Dangerous Mediations : Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video (9781501378386)

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, Aine 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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 13.46mm | 344.73g
• Publication date 25 Feb 2021
• Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 30 bw illus
• ISBN10 1501378384
• ISBN13 9781501378386

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