Hearing girls, girls, girls on the 2016 campaign trail

Gorzelany-Mostak, Dana

doi:10.1111/jpms.12235

“…Audiences see lip syncing as forms of deception and fakery. 350 From Milli Vanilli returning their Grammy Award after allegations of lip syncing were confirmed true 351 to Post Malone being criticized by both news outlets 352 and fans 353 for lip syncing at an award show, lip synced performances often result in scandals wherein the artistry of the individual is debated. 354 Even within Korean and Japanese pop music cultures which are hinged on spectacle-like performances that feature highly skilled dance performances alongside the vocal performances, audiences expect that the songs are sung live without the additional mediation of further technology than those already used in performances.…”

Section: Performers and Technologymentioning

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Interrogating Authenticity: Understanding East Asian Female Pop Music in the Western Cultural Sphere

Ng Man Chuen

2024

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<p>This thesis explores the connection between East Asian female pop music artists and inauthenticity in Anglo-Western popular culture. It embarks on a two-step mixed method analysis to provide both breadth and depth to this research project, analyzing songs and music videos through a content analysis and critical discourse analysis. Specifically, it foregrounds the understanding of these artists as inauthentic against a broad tradition of authenticity in Western art and specifically in Western music to understand how these artists are perceived to be inauthentic. Focusing on a contemporary period, it explores how popular music interacts with the Western cultural imagination, interrogating how racial and gender dynamics contribute to understandings of authenticity. Also integral to this study is a consideration of technology and how technological developments have had an impact on understandings of art.</p>

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“…Audiences see lip syncing as forms of deception and fakery. 350 From Milli Vanilli returning their Grammy Award after allegations of lip syncing were confirmed true 351 to Post Malone being criticized by both news outlets 352 and fans 353 for lip syncing at an award show, lip synced performances often result in scandals wherein the artistry of the individual is debated. 354 Even within Korean and Japanese pop music cultures which are hinged on spectacle-like performances that feature highly skilled dance performances alongside the vocal performances, audiences expect that the songs are sung live without the additional mediation of further technology than those already used in performances.…”

Section: Performers and Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Interrogating Authenticity: Understanding East Asian Female Pop Music in the Western Cultural Sphere

Ng Man Chuen

2024

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0

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<p>This thesis explores the connection between East Asian female pop music artists and inauthenticity in Anglo-Western popular culture. It embarks on a two-step mixed method analysis to provide both breadth and depth to this research project, analyzing songs and music videos through a content analysis and critical discourse analysis. Specifically, it foregrounds the understanding of these artists as inauthentic against a broad tradition of authenticity in Western art and specifically in Western music to understand how these artists are perceived to be inauthentic. Focusing on a contemporary period, it explores how popular music interacts with the Western cultural imagination, interrogating how racial and gender dynamics contribute to understandings of authenticity. Also integral to this study is a consideration of technology and how technological developments have had an impact on understandings of art.</p>

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From the Girl to the World: Good Girls as Political Endorsers and Agents of Change

Biressi

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2018

Communication, Culture and Critique

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This article explores the ways in which "good girls" have been drawn into political discourse since the 1990s and how they are figured as political endorsers and as agents of change. Girls are increasingly addressed as active subjects and future citizens. In a postfeminist context they are regarded as entrepreneurial and self-motivated; constructed as pioneers of progress through protocols activating the "feminisation of responsibility". Girls are also increasingly prominent as advocates of social reform through their own deployment of social media. It seems then that girls are, in many ways, central to the political scene. Through an examination of good girl figures including Jackie Evancho and Malala Yousafzai this article explores how politicians and political discourse work to harness the voices of girls, to co-opt their youthful promise and to extract symbolic capital from association with them. The overall argument is that girls' assumed future success becomes (mis)represented in political discourse as evidence of progress which is always achievable and soon to be attained by all.

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Hearing girls, girls, girls on the 2016 campaign trail

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Interrogating Authenticity: Understanding East Asian Female Pop Music in the Western Cultural Sphere

Interrogating Authenticity: Understanding East Asian Female Pop Music in the Western Cultural Sphere

Interrogating Authenticity: Understanding East Asian Female Pop Music in the Western Cultural Sphere

From the Girl to the World: Good Girls as Political Endorsers and Agents of Change

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