Mark Pedelty
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 109469 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Pedelty |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Pedelty |
| FIRMA | PEDELTY M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Minnesota System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5762-8064 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 321 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Terror and Control
The Salvadoran military placed restrictions on the movement of journalists throughout much of the war. During the latter half of the conflict, these restrictions were codified into law as the salvoconducto system. Reporters wishing to cover events in the fmln-held territories, which the Salvadoran military called “conflicted zones,” were obligated to obtain a “safe conduct” pass. The effects of the salvoconducto system were wide-ranging. First, i…
A Team, B Team
Most editors demand that news stories include the perspectives, or at least the quoted statements, of official United States government sources. As a result of these pressures, intimate access to The Embassy is crucial to most speca journalists. Most speca staff journalists received their degrees from prestigious universities in the eastern United States or Britain, including Harvard, Cornell, Oxford, and Cambridge. Most of the A Teams ’ editors …
War Photography
No journalist becomes a war correspondent without some attraction to war and violence. The photographers’ proximity to danger adds a daredevil mystique to their work and earns them a special niche in the profession. As Robin Anderson explains in his definitive study of photographic coverage of the Salvadoran war, “there is a tendency to think of the photographer as a hero”. Almost everyone in El Salvador, journalists included, were aware that the…
Conclusion
The extreme social injustice and fear that defines Salvadoran culture, is missing from the news. Without it, none of the surface violence makes sense. The war was represented as a clash of ideologies, rather than a symptom of much more profound social ills. Now the war is gone, but the injustice survives and multiplies. To care is to butt a person&s;s head against an unfeeling bureaucracy and reporting conventions whose very purpose is to produce…
Practice
Much of the Salvadoran war was reported by parachuters. The paratrooping reporters converged on El Salvador whenever a major news event took place, most notably the 1982, 1984, and 1989 elections and the 1989 fmln offensive. During the elections of 1989, for example, 784 reporters registered with coprefa.speca, the permanent and semi-permanently stationed journalists, were overwhelmed on such occasions by descending hordes of transient correspond…
Epilogue
As I was writing this, Carmelo (his real name was Heleno Castro) was shot and killed. On October 30, he and another man got into a heated exchange following a minor collision of their two cars. Carmelo’s killer was a wealthy landowner. Carmelo was the head of the fmln land commission at the time of his death. Human rights organizations, North American academics, and journalists alike have written-off Carmelo’s murder as “nonpolitical.”
Alonzo’s Dream
Alonzo was one of thirty-four Salvadoran journalists in speca. He and his compatriots comprised about 42% of the international press corps during the latter part of the war. A wave of police sirens pierces through the chilled night rain as steam rises from warm pavement around Alonzo’s feet, a perfectly apocalyptic scene. The earnest young reporter is intent upon exposing the Salvadoran military’s participation in the illegal, yet widespread, pro…
The Narrative Structure and Agenda of Objective Journalism
The journalistic ideal of objectivity developed in the last century, but was not the dominant philosophy of United States (US) reporting until after World War II. As the dominant mode of US journalism, this philosophy largely separates the American press from others. Mainstream reporters consider emotions, politics, and theoretical paradigms to be contagions which obfuscate, rather than facilitate, their process of discovery. Balanced reports exh…
On a White Horse
I have chosen the career of one war correspondent, a photographer and occasional writer named Rosa, to illustrate several of the aforementioned themes. I first met Rosa in a bar in Quetzaltenango (“Xela”), Guatemala, where she and several colleagues were covering a “Continental Encounter” of indigenous peoples (see Pedelty 1993 ). She was regaling several young, male correspondents with stories of adventure in El Salvador. Her smoky voice, comman…
Recreational Rituals
This chapter is about their professional play, the ways in which war correspondents recreate themselves through ritual. Not all recreational activities are rituals, however. Reporters play basketball, have semi-normal dating lives, go to the beach, listen to music, and are engaged in other activities that lack the social importance, repetition, standardization, and cultural meanings commonly defined as ritual. The more profound the disjunction be…
Peace Comes to Television
The parachute pack returned to El Salvador for a brief but intense spate of coverage in January and February of 1992. Whereas, the North American sources give voice and frame to the cbs report, the Salvadoran people are fashioned as mute and bloody subjects—victims without voice. The population is constructed as a passive, neutral, and homogeneous mass caught in the middle of ideological cross fire. In the TV news “show,” verbal text is little mo…
Discipline and Publish
After conducting an interview, journalists may negotiate on a quote by quote basis to move information into the category of “background.” Under the rules of background attribution, the source may be cited as “Western diplomat.” Under that guise, actual quotations may be reproduced. Therefore, journalists always hope to be accorded the privilege of “background” status. The rules of objectivity, as currently conceived, further constrict the reporte…
War Games
Once past the obligatory self-deprecating statements of the introduction, the focus turns to the reporter’s courage, cunning, and professional conviction. Husarska brags: All those who have reported from even the seasoned war correspondents, agree that Sarajevo is the most dangerous assignment they have ever had. Most speca reporters believed the ambushed guerrillas had received similar treatment, the tiro de gracia. Of the eighteen guerrillas at…
