Idolized - Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Meizel is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung How a TV show changed the way we hear America singing Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: No Boundaries 1. Facing Reality: American Idol as Reality Television 2. Facing the Music 3. Win or Lose: Success and Failure and the American Dream 4. Idol Worship: Civil and Sacral Religion in American Idol 5. Going Places 6. Politics as Usual 7. The United Nations of Pop: Global Franchise and Geopolitics Epilogue: Crystallized Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Meizel, Katherine L. Meizel
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2011
• EAN: 9780253222718
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22271-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Indiana University Press; Ethnomusicology Multimedia
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet