January 18, 2017 You can access this essay at Musicology Now. Interested in learning more about inauguration music? Please check out Musicology Now’s other inauguration-related essays. And join Musicology Now for their live blog event which will start on January 19th and continue into inauguration day. Musicology Now is a blog sponsored by the AmericanContinue reading “Donald Trump, Jackie Evancho, and the Performance of Embattled Whiteness”
Monthly Archives: January 2017
The Trump Bump II: Satire, Remix Culture, and User-generated Campaign Musical Posts
January 12, 2017 In a previous contribution to Trax on the Trail, I noted that Donald Trump had received “more nightly [i.e. televisual] news attention than all of the Democratic campaigns combined,” and “unquestionably more attention online than any other Republican candidate.”[i] As the official Republican presidential candidate, Trump continued to garner extensive audiovisual coverage, butContinue reading “The Trump Bump II: Satire, Remix Culture, and User-generated Campaign Musical Posts”