TY - BOOK ID - 135700912 TI - From entertainment to citizenship : Politics and popular culture AU - Street, John AU - Scott, Martin AU - Inthorn, Sanna PY - 2016 SN - 152610296X 1781706123 1526102951 9781781706121 9781526102959 9780719085383 0719085381 9781784993955 1784993956 PB - Manchester : Baltimore, Md. : Manchester University Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - Celebrity politicians. KW - Citizenship. KW - Entertainment television. KW - Political engagement. KW - Politics. KW - Popular culture. KW - Popular music. KW - Video games. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135700912 AB - From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them. 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. This book provides the evidence and analysis that ER -