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... female performer and, in some cases, a pop music sound track; these films include COSMIC RAY (1961), VIVIAN (1964), EASTER MORNING RAGA (1966), and THE WHITE ROSE (1967). This essay examines a work by Conner that combines all of these elements, 1966's BREAKAWAY, an experimental dance film he made...

... the politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the consequences of cross-over marketing in the music industry. My study attempts to unravel the layers of media representations that construct a contem- porary pop superstar. While my conclusions are specific to Whitney Houston, one could...

... was originally cool. Although previous seasons in the Reply series occasionally featured covers of past hits, Reply 1988 remakes most of its songs, emphasizing ballads of the 1980s. This genre, which persisted through the early 1990s, represents the first golden age of Korean pop music, and covers...

... the screening, the songs frequently spoke ironically to the images on-­screen, while the images reinterpreted or accentuated the songs’ lyrics. Through juxtaposition with the film, the songs became resignified as well. I imagine something similar happens every time the film screens with pop music...

... to the past. This interpretation of One Direction's hiatus also combines a form of suspicious reading—in which the word hiatus conceals a truth that the sophisticated fan or journalist can uncover—with a writing of pop music history as inevitably conforming to one particular temporal formula. The job...

... arguably became contemporary pop music’s primo uomo when he was asked to be the first man to perform on the VH-1 Divas Live shows (1998 – 2004) in 1999. Allegedly exchanging heated words with each other right before the show, John and Tina Turner went on to perform a ferocious “The Bitch...

... originally had a mainly corrective goal: to inaudibly smooth out false tones and other imperfections in the singer's voice, to bring her voice to perfect pitch. 42 Indeed, a large part of electronic and pop music production still uses Auto-Tune for pitch correction. 58. Reproduced in Solon...

... of fashion, music and dance, and automobiles. The reification of the teenager as a pop icon is announced in no uncertain terms by Mambo Girl’s rather odd opening credit sequence. A series of line drawings of dynamic dancing figures provide the backdrop for a doll realistically rendered as a young...

..., and women’s music, and thus risked reaffirming the very historical association of power and masculinity against which the company is working.51 One nonrock genre that Daisy Rock no longer ignores is pop, a form of popular music in which many women have excelled. Nonetheless, it is troubling...

... the governor of Oz, believing that Elphaba has killed herself, but Elphaba is alive, and she leaves Oz with Fiyero to go to another land. Wicked’s music and lyrics were written by Stephen Schwartz, who also wrote Godspell (1971) and Pippin (1972). Its musical style is hummable pop, and its...

... da Xuxa contributes to such an image, Simpson argues, with its "glossy, cosmopolitan look," extensive use of generic-sounding disco and pop music, and central emphasis on the fashionably (and often sexily) dressed star." Simpson describes a typical episode: [T...

... interest in Jones’s music, particularly in her early 1980s albums, whose austere pop aesthetic — what Simon Reynolds and Joy Press call “the eroticisation of alienation” — is beginning to sound cutting edge again, in a back-to-the-future kind of way.7 In 2003,  Jones was a special guest at London’s...

... are contemporary, but proceed largely through flashbacks, often motivated by pop music. 21. “ ‘Thirtysomething’: A Chronicle of Everyday Life” C26. Cf. Zwick’s statement that “It’s not that we don’t endorse the larger, sociopolitical concerns of hunger, the homeless...

.... For Girls, music supervi- sors Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe secured sync licensing agree- ments with Swedish electro duo Icona Pop, singer-songwriter Lia Ices, and indie dance act Christine and the Queens.8 As part of her development deal with HBO, Rae hired music video direc- tor Melina Matsoukas to direct...

...Francesca Coppa Vidding is a thirty-year-old remix practice in which predominantly female media fans reedit television or film into music videos. Vidding is important not only as an art form in its own right but also as a subcultural — and often feminist — reinterpretation of and confrontation...

... singer and actress Whitney Houston as her primary text, Shelton traces the political and historical contexts that influence the presentation, popularity, and consumption of particular Black female pop stars. Examining the figure of Houston across the popular media of music, television, and film...

... result, also emphasized by strictly narrative means, is to underline the fact that music in Western society is a consumer item (Nana sells records in Vivre sa vie; Madeleine is a pop singer in Masculinfiminin). Turning finally to what is broadly termed “sound effects,” we en- counter...

... constellation was suitable for it. The Nouvelle Vague created a new audience but also the music revolution was important. Rock music brought about many changes: people started going to underground films as they would go to concerts, as a form...

... of Cinema-Television. She is writing her dissertation on African American female pop singers in the music, television, and film industries, and is a Dissertation Fellow at the Frederick Douglas Institute at the University of Rochester. ...

... with the Carpenters’ music and the “naive” early-seventies pop culture but also evoke memories of the tapes’ sources. After a decade-plus of underground life, Superstar cannot be discussed outside the context of its distribution. Nor, I argue, can it be analyzed without looking at the meanings encoded onto...