caa a22 4500 465756182 CHVBK 20180323111847.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01384965 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01384965 Howes David aut "We are the world” and its counterparts: Popular song as constitutional discourse [Elektronische Daten] [David Howes] Conclusion: I have attempted to show what kinds of insights can accrue from taking a constitutional approach to the analysis of popular culture, and a cultural approach to the analysis of the wording and interpretation of constitutions. The result is a more cultured appreciation of the work of constitutional interpretation, and a heightened awareness of how a constitution, which is primarily a mode for the production of legislation, can also be said to inform "production” in other domains as well. One very significant respect in which the present analysis differs from other analyses of popular culture is that rather than analyzing the texts as "unconscious articulations of class conflict and domination,” in Jon Cook's words, I have examined them for their legality. The advantage of this approach is that it does seem to have allowed for a finer reading of the texts than class analysis would permit, because constitutions differ in ways that class structures do not and thus provide a finer grid. In short, constitutions deserve far more consideration than they have received in cultural studies, just as constitutional studies could do with a lot more culture. Human Sciences Press, 1990 International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 3/3(1990-03-01), 315-339 0891-4486 3:3<315 1990 3 10767 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01384965 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01384965 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Howes David aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 3/3(1990-03-01), 315-339 0891-4486 3:3<315 1990 3 10767 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer