By Katherine L. Meizel
The hit tv software American Idol presents a degree the place the politics of nationwide, local, ethnic, and spiritual id are played for thousands of audience. variety is thoroughly highlighted and coached right into a achievable commodity through judges, argues Katherine Meizel, with contestants packaged into regularly occurring graphics of yankee identities. patron selection, as expressed through viewers balloting, additionally shapes the process the show—negotiating rules of democracy and chance heavily linked to the yank Dream. via interviews with viewers individuals and individuals, and cautious analyses of tv publicizes, advertisement recordings, and print and on-line media, Meizel demonstrates that advertisement track and the tune usually are not easily forces to be criticized or resisted, yet severe websites for redefining American culture.
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American Idol is not a wholly novel phenomenon; it represents an escalation of this dialecticism and the continuing relevance of the sociocultural themes at work there. It definitively shatters a fourth wall already weakened by the largely actor-less nature of reality television, illuminating the power struggle between producers and viewers, and between belief and skepticism, that marks the twenty-first-century television experience so far. Chapter 2, “Facing the Music,” examines Idol play involving genre boundaries in popular music and how they relate to the voicing of American identity in contestants’ performance practices.
It definitively shatters a fourth wall already weakened by the largely actor-less nature of reality television, illuminating the power struggle between producers and viewers, and between belief and skepticism, that marks the twenty-first-century television experience so far. Chapter 2, “Facing the Music,” examines Idol play involving genre boundaries in popular music and how they relate to the voicing of American identity in contestants’ performance practices. 24 Popular music has had its own high/low discourses, and American Idol bends and intertwines them so that their boundaries, too, are both confounded and reinforced, a business strategy to reach as wide an audience, and as wide a market, as possible.
Borders. Though the format originated in the United Kingdom, the reality-TV manufacture of the pop star is intricately linked with the worldwide discourse and commodification of democratic ideals. Perhaps even more significant, the viewer voting process also becomes a saleable metonym for democracy itself. At a time when promoting democracy is a chief preoccupation of American foreign policy and the global gaze, it may serve us well to ask what, exactly, in terms of images, ideals, and ideologies, is being exported to such a large percentage of the world.