Keywords
symbolic memory, Civil War
Abstract
One hundred and fifty years after Appomattox, the iconographic remains of America’s Civil War are still contested symbolic artifacts. Case in point: at the writing of this paper a state bill sat on California Governor Jerry Brown’s desk which would ban the sale of the Confederate flag or any merchandise with Confederate flag imagery on state property. Thus California has become the most recent battleground of the war between the states, or to word it in more precise language, California legislators have entered the debate over who controls a flag’s meaning and memory.
Original Publication Citation
“New Slaves: Kanye West, Brad Paisley, and Confederate Flag Discourse in Contemporary Popular Music and Visual Culture,” Raven: A Journal of Vexillology, Vol. 22, 2016
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Hartvigsen, Kenneth, "New Slaves: Kanye West, Brad Paisley, and Contemporary Confederate-Flag Discourse in Popular Music Iconography" (2015). Faculty Publications. 9531.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9531
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Raven: A Journal of Vexillology
Language
English
College
Marriott School of Business
Department
Information Systems Management
Copyright Status
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