Dangerous Mediations

Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video

AvÁine Mangaoang,Carol Vernallis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Winner of The Woody Guthrie First Book Award 2021In 2007, an unlikely troupe of 1500 Filipino prisoners became Internet celebrities after their YouTube video of Michael Jackson’s ground-breaking hit 'Thriller' went viral. Taking this spectacular dance as a point of departure, Dangerous Mediations explores the disquieting development of prisoners performing punishment to a global, online audience. Combining analysis of this YouTube video with first-hand experiences from fieldwork in the Philippine prison, Áine Mangaoang investigates a wide range of interlocking contexts surrounding this user-generated text to reveal how places of punishment can be transformed into spaces of spectacular entertainment, leisure, and penal tourism.In the post-YouTube era, Dangerous Mediations sounds the call for close readings of music videos produced outside of the corporate culture industries. By connecting historical discussions on postcolonialism, surveillance and prison philosophy with contemporary scholarship on popular music, participatory culture and new media, Dangerous Mediations is the first book to ask critical questions about the politics of pop music and audiovisual mediation in early 21st-century detention centres.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-22
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:513 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501331534
Utmärkelser:Winner of Woody Guthrie Award 2021 (United States)

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Populärmusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Áine Mangaoang is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Popular Music at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Recensioner i media

In this rich ethnographic case study, Áine Mangaoang brings together a welcome, provocative and highly original mix of music, YouTube and prison. She raises thoughtful questions about participation and incarceration, leisure and exploitation, the global and the local, that will resonate far beyond her case.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgments IntroductionInterlude I: ‘The Evil of the Thriller’ Chapter 1: Seeing Sound: Locating Music and YouTube’s Symbiosis Interlude II: ‘You’re Fighting for your Life inside a Killer, Thriller’ Chapter 2: Performing Postcolonialism: Filipino History Through Four-Part Harmony Interlude III: Fade to Black Chapter 3: Penal Tourists: The Birth of CPDRC’s Prison Pop Programme Interlude IV: ‘Music, the Language of the Soul’ Chapter 4: Beats Behind Bars: Music, Docile Bodies, and the Digital Panopticon Interlude V: Michael Jackson, the Undead, and the Posthumous Duet Chapter 5: Thrilling: Remediating Thriller Interlude VI: ‘It’s More Fun in the Philippines’ Chapter 6: ‘Together in Electric Dreams’: Hybridity, Nostalgia, and Imagination in CPDRC Interlude VII: ‘Thank you for the Music’ Chapter 7: YouTube’s Penal Spectators Coda: Dangerous Mediations, Prisoners of Love, and Other Considerations Appendix Abbreviations and Glossary Notes References Index