Old Town Road x Ghost Town

• The culture of the Black Atlantic is a result of the slave trade and the diaspora that attended it, both Old Town Road and Ghost Town offer the problematic of 'indigenous' cultures and double consciousness,
• The settings are both quite traditional in quite different ways with particular national flavours and cultural discourses, Ghost Town offers social realism and working class disadvantage in a riot anxious Britain in the early 80's conjured for us by a mix of Ska, Punk and 2 Tone
• Old Town Road offers the juxtaposition of contemporary (and visually segregated) urban America overwritten by Country Music and one of its biggest stars Billy Ray Cyrus, there is also the significant Western reference to Cowboys and native American Indians.
• In each case of Old Town Road and Ghost Town it is very clear to see the cultural penetration, the restorative and innovative influence of the Caribbean and Neville Staple's gassing prefiguring the Rap and HipHop that has conquered the whole global musical idiom, even if Country cannot stand against its infectious drive.
• intertextual reference to 'The Good The Bad and The Ugly'- The whip pan shots and names of characters next to them