Home-Schooling in David Makes Man

This essay explores the logic of capitalism that shapes the experiences of a precarious Black Miami teen in the OWN television series David Makes Man. Analyzing seven episodes of the first season, we develop the concept of home-schooling to describe hustlin’ as a capitalist logic operating within Florida public housing and meritocracy as a capitalist logic celebrated at an elite magnet school to reveal imaginative possibilities of survival in Miami. In this essay, we engage the circuit of culture to interrogate issues of racialized-class in the television series and within a broader social context.

Memorializing Pulse

Since 2016, the city of Orlando, FL, has remembered the Pulse nightclub massacre through memorial projects honoring the victims and survivors. The process of remembering and memorializing trauma is contentious; debates over how, where, who, and what to remember are about emotions, economics, and politics. Knowing that meaning making and memory are ongoing processes, I use the circuit of culture model to navigate my city’s processes and places of memorializing by visiting and interpreting different sites of memory. I argue for the power of the vernacular memorial, rather than the state-sanctioned, as a more inclusive, living form of memory.

Black and Blue

This mystory explores alienation in a law enforcement family and anti-racist allyship after the 2012 murder of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Situated within key circuit of culture moments of identity and representation, I use the popular song “What It Means” by Drive-By Truckers (2016) and my personal experience to address whiteness. Colorblindness and fragility are twin components of whiteness in post-racial America that animate alienation and allyship. Both embodied analyses of pop culture and personal experience describe white identity and white privilege at the interpersonal and intercultural level.

Guest Editor’s Introduction

Florida is a site of critical inquiry and figures prominently in the US American imaginary. The Sunshine State sets the stage for broader conversations about cultural difference, climate change, and participatory democracy. Contributors to this special issue apply the canonical circuit of culture model to address the interrelated nature of culture and power. They provide methodologically thick, fleshy interpretive analyses that privilege experiential, experimental, and embodied approaches to take seriously Florida cultural politics, people, and popular forms.

THE EMERGENCE OF LOCAL COFFEE SHOPS IN INDONESIA AS A COUNTER TO AMERICAN CULTURE HEGEMONY

After winning World War II, the United States (US) tried to spread its hegemony in almost all aspects, including culture. Starbucks has become the biggest MNC belong to the US that spreads western culture in Indonesia. Starbucks, with its 326 outlets in Indonesia, has brought its new value to Indonesian society. In this paper, the writer would like to analyze the response of Indonesians in dealing with the cultural hegemony that Starbucks brings as the representation of the American culture. This paper uses library research as the data collection method and qualitative method in analyzing the data. The writer analyzes this case by applying the circuit of culture theory, which consists of 5 aspects: production, consumption, regulation, representation, and identity. The writer will focus on how local coffee shops adopt the management and production process from Starbucks applied in their coffee shops. The creativity of Indonesians has made new cultures are quickly adopted. The advent of Starbucks in Indonesia had stimulated the establishment of local coffee shops that are not less competitive with Starbucks as the giant coffee shop corporation. The local coffee shops can give a unique experience in enjoying a coffee just like Starbucks with its “Starbucks Experience”. The local coffee shops also can provide not only coffee, but also other products that might take the interest of customers. The local coffee shops are able to imitate, and modify Starbucks concept in local versions.Keywords: Starbucks; circuit of culture; production; local coffee; coffee culture

Theatre Excursion: Circuit of Culture of Production and Consumption of Traditional Theatre

This paper is aimed at studying the production and consumption of traditional theatre. The study is conducted within cultural studies perspective using Circuit of Culture. In the production layer the focus of the analysis will be on how the traditional theatre is produced either technically or culturally. While on the consumption, the analysis will be on the audience involving in this cultural product. The object of the study is the traditional theatre performed in Rumentang Siang Bandung. The study reveals that the practice of theatre excursion perpetuates production of traditional theatre and presents the consumption space for the audience of traditional theatre. The herds of school students organized by their teachers are having theatre excursion under the program of Taman Budaya to arouse appreciation toward tradition. The circuit of culture of traditional theatre in the context of production and consumption is articulated through the theatre excursion

REPRESENTASI KEISLAMAN DALAM GRUP MUSIK SABYAN GAMBUS

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menjelaskan representasi keislaman dalam kelompok musik Sabyan Gambus. Penelitian ini membahas bagaimana Islam direpresentasikan oleh Sabyan Gambus menggunakan teori Sirkuit Kebudayaan (Circuit of Culture) Stuart Hall. Teori tersebut terdiri dari beberapa aspek, yaitu produksi, konsumsi, regulasi, identitas, dan representasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dalam menjelasakan fenomena kebudayaan. Sebagai data, penelitian ini menggunakan video-video performance Sabyan Gambus di Youtube. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kehadiran Sabyan Gambus di Youtube menandai pergeseran penting dari media yang dipakai budaya pop Islam untuk berproduksi. Kemudian, identitas keislaman Sabyan Gambus dapat dilihat melalui sejarah musik gambus di Indonesia, performativitas mereka dan estetika musik mereka. Sabyan juga menunjukkan bahwa identitas Islam yang melekat mengalami tarik menarik dengan konteks sosio-budaya Indonesia.

Circuit of Culture: Advocating Suicide Prevention and Eradication of Mental Illness Associated Stigma through ‘Into The Light Indonesia’ Campaign

<p>Into the Light Indonesia is one of the most known communities that concerns about suicide intervention and the eradication stigma associated with mental illness in Indonesia. This research was analysing how Into the Light Indonesia is circulated and consumed by Indonesian through various media platforms especially social media. Circuit of culture is applied in this research in order to dig the understanding of how the meaning produced in this campaign is circulated and consumed by its audiences. There are still many people who are still not aware regarding this issues. The development of technology makes people easily receive and finding information in simple touch on their hands. Into the Light Indonesia brought this issues and successfully gained attention from its audiences by reaching 6,000 likes, 3,000 followers, published articles and invited to national and international talk shows. Into the Light Indonesia builds relationship with other communities that have the similar concerns relating to mental health. This research is applying cultural approach as the method to analyse based on each moment in the circuit of culture. This research will contribute to the literature journal of international public relation and practical significance in the related field.</p>