The Art of Populism in US Politics

Pro-Trump DIY Popular Culture

Justin Patch (Vassar College, USA)

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Routledge
26 August 2024

Social & political philosophy; Popular culture; Nationalism; Political structure & processes; Political campaigning & advertising

Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

The Art of Populism in US Politics investigates connections between populist politics and artistic expressions in the United States in the Trump era.

Beginning with comparisons between frontier populism and millennial-era populism, the author examines how citizens imitate and improvise on political sentiments, global histories, images, and discourses to create their own senses of community, identity, belonging, and exclusion. Political art, narratives, opinions, polemics, and abstract artistic expressions are shared instantly, creating new political and affective communities that challenge the power and stability of previous institutions and ideologies. These modes of digital sharing create communities of practice, groups who come together through shared creation and consumption, whether it be memes and vlogs, homemade signs and T-shirts, music videos, or political dialogues. The book analyzes the physical and digital art practices that support the growth and proliferation of populist politics and the fractious communities in America that support it. With modular chapters providing in-depth case studies within the larger context of populism, this book provides alternate methodologies for working through key issues of politics, production, distribution, globalization, and political economy, particularly because of the ways in which different forms of media—art, video, text, music—are brought into productive dialogue with each other.

This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students of political science, cultural studies, music studies, American studies, and art and media studies.

By: Justin Patch (Vassar College USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032341903
ISBN 10: 1032341904
Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Preface: Looking at Populism with Compassion 1. Waving Populist Flags on January 6th 2. Introduction: Art and Millennial Populism 3. Art, and the Political Economy of the DIY Aesthetic 4. Populist Art and Expressionism: A Dialogue 5. Parody, Appropriation, and Editing for Affect 6. Trump in Monumental and Miniature 7. Nu Metal: The Genre That Predicted the Future, or “Is Donald Trump the Nu Metal President?” Conclusion: Attending to Populism’s Creativity Bibliography

Justin Patch is Assistant Professor of Music at Vassar College, USA. His research focuses on music in American politics, sound studies, and music of the African diaspora. He is the author of Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism and the Presidential Campaign (2019, Routledge).