- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
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, Áine 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Interlude One: ‘The Evil of the Thriller’
- Interlude Two: ‘You’re fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller’
- Interlude Three: Fade to black
- Interlude Four: ‘Music is the language of the soul’
- Interlude Five: Michael Jackson, the undead and the posthumous duet
- Interlude Six: ‘It’s more fun in the Philippines’
- Interlude Seven: Thank you for the music
- Coda
- Appendix: CPDRC dancing inmates YouTube video uploads by Byron F. Garcia
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Imprint