Dangerous Mediations

Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video

Áine Mangaoang

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781501378386
• eBook ISBN: 9781501331558
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Pop Music

Winner of The Woody Guthrie First Book Award 2021

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.

INDEX

ABBA here, here, here

Abu Ghraib here

advertisements, advertising here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here–here

affect here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here

affective memories here

affective processes here, here, here

noise as affect here

African-American here, here, here

amateur, amateurs here, here–here, here, here, here. See also pro-ams

ambassador here–here. See also cultural diplomacy

‘Ambassadors of Goodwill’ here, here, here–here, here

American popular culture here, here, here, here, here–here

An American Werewolf in London (film) here, here

Appadurai, Arjun here, here–here, here

archive, archives here, here, here, here, here

digital archives here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Attali, Jacques here, here, here, here–here, here

audience here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here

audience response here, here, here–here, here–here, here

film and television audiences here–here, here–here, here

audiovisual here–here, here, here–here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here

aesthetics here, here–here, here,...

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