Abstract
Duran Duran have, thus far, been relatively under-represented in popular music scholarship. Recently, however, Stratton (2022) has considered the band’s imagery in the context of the New Romantic movement, and Zaleski (2022) offers an insightful discussion of the band’s album Rio (1982) as a pivotal, era-defining work. That these discussions have emerged confirms Duran Duran’s entry into scholarly conversation, and that the band’s music and aesthetics invite textual engagement. This chapter, as a further intervention, builds upon Stratton’s and Zaleski’s contributions. In doing so, it explores Duran Duran’s sonic and visual world as a recognizable 'time-space', while drawing upon Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of the chronotope and Wolf’s (2013) exploration of imaginary and transmedial 'worlds'.