Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video (New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media)

In 2007, an unlikely troupe of 1,500 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. By connecting historical discussions on postcolonialism, surveillance and prison philosophy with contemporary scholarship on popular music, participatory culture and new media, Dangerous Mediations asks critical questions about the politics of pop music and audiovisual mediation in early 21st-century detention centres--Page [4] of cover.

• | Author: ÁIne Mangaoang, Carol Vernallis
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: February 25, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501378384
• | ISBN-13: 9781501378386