Abstract

This article examines the representation of pirate radio and sonic borderscapes in Richard Curtis’s film The Boat That Rocked (UK, 2009), a comedy set in the heyday of offshore pirate radio operating beyond national borders in the 1960s. The article applies the critical concept of the borderscape, this is, a space where different border-related phenomena emerge, to show how established narratives of nation and community are challenged from the margins by using the image of pirate radio as a maker of new border-crossing sounds that transform established ideas of community and belonging.

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