The logic of the link: The associative paradigm in communication criticism

Cali, Dennis D.

doi:10.1080/15295030009388410

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“…Among the categories of expression the two "critical rhetoricians" (p. 19) call "culture" are "architecture" and "music." Thus, for Ono and Sloop (1995, p. 20) "music" qualifies as vernacular discourse but does not rise to the level of "text," which is the privileged object of analysis for rhetoricians, as Ono and Sloop (1995, p. 19) themselves acknowledge (see also Cali, 2000;Chesebro, 1996;Cyphert, 2001;Goldzwig, 1998). By demonstrating how the chosen song-recordings work as texts, as opposed to treating them as "mere" cultural artifacts, the present undertaking has aimed to augment the efforts of those scholars who contend that the communication field must "account for the rhetoricity of forms of human communication" (Cyphert, 2001, p. 387) other than the public speech.…”

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confidence: 92%

Mass Communication and Identity Construction: Theory and a Case Study of Song-Recordings by a Popular Musician

Wolfe

Loy

Chidester

2009

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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This study examines the role of mass communication in identity construction by focusing on song-recordings written and performed by John Mellencamp, a mass communicator who has consistently identified himself with the Midwest generally and rural Indiana particularly. This research argues that Mellencamp's album, Scarecrow, may be productively grasped as (1) communication that extends a tradition expounded by such Midwesterners as Mark Twain and Grant Wood and (2) as mythology. Focusing closely on two Scarecrow tracks, this study conceptualizes mythology as a "vital contemporary creator of meaning" (Campbell, 1991, p. 335). The tracks are then analyzed by attending to those musical details of each that either reinforce or contradict its linguistic/mythic meanings. While similar analyses of popular music are not unprecedented in communication research, no prior study has attempted to integrate mythological textual analysis and musicological analysis in an effort to advance understanding about how mixes of myth and music "foster cultural identification" (Sellnow & Sellnow, 2001, p. 396). A new rhetorical category of song is proposed.

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confidence: 92%

Mass Communication and Identity Construction: Theory and a Case Study of Song-Recordings by a Popular Musician

Wolfe

Loy

Chidester

2009

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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“…Today, cultural forms are increasingly structured as decentered networks, organized side-by-side, rather than as signifying chains that unfold step-by-step (Taylor, 2001). Such juxtaposition is deliberately provocative because it privileges gaps, ruptures, and fissures, rather than continuity, and is rooted in lateral, spatial, and associational thinking, rather than linear, temporal, and causal thinking (de Bono, 1990; see also Cali, 2000;Gardner, 1983).…”

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confidence: 98%