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Journal Article
Perfect Covers: Filipino Musical Mimicry and Transmedia Performance
2017
Overview
In this essay, the author connects the stereotype of Filipinos as musical mimics to the Philippines's history of colonization by Spain and the United States and argues that in the twenty-first century, Filipino performers are successfully using the Internet to transmediate their imitative skills to the global marketplace. Filipino singers have been periodically discovered and hired by U.S. producers through their YouTube “auditions,” which showed them to be “perfect covers,” that is, artists who can re-perform American popular songs extremely well. The author argues that the international success of Filipino cover artists has helped to raise worldwide awareness of a certain “Filipino brand”—the reputation of Filipinos as excellent mimics not only in entertainment but in call center work, nursing, and domestic labor.
