the last few years, in Britain, one of pop's cycles has turned again and folk has come back into fashion. It can be seen in the success of the Pogues, in the reformation of Fairport Convention, in the revamping of the magazine Folk Roots, in the content of Andy Kershaw's Radio One show, and perhaps most dramatically in the celebration of 'world music'. The revival of folk entails more than a revival of old names and sounds, it also contains a …
Facing the Music
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Aids
Aids in Industrialized Democracies
In the ten years since the first cases of AIDS were reported, the disease has spread around the world. Every country has had to come up with policies suited to its own conditions, economy, culture, and institutions. The differences among their approaches are striking. This volume, the first international comprehensive comparison of responses to AIDS, is a unique guide to the world's most urgent public health crisis. Sixteen leading experts in pub…
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