Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism, and the Presidential Campaign

by Justin Patch

Discordant Democracy: Noise, Affect, Populism, and the Presidential Campaign paints a portrait of the political experience at a pivotal time in American political and social history. The modern political campaign is aestheticized and assimilated into mass culture, divorced from fact and policy, and nakedly tethered to emotional appeal. Through a multi-modal comparative examination of the sonic and emotional cultures of the 2008 and 2016 campaigns,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138088757
• ISBN13: 9781138088757
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"