Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.116
Jabari Evans
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.66
Simone Pereira de Sá, Juliana Freire Gutmann, Simone Evangelista
This study discusses modes of appropriation of television genres for the constitution of new audiovisual dynamics in a digital context, based on performatic strategies of the Brazilian funk singer Pepita, who is known for her LGBTQ+ activism. Based on a methodology that articulates studies about media genres and performance, we try to understand how television conventions and characteristics of YouTube and Instagram are appropriated for the constitution of what we call performances of empowerment. We conclude that Pepita’s movements exemplify a broader phenomenon, associated to a complex articulation between audiovisual materialities and digital platforms, and to confluences between genre conventions and their transformations.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.15
M. Petty, J. Chambers-Letson
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.6
Brittnay L. Proctor
Research Article| June 01 2023 Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden Brittnay L. Proctor, PhD Brittnay L. Proctor, PhD School of Media Studies, The New School Brittnay L. Proctor is a Mellon post-doctoral fellow/assistant professor of race and media in the School of Media Studies at The New School. Her research interests include black studies; black popular music, black feminist theory, sound studies, visual culture, and performance. Her work has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, American Literature, Sounding Out!, Feminist Formations, Hyped on Melancholy, African American Review, Reviews in Digital Humanities, and ASAP/Journal. She is the author of Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series). She is also working on a second book manuscript, which draws on LP records and Compact Discs to trace the sonic and visual discourses of gender and sexuality in funk music. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 6–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.6 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brittnay L. Proctor; Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 6–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.6 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search If the garden can be used as a metaphor for Black women’s creativity and self-preservation, Minnie Riperton’s sonic garden reminds us that black womanhood is not merely self-evident but produced through praxis engendered by creating, cultivating, and tending, in this instance, to one’s garden. We might consider how Riperton’s vocal performance of the place of the garden and its figurative use throughout the album pose an antagonism to genre: both as a technique for taxonomizing black music and the codification of gender as the collapse between sex as biology and gender (the production of gender dimorphism as the discrete categories of “man” and “woman”). Against “genre” and toward the place of the garden, the black avant-garde tenets of Come to My Garden are rooted in Riperton’s blurring of Charles Stepney’s “written” composition and her own improvisational ad libs. The “phonic substance” of her vocal performance becomes a “visual manifestation” of... You do not currently have access to this content.
研究文章| 2023年6月1日Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden布列特尼·l·普罗克特,博士布列特尼·l·普罗克特,博士媒体研究学院,新学院布列特尼·l·普罗克特是梅隆大学新学院媒体研究学院的博士后研究员/种族和媒体助理教授。她的研究兴趣包括黑人研究;黑人流行音乐、黑人女权主义理论、声音研究、视觉文化和表演。她的作品发表在《流行音乐研究杂志》、《流行文化杂志》、《美国文学》、《发声!》《女性主义的形成》、《忧郁的炒作》、《非裔美国人评论》、《数字人文评论》和《ASAP/Journal》。她是米妮·里珀顿的《来我的花园》(布卢姆斯伯里出版社:33 1/3系列)的作者。她还在写第二本书的手稿,这本书利用LP唱片和cd来追踪放克音乐中性别和性的声音和视觉话语。搜索作者的其他作品:本网站PubMed谷歌学者流行音乐研究杂志(2023)35(2):6-9。https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.6查看图标查看文章内容图表和表格视频音频补充数据同行评审分享图标分享Facebook Twitter LinkedIn电子邮件工具图标工具获得许可引用图标引用搜索网站引文Brittnay L. Proctor;米妮·里珀顿的《来我的花园》《流行音乐研究杂志》2023年6月1日;35(2): 6-9。doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.6下载引文文件:Ris (Zotero)参考资料经理EasyBib Bookends Mendeley论文EndNote RefWorks BibTex工具栏搜索搜索下拉菜单工具栏搜索搜索输入搜索输入自动建议过滤你的搜索所有内容流行音乐研究杂志搜索如果花园可以作为黑人女性创造力和自我保护的隐喻,Minnie Riperton的声音花园提醒我们黑人女性不仅仅是不言而喻的,而是通过创造,培养,在这种情况下,照料自己的花园。我们可以考虑里珀顿对花园地点的声乐表演及其在整张专辑中的形象运用是如何对流派构成对抗的:既是一种对黑人音乐进行分类的技术,也是一种对性别的编纂,即作为生物的性和性别之间的崩溃(作为“男人”和“女人”的离散类别的性别二态性的产生)。《来到我的花园》的黑人先锋派原则反对“流派”,倾向于花园的位置,根植于里珀顿对查尔斯·斯蒂芬妮(Charles Stepney)“书面”作曲和她自己即兴创作的模糊。她的声乐表演的“音质”变成了……的“视觉表现”。您目前没有访问此内容的权限。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.145
Other| March 01 2023 Contributors’ Notes Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 145–146. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.145 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Contributors’ Notes. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 145–146. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.145 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search Carlos Garrido Castellano is a lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at University College Cork, where he coordinates a BA program on Portuguese studies and the MA in Global Languages and Cultures. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (2022). He has recently edited two special issues on anticolonial and decolonial aesthetics (one in Third Text in 2020 and another in Interventions Journal in 2022) as well as a volume on contemporary museums and coloniality in the Iberian context (2022). Sarah Dougher is a writer, educator, and musician from Portland, Oregon. Her current work as a professor at Portland State focuses on strengthening the pathways for high school seniors into higher education, especially immigrant, first-generation and other historically excluded students.... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.1