The Source War
There is a clear distinction made between those Salvadorans who are considered sources and the great majority who are barely considered at all. Minor sources utilized by the foreign press in El Salvador include the Catholic Church and academics at the University of Central America. Even less common are sources from within the popular organizations, unions, peasant cooperatives and politically uninvolved members of the oligarchy. These sources fig…
The Salvadorans of Speca
Public officials were lampooned by speca Salvadorans. One afternoon a group of local reporters gathered in the Reuters office to heckle President Cristiani’s televised address to the United Nations. The statements of a few Salvadorans would seem to support those charges. “Every army has some form of press control,” said one. “They are in the middle of a war. They have every right.” Several stringers claimed that the locals’ speca voting record wa…
Alternatives
Calixto, a Latin American journalist, works for an alternative international news service. Like many of the internationals, Calixto often drew comparisons between his reporting and that of United States (US) correspondents. He called his US counterparts “somewhat ethnocentric.” They have a particularly hard time “escaping the political realities and concepts of their own country,” he said. According to most female respondents, editors actively di…
War Stories
Call and Response
Research Article| July 01 2020 Call and Response: SEM President’s Roundtable 2018, “Humanities’ Responses to the Anthropocene” Timothy Cooley; Timothy Cooley (Chair) Timothy J. Cooley is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He teaches courses on vernacular and popular musics in Central European and the USA. His edited volume, Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomu…
Field to Media
In seeking to respond to the environmental challenges of the Anthropocene era, our research team of five scholars, including faculty and advanced graduate students, along with each of their collaborators in their respective research sites, has come together to explore the possibilities of a methodology that we call Field to Media. Field to Media involves using video production to study and amplify ecomusical responses to climate change, pollution…
Discipline and Publish
Political Rock
Environmental communication and the public sphere
As the number of environmental communication (EC) courses expands, it is important to consider the available pedagogical literature. Robert Cox’s Environmental Communication in the Public Sphere (2
Seen to Be Heard? Gender, Voice, and Body in Television Advertisements
A quantitative content analysis of 1,055 television ads reveals that male voiceovers outnumber female voiceovers 4:1. As has been the case for decades in television, a man is much more likely to serve as the disembodied and objective voice of authority, expertise, and reason. However, a woman's voice is twice as likely to be heard if her body is also represented on screen. Based on that finding, the authors argue that scopocentric sexism influenc…
Ecomusicology, Music Studies, and IASPM
Ecomusicologists have answered Philip Tagg's call to develop a more interdisciplinary and interprofessional "music studies." Ecomusicologists are demonstrating an exceptional openness to theories and methodologies generated from outside their home disciplines. Of course, no single transdisciplinary conversation will solve all of the problems Philip Tagg outlines in "Caught on the Back Foot: epistemic inertia and visible music" (2011). However, ec…
Teaching Ethnographic Journalism
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
War Stories
Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River
In 1941, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) hired Woody Guthrie to record music for a film promoting dams along the Columbia River. A fierce debate rages today concerning the dams. Both sides reference Guthrie's music and image in order to bolster their arguments. An examination of contracts, diaries, lyric sheets, letters, interviews, and other documents housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives reveals that the folk icon's relationship to the…
The Bolero
A la suite de la revolution politique du Mexique en 1910-1917, on peut evoquer une reelle revolution sociale et culturelle marquee principalement par l'affirmation d'une societe urbaine qui a revendique une modernite tout en se tournant avec nostalgie dans des expressions rituelles et traditionnelles originaires du milieu rural duquel elle etait issue. Cet article etudie la naissance, la vie et le declin du bolero, un genre musical populaire qui …
Seen to Be Heard? Gender, Voice, and Body in Television Advertisements
A quantitative content analysis of 1,055 television ads reveals that male voiceovers outnumber female voiceovers 4:1. As has been the case for decades in television, a man is much more likely to serve as the disembodied and objective voice of authority, expertise, and reason. However, a woman's voice is twice as likely to be heard if her body is also represented on screen. Based on that finding, the authors argue that scopocentric sexism influenc…
Field to Media
In seeking to respond to the environmental challenges of the Anthropocene era, our research team of five scholars, including faculty and advanced graduate students, along with each of their collaborators in their respective research sites, has come together to explore the possibilities of a methodology that we call Field to Media. Field to Media involves using video production to study and amplify ecomusical responses to climate change, pollution…
Call and Response
Research Article| July 01 2020 Call and Response: SEM President’s Roundtable 2018, “Humanities’ Responses to the Anthropocene” Timothy Cooley; Timothy Cooley (Chair) Timothy J. Cooley is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He teaches courses on vernacular and popular musics in Central European and the USA. His edited volume, Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomu…
Parachute Anthropology
Hannerz, Ulf. Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, Anthony T. Carter, ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 272 pp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." —Polonius in William Shakespeare's Hamlet Foreign News is an "ecology of reporting," a study of the lives and cultural worlds of international correspondents. Hannerz makes the press' backstage practices and logistic…
