Unruly Puppets: Producing the Urban Poor in a Bangladeshi Television Idol Competition

IF 1.4 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Din M. Sumon Rahman
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Magic Tin Chakar Taroka (Magic Three-Wheeler Star) or Tin Chaka (Three- Wheeler) is a reality competition to find music talent exclusively from the urban poor of Dhaka city. This programme was shown on Bangladeshi satellite television in 2008. The present article is an ethnographic exploration of the Tin Chaka event which demonstrates how the cultural identity of the urban poor in Dhaka has been performed by the production of ordinary celebrities in the visual media. In doing so, a combination of on-screen and off-screen observations were undertaken for a period of six months which was complemented by semiological interpretation of adverts, jingles and other visual materials. In this article, I argue that, despite its admirable inclusivity and thereby remarkably instant acceptance by the audience, the reason behind the discontinuation of Tin Chaka in following years lies in the inscriptions of the show as a charitable undertaking, an act which has often been performed in the reality television programmes in the name of “democratisation”.
不守规矩的木偶:在孟加拉国电视偶像比赛中制作城市贫民
Magic Tin Chakar Taroka (Magic Three-Wheeler Star)或Tin Chaka (Three- Wheeler)是一个现实竞争,专门从达卡市的城市穷人中寻找音乐人才。该节目于2008年在孟加拉国卫星电视台播出。本文是对Tin Chaka事件的民族志探索,它展示了达卡城市贫民的文化认同是如何通过视觉媒体中普通名人的制作来表现的。在此过程中,在为期六个月的时间里,对屏幕上和屏幕外的观察进行了结合,并辅以对广告、广告歌和其他视觉材料的符号学解释。在这篇文章中,我认为,尽管它令人钦佩的包容性,并因此得到了观众的迅速接受,但在接下来的几年里,《天查卡》停播的原因在于,该节目被列为慈善事业,这是一种经常在真人秀节目中以“民主化”的名义进行的行为。
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International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies
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