“One Shining Moment’s” recent revisions suggest that the mythic meaning the highlight attaches to the men's tournament is contingent upon the stability of the gendered television viewing experience it constructs.
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Sporting Goods: Nostalgia, Gender, and Revision in CBS’ “One Shining Moment”
An Incomplete History: “Women Who Rock” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I found myself in Cleveland last week. My friend Amy Rigby, a musician who plies her trade in one of the parallel music industries that I talked about in my recent post about the Grammy Awards, had things to do in Cleveland. I’d been threatening for months to take advantage of being on sabbatical...
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1984 All Over Again: The 2012 Grammy Awards Telecast
I’m going to say this up front: I’m a music snob, and I hate the very idea of the Grammy Awards. If you’re looking for dispassionate analysis, stop reading now.
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What Are You Missing? January 15-28
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? January 1-14
Your #1 source for Lions Gate news returns with ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 27-Dec 10
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What Are You Missing? Nov 13-26
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What Are You Missing? Sept 25-Oct 8
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Cloudy with a Chance of Media
Music in the cloud services, such as Apple's iCloud, are a specific snapshot of music as a cultural commodity, one that sees music as indelibly networked to certain providers and technologies.
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What Are You Missing? Aug 28-Sept 10
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What Are You Missing? August 14-27
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Music is a Character
That night Donald told me that music was a character on Treme. That made some sense to me, having argued in the past that product plugging turned commodities into characters on sitcoms. But that was a criticism. How did it work for the culture of jazz on TV exactly?
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Tremé: Feels Like Joy and Pain
The challenge facing Tremé (and every other media representation of New Orleans) is finding a way to balance a celebration of the city’s unique cultural contributions with an acknowledgment of its more conventional, and often more damning, histories, memories, and contemporary realities. Week 6’s episode “Feels Like Rain” responds to this challenge, self-consciously,...
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Minstrel Show in a Three-Day Stubble of a City
The second season shapes up to reconnect the city with the world around it: New Orleaneans are confronted with outsider views of the city as becomes clear in Delmond's argument about New Orleans music with fellow jazz lovers and Janette's conversation with her fellow cooks after reading Alan Richman's devastating review.
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