BANGTAN SONYEONDAN (BTS) AS NEW AMERICAN IDOL

South Korean pop songs or colloquially K-pop has spread globally. America also has a massive impact on this K-pop wave phenomenon. America now gives its enormous attention to the Bangtan Sonyeondan group or BTS group because this K-pop group is prevalent and becomes the new idol in America. In the beginning, K-pop is not successful, but until BTS comes and becomes a global sensation there. This paper tries to analyze which factors enable BTS to be the new idol in America. The writer uses a qualitative method to conduct the data and reception theory from Stuart Hall in the analysis. This analysis results in BTS, as the most popular K-pop group in America nowadays, has two factors that enable them to dominate American fans. The first one is through their androgyny physical appearance that redefines American traditional macho masculinity. The second one is through messages in their songs that raise social issues and mental health problems, helping their fans survive in their harsh lives.Keywords: BTS; decoded; encoded; k-pop; reception theory

Compliment Strategies Used by The Judges in Indonesian and American Idol 2019: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Study

Background: This is a contrastive study that compares the investigation on the patterns of compliments strategies used by the judges in Indonesian Idol and American Idol 2019. This study aims at describing the compliment strategies addressed by the judges in two reality talent shows, that’s a singing competition, and to reveal the differences of cultural values between the two societies. Methodology: The data is collected from the two YouTube accounts for the top three finalists’ performance by utilizing the observation method with the note-taking technique. Ye’s compliment strategies theory (1995) and Holmes’ syntactic patterns of compliments (1995) are employed in analyzing the data. Findings: The result showed a significant difference between Indonesian and American judges in the way they give compliments. Indonesian judges prefer to use more explicit compliments while American judges prefer implicit compliments instead. Conclusion: It then revealed the contrastive cultural reflection of western people that is supposed to be ‘more ‘direct’ in the way of speaking’ (Wierzbicka, 2003). On the other hand, the finding exhibited contrast results from conventional perception upon Indonesian cultural predilection to ‘indirectness’ in the way of speaking. Keywords: American Idol 2019; Compliment Strategies; Cross-cultural Pragmatics; Indonesian Idol 2019; The Judges.

“That’s Just Your Opinion!” - “American Idol” and the Confusion Between Pluralism and Relativism

Many student-teachers (and the students they teach) fail to understand the difference between opinions in the sense of preferences, and opinions in the sense of judgments. The phrase “That’s just your opinion!” (as wielded by contestants on the television series “American Idol”) is used to shield not only preferences but also judgments from public scrutiny. This misunderstanding springs from confusion between pluralism and relativism. Students’ fear of moral absolutism leads them to espouse relativism when they should be promoting pluralism. Within a conception of education as a social practice that mediates between the private and the public, students must learn both to justify their own judgments and to examine the judgments and justifications that others provide. This requires that students learn to distinguish “just my opinion” and “just your opinion” from morally significant judgments.

Step It Up and Go

This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina’s extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state’s music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina’s Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and mountain coves to college-town clubs and the stage of American Idol, Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, Step It Up and Go celebrates homegrown music just as essential to the state as barbecue and basketball. Spanning a century of history from the dawn of recorded music to the present, and with sidebars and photos that help reveal the many-splendored glory of North Carolina’s sonic landscape, this is a must-read for every music lover.

Famous on Television

During its run, the singing-contest show “American Idol” produced the statistical oddity that three of its 15 winners came from North Carolina -- 20 percent, far more than any other state. The show’s rise coincided with the decline of the record industry, which was grappling with plummeting record sales. In 2006’s fifth season, the year three of the show’s top-eight finalists were from North Carolina, “American Idol” was at its peak as one of the last, best ways to sell records. Scotty McCreery, Fantasia Barrino, Chris Daughtry, and Clay Aiken are among North Carolina’s native sons and daughters to ride it to fame.

POPULAR MUSICAL TELEVISION PROJECTS OF THE LATE XX – EARLY XXI CENTURIES

The article is devoted to the study of the general state of television in the field of music performance. The most popular musical television programs and vocal shows are considered. The purpose of the work is to identify the features of music TV projects, comparing with world models and highlighting the typical features of the musical television space. The research methodology consists in applying the general principles of scientific knowledge that correspond to modern cultural discourse. The formation of musical and television projects in the context of changes in the social mentality of the consumer of mass culture is considered. Television is interpreted as a means of approaching the global process closer to a person, that is, a consumer communicates with world-wide examples of popular art, music television projects, vocal show projects and etc. It creates the preconditions for imitation of the best world models of music TV projects in Ukraine. The article first analyzes the interconnection of Ukrainian music television projects as analogues to such worldwide shows as "The Voice", "The X factor", "American Idol". Vocal talent shows are considered as combining the elements of a “game show” and a “perfection / transformation show”, promoting the development of the educational component, namely, the formation of educational activity through comments and advice of judges, classes with participants between performances, determination of the most successful performances, concert practice and etc. It was determined, that the vocal repertoire consists of the most popular world and national hits, which reflects the demand of the audience. It was noted, that the viewer influences the selection of participants in a music television project and functions as an additional judge. So, the article focuses on the structure and content of musical television projects, defines the values of such projects as the communication space of culture between the audience, the artistic and performing component, and the national and world music culture as a whole. Music television projects are part of the general educational context for the development of media art and have a scientific, artistic and educational potential for study.

Introduction

(I am large, I contain multitudes.) —Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” On a foggy San Francisco day in 2004, I sat in an empty hallway with a fellow conservatory alumna, passing time until auditions began for the fourth season of American Idol. We belted out Appalachian ballads and traded tunes sharing her fiddle, against a sonic background of nervous would-be pop stars warming up. Though our paths had crossed in college, I hadn’t met her until a mutual friend invited her to join us at the auditions—I was tagging along for my dissertation research, taking notes while they sang hurried, cattle-call covers in front of a judging panel. After we left the stadium, she gave me an autographed copy of her just-completed demo album, which she had titled ...

Television Music

The literature on television music has been gradually expanding since the earliest studies dating from the 1950s. Because of the medium’s infancy at this time, the literature was limited and only began to really blossom in the 1970s and 1980s. Studies on television music can be divided into four types: music in television shows; music on television, such as live music shows like American Idol and The Voice and opera on and for television; music for advertising, such as commercials; and music videos. The items in this bibliography will focus on only the first of the four types—music written for television series. Despite the growth in television music research, few sources are dedicated to only television music, but rather are joined with sources about film music, which has, in general, been more wide-ranging than television music studies. All of the sources on television music in this article were written in English, though there are other sources in languages such as French, German, Italian, and Spanish. More work on television music has been conducted in the second decade of the 21st century than ever before, with the demand for it in published research continually increasing. This bibliography contains the most influential sources concerning television music, from reference works to material on specialized areas. It will also consider blogs, which, now more than ever, form an increasingly useful platform for the publication of television music scholarship.

An affect value analysis of comments given by judges in American Idol in the light of Appraisal Theory

The paper focused on investigating the language of Affect in comments given by judges in American Idol in the view of Appraisal Theory by Martin and White (2005). The paper is theoretically based on Appraisal, specifically Affect and its subtypes namely Un/Happiness, Dis/ Inclination, In/ Security, Dis/ Satisfaction. In addition, it is about the data and methods applied. The findings reveal that all sub-types of Affect used in the language of judges in American Idol and they had the differences in the values realized Affect.