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Social Voices
Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly
Sills
Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand
at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S.
Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a
political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide
range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma
Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa
Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of
race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed
by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between
narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between
privileged and marginalized identities; singers' ability to adapt
to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in
order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a
singer's life and art build on one another; and technology's
ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music.
Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how
singers and their songs equip us to process social change and
divergent opinions.
Contributors: Christina D. Abreu, Michael K.
Bourdaghs, Kwame Dawes, Nancy Guy, Ruth Hellier, John Lie, Treva B.
Lindsey, Eric Lott, Katherine Meizel, Carol A. Muller, Natalie
Sarrazin, Anthony Seeger, Carol Silverman, Andrew Simon, Jeff Todd
Titon, and Elijah Wald
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A Singing Citizenry: Popular Music and Civil Religion in America
American popular music, politics, and religion have all, in some combination, inspired thorough research. However, there has been little investigative effort regarding the important co-relationships among the three areas. One convenient site for such study is located in the idea of civil religion, where faith and patriotism convergeas Robert Bellah wrote in 1967-in a cultural network of \"beliefs, symbols, and rituals.\" This essay offers a contextual examination of two popular patriotic songs in relation to the dynamic state of civil religion from World War II to the Iraq War, from Tin Pan Alley to American Idol. Behind the endurance of songs like \"God Bless America\" and \"God Bless the U.S.A.\" lies a relentless need to define Americanness in civil-religious terms. And as the nation, and the nation-state, are reshaped in the currents of globalization, appreciation of these songs contributes to the crucial understanding of why America sings.
Journal Article
Idolized : music, media, and identity in American idol
The hit television program American Idol provides a stage where the
politics of national, regional, ethnic, and religious identity are performed for
millions of viewers. Diversity is carefully highlighted and coached into a viable
commodity by judges, argues Katherine Meizel, with contestants packaged into
familiar portraits of American identities. Consumer choice, as expressed by audience
voting, also shapes the course of the show -- negotiating ideas of democracy and
opportunity closely associated with the American Dream. Through interviews with
audience members and participants, and careful analyses of television broadcasts,
commercial recordings, and print and online media, Meizel demonstrates that
commercial music and the music industry are not simply forces to be criticized or
resisted, but critical sites for redefining American culture.
eBook
Ya Toyour
Toward the end of 2013, a series of headlines swept across the global internet, proclaiming “All-American Singer Jennifer Grout May Win Arabs Got Talent” (Jamjoom 2013), “One of the Finalists of ‘Arabs Got Talent’ Is a White Woman from Boston” (John 2013), “Move Over, Susan Boyle: Boston Irish Girl Jennifer Grout Is the Unexpected Star of ‘Arabs Got Talent’” (Pizzi 2013), and from Italy, the somewhat colonially troubling “Jennifer Grout, l’Americana che ha Conquistato la Musica Araba” [“Jennifer Grout, the American Who Has Conquered Arab Music”] (Molinari 2013). Arabs Got Talent is part of a global reality TV competition franchise
Book Chapter
Ya Toyour
This chapter examines the Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng (Deng Lijun, 1953–1995) within the context of Japan’s Cold War. Enormously popular in Japan and East Asia during the 1970s and 80s, Teng’s career negotiated a number of tricky Cold War tensions, including the afterlife of the Japanese empire, the Beijing/Taipei rivalry for hegemony in the region, and the emergence of new patterns of cross-regional media culture. The chapter explores ways her music and image spoke to the widespread desire among Japanese audiences for a nonaligned Japan, arguing that “multiple, often contradictory, desires could be projected” onto the singer, offering a discursive site where popular reactions to and interpretations of Teng could help Japanese audiences negotiate the nation’s post-World War II identity in Asia and globally.
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