Showing posts with label Mike Oldfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Oldfield. Show all posts

Friday, 24 February 2017

MIKE OLDFIELD'S "PORTSMOUTH" AND IMPLICIT WHITENESS

A while ago, I wrote an article on the original 1973 version of The Wicker Man and the film's implicit whiteness in its distinctly European aesthetics, themes and morality. I am now going to give the same treatment to Mike Oldfield's 1976 arrangement of and accompanying video to the English folk tune "Portsmouth", as it serves as a great lesson in symbolism and aesthetics and how they relate to audience reception.

 

 
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