{"title":"Lawrence Welk","authors":"Bradley Rogers","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.141","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the musical politics of Lawrence Welk, the bandleader whose television show was a mainstay of American popular culture from 1955 through 1982. I argue that Welk’s interests in gender, family, and work—both philosophically and musically—reveal the maestro as a harbinger of late twentieth-century political and cultural discourse. I focus on Welk’s transition (around 1970–1973) from his trademark champagne sound—which featured woodwinds and ornamentation—to a “Big Band Sound,” which emphasized the unison open brass. Around the same time, he stopped referring to his ensemble as “The Champagne Music Makers” and began calling them his “Musical Family.” I argue that his “Big Band Sound” was in fact a musical articulation of his “Musical Family”—and that Welk instituted both of these changes in response to what he perceived as the decline of American work ethic and sexual morality. I suggest that Welk’s champagne sound, which once signified whiteness, was now feminized and seen as emblematic of indolent hedonism. He sought to purge this feminization—and this aversion to work—precisely by adopting the more “masculine” brassy sound. I also show how he deployed family acts—and his managerial scheme of a “Family Plan”—to promote his conservative ideals about work and the family. In this way, Welk provided the sound of the Nixonian “silent majority.” I conclude by noting how three elements of Welk’s show—his fondness for mistakes, the emphasis on visual spectacle, and the erratic temporality of syndication—provide the potential for a counter-reading of his efforts.","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48381331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Said the Hooker to the Thief","authors":"M. Grier","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47918116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhyme, Reason, Rogue","authors":"Ayo Adeduntan","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.44","url":null,"abstract":"Popular culture is often othered in conservative theses as inferior and [or because it is] foreign. Scholarship and views on popular music in Nigeria have been sometimes inattentive to the extent that the popular musical forms have gone to entrench themselves as recognizable local forms. This article compares older popular forms that are now canonized—such as jùjú and highlife—with Nigerian Yoruba hip hop to show the peculiar historical factors that justify the latter’s cultural heterodoxy. The dominant hip hop morality that emerged is defiantly divergent from the earlier stress on formal education and legitimate industry. Importantly, hip hop performance in Yoruba has evolved a protocol of social criticism that first presents itself as acquiescent and/or reprobate. Also, existing conceptualization of hip hop acts as hidden [or even public] transcripts is complicated by the novel strategy of mimicry now found in the Yoruba form.","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67257695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rock Trolls and Recovery","authors":"K. Grover","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44831907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America, by Felicia Angeja Viator","authors":"J. McNally","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2022.34.1.172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43757522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Regulatory role and related mechanism of skin gamma-delta T cell subsets in wound re-epithelialization].","authors":"W F He","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn501120-20211210-00411","DOIUrl":"10.3760/cma.j.cn501120-20211210-00411","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Re-epithelialization is one of the core links that determines the healing process of skin wounds. The proliferation and differentiation of epidermal stem cells to form new epidermal tissue is the histological basis of re-epithelialization, and the smooth progress of the cell differentiation process of epidermal stem cells-precursor cells-terminal cells is the cytological basis for the continuous formation of new epidermal tissue. The proliferation of stem cells and their differentiation into precursor cells are the determinants of the proliferative potential of newly formed epidermal tissue, while the expansion and differentiation of precursor cells into terminal cells are key factors determining the rate of new epidermal tissue formation. The tissue microenvironment plays a key regulatory role in the process of wound re-epithelialization, and cell growth factor and inflammatory mediators are the two main components of tissue microenvironment, which play regulatory role in different aspects of proliferation and differentiation of epidermal stem cells, jointly promoting the smooth progress of wound re-epithelialization As an important part of skin immune system, the subsets of gamma-delta (γδ) T cells play crucial role in dynamically shaping early wound microenvironment via secreting different cell growth factors and inflammatory factors. From the prospective of immune microenvironment of wound, this paper discusses the role of skin γδ T cells in maintaining the balance of stem cell proliferation and differentiation and regulating wound re-epithelialization, providing a new direction for the prevention and treatment of refractory wound.</p>","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"114-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86237097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jotería Listening","authors":"Eddy Francisco Alvarez","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.126","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is a mapping of Latinx queer listening practices and spaces, such as bars and restaurants, as forms of resistance to gentrification in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Using a framework called “joteria listening,” and following the route of a performance event and ritual called LA Queer Posada in 2011, the author charts a sonic trail composed of sounds, songs, and memories of places and people in Silver Lake displaced by gentrification and historical erasure. Drawing from sound studies, performance studies and joteria studies, and using oral histories, interviews, archival sources, and ethnography, this essay offers innovative ways to think of queer Latinx sound and space as it adds layers to the palimpsestic map of Silver Lake and beyond. While listening to urban hauntings, sounds of loss, celebration and resistance, it offers new ways of remembering, performing and imagining community, futurity, and a more just world.","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44550353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The (Ho)rror of It All","authors":"Zalika U. Ibaorimi","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.34","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49378985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plainly Audible","authors":"Alison Martin","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.104","url":null,"abstract":"This article tells the story of the Amplified Noise Act of 2018, a bill introduced through Washington, DC’s council to discourage street musicians in DC’s Chinatown neighborhood from disturbing local residents and office workers in the area. The punitive measures proposed in the bill included a $300 fine, up to ten days in jail, and/or the seizing of the offending equipment by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The public hearing, protests, and legislative maneuvering that followed encapsulate the racialized and sonic dimensions of gentrification in Washington, DC. I introduce these events through a theoretical framework that I call “intersectional listening.” Drawing on the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw and intellectual genealogies of Black feminist thought, intersectional listening attends to the sonically articulated expressions of identity that are present in processes of gentrification, producing an analysis that attends to the complexities of sound, power, and race in a changing city. Processes of gentrification amplify tensions surrounding sound, music, and noise in both public and private space, and these tensions are deeply racialized because of the ways in which Black people have long been deemed sonically unruly and unmanageable. Ultimately, this article works to decriminalize Black sound and amplify those striving to do the same.","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48744565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review essay: Between the Material and the Ephemeral","authors":"S. Waksman","doi":"10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.4.203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43525,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Music Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45897021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}