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Title Adapting idols : authenticity, identity and performance in a global television format / edited by Koos Zwaan and Joost de Bruin
Published Farnham ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages.)
Series [Ashgate popular and folk music series]
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Contents Strategic behaviour in the international exploitation of TV formats : a case study of the Idols format / Sukhpreet Singh, Martin Kretschmer -- How media system rather than culture determines national variation : Danish Idols and Australian idol compared / Pia Majbritt Jensen -- Articulations of national, regional and ethnic identities in official Idols websites / Joost de Bruin -- The search for an Asian idol : the performance of regional identity in reality television / Jinna Tay -- 'Accept no limitations' : expressions of diasporic identity in Nigerian idol / Tess Conner -- An idol against his will? : Ethnicity and cultural inclusion in Czech search for a superstar / Vaclav Stetka -- The power of imitation in Music idol : popular music and cultural agency in post-socialist Bulgaria / Plamena Kourtova -- Does race matter to Generation Y? : The politics of identity in Australian idol / Henk Huijser -- Superstar and Middle Eastern political identities / Mary Ghattas -- Fandom, politics and the Super girl contest in a globalized China / Jeroen de Kloet, Stefan Landsberger -- Can a zero become a hero? : Comparing personal characteristics of audition and live show contestants of the Dutch Idols / Koos Zwaan, Tom ter Bogt -- Are you a musician? : The rock ideology and the construction of authenticity on Australian idol / Nicholas Carah -- Gender performance in American idol, pop idol and The X factor / Ruth A. Deller -- Watching without voting : Norwegian child audiences questioning Idols' ethos / Vebjorg Tingstad -- Our own Idols : appropriations of popular television in Dutch festivity culture / Stijn Reijnders, Gerard Rooijakkers, Liesbet van Zoonen -- Appendix 1. Historic overviews of idols adaptations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
SUBJECT Pop idol (Television program : 2001-2003) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012027689
Subject Reality television programs.
Television and music.
Form Electronic book
Author Zwaan, Koos, editor
Bruin, Joost de, editor
Taylor & Francis.
ISBN 9781315565620 (electronic bk.)
1315565625 (electronic bk.)
Other Titles Authenticity, identity and performance in a global television format