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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

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  a commentary on the “Black is Beautiful” era, which dates back to James Brown’s 1968 hit “Say It Loud (I’m ... Black and I’m Proud),” a song that became the soundtrack to the following decade, featuring ...
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  The Affective Behind-the-Scenes Paratexts

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  May 24, 2016

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  industries. It is rare that an official paratext such as a DVD extra creates an emotional impact (aside from ...
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  Performing Proximity to Fame in RU Talkin’ R.E.M. RE: Me?

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  Justin Owen Rawlins The University of Tulsa

  July 29, 2019

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  audience—are quickly brushed aside to focus instead on leveraging their capital into an authentic, unforeseen ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

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  cultural values and norms. I think this last benefit in particular is what I’m getting from telling you how ...
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  Could I Hear That on YouCode?

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  Nick Montfort MIT

  February 09, 2012

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  Could I Hear That on YouCode? Sound programming music distribution digital literature demoscene computation Curator's Note The basic idea of this video is to display a series of very short C programs and JavaScript expressions that produce music. Thi ...
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  Scandalous Conspiracies: Making Sense of Popular Scandal Through Conspiracy

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  Jason Derby Georgia State University

  April 08, 2013

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  Scandalous Conspiracies: Making Sense of Popular Scandal Through Conspiracy scandal music Conspiracy Theories conspiracy Curator's Note After a night of drinking and drug use intermixed with the music of heavy metal band Judas Priest, James Vance and ...
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  Girl Power: Revisited

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  Elizabeth Franko University of Houston

  June 15, 2007

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  of Shampoo significantly shift the traditional construction of femininity and offer a possible source ...
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  Performance and the Pursuit of Stardom in Anvil: The Story of Anvil

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  Jesse Schlotterbeck Denison University

  August 12, 2015

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  possible that the band could make it big. This blurry, unrestored VHS footage is followed by shots of ...
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  “Darkness Falls Across the Land”: Pre-Existing Music and Strange Associations

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  Elizabeth Rosemary Hunt University of Liverpool

  October 28, 2017

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  Things. Also interesting is how sparingly Jackson’s vocals appear. It is possible Price’s monologue was ...
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  Fever Ray Takes the Plunge: Queer Rage and the Limits of Control

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  Michael Frazer Auburn University

  May 11, 2018

  table with xyr detached "feminine" captor/lover(?) (though possibly not female identifying- ...

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