Samuel K. Byrd
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479859405
- eISBN:
- 9781479876426
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479859405.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how Latino immigrant musicians and audience members, through their music making, debate political questions relevant to their everyday lives as working musicians and residents ...
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This chapter examines how Latino immigrant musicians and audience members, through their music making, debate political questions relevant to their everyday lives as working musicians and residents of a globalizing city. Musicians and their audiences negotiate their political stances through a physical and intellectual process called the circular colectivo (collective circle). The collective circle describes the circle of dancers that often form at Eastside rock concerts in Charlotte, in which dancers slam into each other in dances where jumping and shoving serve to unite band and audience in a collective music-making strategy. But the term has an additional meaning—the collective circulation of ideas through music as bands, audience members, and journalists engage in debates about the political and social importance of what they are performing, how they perform it, and its meaning in the context of a politicized immigrant presence in the U.S. South.Less
This chapter examines how Latino immigrant musicians and audience members, through their music making, debate political questions relevant to their everyday lives as working musicians and residents of a globalizing city. Musicians and their audiences negotiate their political stances through a physical and intellectual process called the circular colectivo (collective circle). The collective circle describes the circle of dancers that often form at Eastside rock concerts in Charlotte, in which dancers slam into each other in dances where jumping and shoving serve to unite band and audience in a collective music-making strategy. But the term has an additional meaning—the collective circulation of ideas through music as bands, audience members, and journalists engage in debates about the political and social importance of what they are performing, how they perform it, and its meaning in the context of a politicized immigrant presence in the U.S. South.
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226698847
- eISBN:
- 9780226699035
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226699035.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
The focus of this chapter is a case study of the most prominent African American politician to engage in racial distancing, President Barack Obama. Newspaper accounts, content analysis of television ...
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The focus of this chapter is a case study of the most prominent African American politician to engage in racial distancing, President Barack Obama. Newspaper accounts, content analysis of television advertisements, and the analysis of speeches are used to support the claim that the Obama campaign engaged in racial distancing. The rhetoric used in Obama speeches to predominantly black and Latino audiences is compared to the rhetoric used in Obama speeches to predominantly white audiences, to support the claim that the theme of hard work was systematically deployed by Obama when speaking to people of color.Less
The focus of this chapter is a case study of the most prominent African American politician to engage in racial distancing, President Barack Obama. Newspaper accounts, content analysis of television advertisements, and the analysis of speeches are used to support the claim that the Obama campaign engaged in racial distancing. The rhetoric used in Obama speeches to predominantly black and Latino audiences is compared to the rhetoric used in Obama speeches to predominantly white audiences, to support the claim that the theme of hard work was systematically deployed by Obama when speaking to people of color.
