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... that, engaging new forms of technology, do not require the practices of European curatorship. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Buzz and Rumble Global Pop Music and Utopian Impulse Jayna Brown Thinking about utopia is relevant in our times. It is particularly urgent in our globalized...

... with unpredictable results. This essay argues that pop evanescence emerged as often as punk dissonance. The bands also intervened and vamped it up in the performance spaces of the music industry, including the television shows Top of the Pops and American Bandstand , playing off the alienating restrictions of lip...

...Debra Rae Cohen; Michael Coyle Attention to pop ideology is inevitably limited where it doesn’t take formal questions into consideration. However, the question of form in a pop record is itself complicated, because form here doesn’t simply mean song form: it also involves negotiations...

... this archive provides lessons on the distribution of wealth, precarity, and belonging in our world. Copyright © Duke University Press 2017 Zadie Smith Nicki Minaj Psy pop queer Aesthetic categories are, in their definition, social: to describe something as belonging to an aesthetic category...

... exhibition of the powers of what Walter Benjamin called the mimetic faculty, the ability to perceive and produce similarities (as distinct from sameness or identity). I argue in my forthcoming Like Andy Warhol that this ability was central to Warhol’s pop...

... manipulators, as Patrick Deer notes in his coda to this issue, of what John Lydon would label the “Public Image” with all the suspect “pop” connotations the term implied. For that sin alone, punk risks damnation in the eyes of some, especially for those fans or critics for whom authenticity remains...

... not explain why certain products are described as cheesy, yet never as campy. Some culture, of course, straddles the line: Japanese pop culture critic Mark Schilling calls Godzilla movies “campy [and] cheesy,”11 and two gay men...

... into the center of the capital city Groszny only to pop up out of the sewers to destroy the Russian vehicles using rocket-propelled grenades. These premoni- tory episodes went largely unheeded, so that when former Marine Corps Commandant Gen...

... said, “We smoked a lot. And when my cousins smoked, they’d start shooting. Pop. Pop. Pop. Then some guys would shoot back. Pop. Pop. Pop. I was hanging out with the wrong people.” He shook his head, “For real, I’d get killed out there.” Out...

... pertained to both public and private spheres, underwriting the utopianism of the New Left as well as the self-­concerned individualism that colluded with emerging neoliberal capitalism.5 Pop cultural forms — especially rock ’n’ roll — created a theatrics...

...- shooter” media mastery. The first-person-shooter video game, relished by American youth, is not pushing violence into everyday life, but rather refracts a wider militarized biomedia that recodes human life into dispos- able pop-up targets. The first...

... and aah’s of the clients getting done by the meth girls who were turned out to turn tricks. That was more than we wanted to know. In a covert bell curve moment, the lower than average intelligence quotient of bleached D.C. allocated 20 mill, a buck a pop & mom, to equalize Negroes with psychic...

... typical image of sound recording in the Euro-American cultural imaginary is probably that of the genius music producer, always male, mostly but not always white, sitting at an immense mixing board as a rock, hip-hop, or pop act runs through its paces...

... her, Lady Gaga creates alter egos; she syncs pop and punk sounds and she mixes dance stutters into sonic hiccups to create a spasmodic femininity that lurches and jerks into action. She also confuses the boundaries between internal and external, both highlighting the ways in which girls...

... metro area. Occasionally, nightclub promoters book Kriolu rappers to per- form in places that are part of the more conventional circuits of urban pop- ular culture. Usually these gigs occur on a theme night of “Luso-­African” pop or some other “special...

... continued nervously, “For real. Keep me busy. Keep me fuckin’ busy. I don’t need to be in the streets dodgin’ bul- lets and shit. It’s crazy out there. Guy in my church just got shot. Went to his funeral yesterday. It was sad, man. Kid was pumpin’ gas. Got three to the head. Pop. Pop. Pop. He...

... article in the Village Voice, Scott Woods feels compelled to classify all female pop R&B performers as “Cell-Phone Girls.”43 The “cell phone effect” marks the performers’ recorded voices as technologically embodied. Instead of trying...

...: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian Free Enterprise is forth- coming from Harvard University Press. Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. She is the author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latiniza- tion of American Culture (NYU Press), a 2004 Choice...

... that are barely growing pubic hair. They get emotional over the lead singer, not the music. That’s number one. Number two: Is it necessary to create another genre just to express emotions? Is Death Metal not enough? Is Punk not enough? Are pop acts like Camila, Sin Bandera, and José...

..., Susette Min, Gayatri Gopinath, and Kandice Chuh for the interdisciplinary conversations they generated on Asian American art. Thanks also to Anna McCarthy for her insightful suggestions and to Seher Shah for sharing her artistic process. 1. See “Jihad Pop: An Interview with Seher...