it's been a week. get sentimental with us ;o;
Last week in the wild wild east… we bawled to ballads. (A special feature: Nami played a cover of Yutaka Ozaki’s “I Love You”!)
In this episode we listened to ballads as music, commercial product, and social milieu. Ballads do more than pull at heartstrings. They’re characterized by a listening culture which includes emotional bonds formed between performer and fan, expressed and shaped through the patterning of music, lyrics, performance, and social interaction. (One such example is the performance of fan chants, which derive from patterns of audience participation in the traditional arts and have taken on extra-musical meanings.) We discussed how the patterning of aestheticized emotional longing affects the ways in which a social collective imagines itself and how people connect. Reflecting on the social bonds that are borne out of belting out ballads in a karaoke booth with friends, family, or colleagues, we revisit ballads as a nostalgically framed collective memory.
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