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Dangerous mediations : pop music in a Philippine prison video /

"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 devel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mangaoang, Áine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Series:New approaches to sound, music, and media.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.