Dangerous mediations : pop music in a Philippine prison video / Áine Mangaoang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mangaoang, Áine, author.

Series:

New approaches to sound, music, and media.

New approaches to sound, music, and media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music in prisons--Philippines.

Music in prisons.

Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Centre.

Music videos--Moral and ethical aspects.

Music videos.

Popular music--Moral and ethical aspects.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Other Title:

Pop music in a Philippine prison video

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2019.

Summary:

"In 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Interlude 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.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 27, 2020)

ISBN:

9781501331558

1501331558

9781501331565

1501331566

9781501331541

150133154X

OCLC:

1090283216