Editorial| March 01 2023 Editors’ Note Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Editors’ Note. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 1–3. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search We would like to kick off volume 35 of this journal with a warm welcome to the newest associate editor of our “Field Notes” section, Jonathan J. Leal. Jonathan joins us from the University of Southern California, where he is assistant professor of English. In addition to his scholarship on bebop and post-war experimental popular music, Jonathan brings years of experience as a professional musician, producer, sound designer, and public writer. He has already brought us some great ideas, and we look forward to working with him. Jonathan’s arrival comes as John Vilanova finishes his tenure as an associate editor with the journal. Thank you, John, for all of your hard work! As we write this editors’ note, the United States is in the midst of a midterm election. And coincidentally, that backdrop of political consequences has shaped many of the articles in this issue. This issue opens with a... You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.20
Carlos Garrido Castellano, J. Rollefson
On June 16, 2018, Beyoncé and Jay-Z released “Apeshit”—a trap-styled hip hop track featuring a chorus of “I can’t believe we made it / Have you ever seen the crowd going apeshit?” The much-commented-on music video for the track was framed as a hip hop takeover of the world’s most visited museum—Paris’s Louvre—featuring pop’s reigning power couple, marketed as “The Carters,” making themselves at home with a collection of dancers in flesh-colored black, brown, and beige bodysuits. While the video was generally received through the split-screen frame of either a cutting decolonial takedown of this monument to Western civilization or the ultimate in money-flaunting bling spectacle, a more subtle and complex set of issues is at play. This article examines the deep historical ambivalences at play in this pop cultural artifact. Employing multi-modal methodologies that combine visual and musical arts perspectives articulated via the frames of postcolonial studies, this analysis theorizes the cultural “traps” in effect. Ranging from the track’s “trap” sonic production and lyrical rhetoric of escape (“we made it”), to the historical trap of musealized colonial plunder and the Louvre’s labyrinthine, oft-subterranean floor plan, to the “trappings” of consumption, bourgeois self-making, and aesthetic contemplation, we seek to illustrate how this socio-cultural text destabilizes Enlightenment universalism and its public/private split.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.109
C. Wells
In the late 1990s, the Word Wrestling Federation (WWF) reached the height of its global popularity thanks to its “Attitude” re-branding. From 1997 to 2001, the company targeted an audience of teenagers and 18- to 34-year-old men with programming emphasizing adult themes and rebellious anti-heroes. The company’s most popular character at the time was “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, a beer-drinking Texas “redneck” who refused to conform and feuded on screen with a villainous corporate CEO. His iconic entrance music, “Hell Frozen Over,” was closely modeled on Rage Against the Machine’s 1996 hit song “Bulls on Parade” and played a crucial role in establishing the character’s credentials as a blue collar rebel whose actions channeled the desires of the WWF’s core audience of young white men. Highlighting both the specific idiomatic conventions of professional wrestling entrance themes and the numerous similarities between “Bulls on Parade” and Austin’s entrance music, this article argues that Austin’s music leveraged sonic tropes of masculine anti-corporate rebellion that were legible as such in the late 1990s due largely to the soundscapes of rage popularized by RATM and the numerous rap-rock “nü metal” bands they inspired. It shows how Austin’s music and its RATM connection exemplify not only the capacity for popular entertainment to commodify rebellion, but also the agency of audiences in forging meaningful personal and interpersonal relationships with and through mass-mediated entertainment as sonic signifiers become disentangled from specific political movements and made available to a broad range of economic and political projects.
在20世纪90年代末,世界摔跤联合会(WWF)由于其“态度”品牌重塑而达到了全球知名度的顶峰。从1997年到2001年,该公司以青少年和18至34岁的男性为目标受众,制作了强调成人主题和叛逆的反英雄的节目。该公司当时最受欢迎的角色是“石头冷”史蒂夫·奥斯汀,一个爱喝啤酒的德克萨斯“乡巴佬”,他拒绝顺从,在银幕上与一个邪恶的公司首席执行官不和。他的标志性入场音乐《地狱冰封》(Hell Frozen Over)与Rage Against the Machine 1996年的热门歌曲《公牛游行》(Bulls on Parade)非常相似,并在塑造这个角色作为蓝领反叛者的形象方面发挥了至关重要的作用,他的行为迎合了世界自然基金会年轻白人核心观众的欲望。本文强调了职业摔跤入门主题的特定习惯惯例以及“公牛游行”与奥斯汀入门音乐之间的许多相似之处,认为奥斯汀的音乐利用了男性反公司反叛的声音修辞,这在20世纪90年代后期是显而易见的,主要是因为RATM和他们启发的众多说唱摇滚“nü金属”乐队推广了愤怒的音境。它展示了奥斯汀的音乐及其与RATM的联系不仅体现了大众娱乐将反叛商品化的能力,而且还体现了观众通过大众媒介娱乐建立有意义的个人和人际关系的代理,因为声音符号从特定的政治运动中解脱出来,并可用于广泛的经济和政治项目。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.136
Kellie D. Hay
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.46
Wonseok Lee, Grace Y. Kao
We analyze four online concerts by K-pop group BTS (Bangtan Sonyeondan) during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 to the present) from the view of participant observation. The pandemic served as a catalyst for the evolution of these concerts. BTS set new records for revenue generated by a single online concert in June 2020, only to beat their own record in October 2020, and again in June 2021. While BTS delivered high-quality online concerts to its fans, known as ARMY, these concerts highlighted the challenges to both audience members and performers despite the use of “virtual reality” technologies. We argue that BTS’s online concerts represent a new type of concert production and consumption that expands the accessibility of performances to fans all over the world, and also enabled new forms of interactions between artists and audience members. However, these concerts inadvertently highlighted the importance of in-person interaction between fans and performers as K-pop relies heavily not only on cheering and banners that support artists, but also on light sticks, fan chants, and other activities.
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