Teaching Anthropology through Performance
News photography and indigenous peoples
In March, 1991, a “Continental Encounter” of indigenous peoples took place in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. This paper examines the photographic coverage of that event, based on interviews with the journalists, observation of their work at the Encounter, and analysis of published reports and photos. The news coverage is divided into three phases: expectations (in search of the exotic “type”), transformations (rethinking “Indianness”), and negation (…
Commentary
The following comments are in response to the commentary which appeared in the Fall 1992 issue under the title "Making Use of the Media" (PA 14[4]:2,33-37).—P.J.H
News photography and indigenous peoples
In March, 1991, a “Continental Encounter” of indigenous peoples took place in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. This paper examines the photographic coverage of that event, based on interviews with the journalists, observation of their work at the Encounter, and analysis of published reports and photos. The news coverage is divided into three phases: expectations (in search of the exotic “type”), transformations (rethinking “Indianness”), and negation (…
The marginal majority
This article explores gender politics in the Salvadoran Press Corps Association (SPCA), starting with analysis of the Hemingwayesque myths and ritual performances which dominate corps culture. While men use these rituals as a means of escaping the stultifying disciplines of corporate press institutions, women correspondents experience them as yet another layer of stultifying discipline, an obstacle in the way of individual and collective attempts…
The Bolero
A la suite de la revolution politique du Mexique en 1910-1917, on peut evoquer une reelle revolution sociale et culturelle marquee principalement par l'affirmation d'une societe urbaine qui a revendique une modernite tout en se tournant avec nostalgie dans des expressions rituelles et traditionnelles originaires du milieu rural duquel elle etait issue. Cet article etudie la naissance, la vie et le declin du bolero, un genre musical populaire qui …
Teaching Anthropology through Performance
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Parachute Anthropology
Hannerz, Ulf. Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, Anthony T. Carter, ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 272 pp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't." —Polonius in William Shakespeare's Hamlet Foreign News is an "ecology of reporting," a study of the lives and cultural worlds of international correspondents. Hannerz makes the press' backstage practices and logistic…
Musical Ritual in Mexico City
Musical Ritual in Mexico City
Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River
In 1941, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) hired Woody Guthrie to record music for a film promoting dams along the Columbia River. A fierce debate rages today concerning the dams. Both sides reference Guthrie's music and image in order to bolster their arguments. An examination of contracts, diaries, lyric sheets, letters, interviews, and other documents housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives reveals that the folk icon's relationship to the…
Is the Political Troubadour Dead? Markets Versus Politics in Local Music
This Land
On Sunday 18 January 2009, Pete Seeger led Barack Obama and an audience of 400,000 people in a spirited performance of “This Land is Your Land” at the We Are One concert. Seeger reinserted three verses that have been edited out of most public versions of Woody Guthrie's iconic anthem. Seeger's performance continued a long tradition of the song working on two levels: as a simple patriotic anthem for most listeners and a critical rallying cry for t…
Teaching Ethnographic Journalism
Ecomusicology, Music Studies, and IASPM
Ecomusicologists have answered Philip Tagg's call to develop a more interdisciplinary and interprofessional "music studies." Ecomusicologists are demonstrating an exceptional openness to theories and methodologies generated from outside their home disciplines. Of course, no single transdisciplinary conversation will solve all of the problems Philip Tagg outlines in "Caught on the Back Foot: epistemic inertia and visible music" (2011). However, ec…
Seen to Be Heard? Gender, Voice, and Body in Television Advertisements
A quantitative content analysis of 1,055 television ads reveals that male voiceovers outnumber female voiceovers 4:1. As has been the case for decades in television, a man is much more likely to serve as the disembodied and objective voice of authority, expertise, and reason. However, a woman's voice is twice as likely to be heard if her body is also represented on screen. Based on that finding, the authors argue that scopocentric sexism influenc…
Environmental communication and the public sphere
As the number of environmental communication (EC) courses expands, it is important to consider the available pedagogical literature. Robert Cox’s Environmental Communication in the Public Sphere (2
Political Rock
Discipline and Publish
Terror and Control
The Salvadoran military placed restrictions on the movement of journalists throughout much of the war. During the latter half of the conflict, these restrictions were codified into law as the salvoconducto system. Reporters wishing to cover events in the fmln-held territories, which the Salvadoran military called “conflicted zones,” were obligated to obtain a “safe conduct” pass. The effects of the salvoconducto system were wide-ranging. First, i…
A Team, B Team
Most editors demand that news stories include the perspectives, or at least the quoted statements, of official United States government sources. As a result of these pressures, intimate access to The Embassy is crucial to most speca journalists. Most speca staff journalists received their degrees from prestigious universities in the eastern United States or Britain, including Harvard, Cornell, Oxford, and Cambridge. Most of the A Teams ’ editors …
War Photography
No journalist becomes a war correspondent without some attraction to war and violence. The photographers’ proximity to danger adds a daredevil mystique to their work and earns them a special niche in the profession. As Robin Anderson explains in his definitive study of photographic coverage of the Salvadoran war, “there is a tendency to think of the photographer as a hero”. Almost everyone in El Salvador, journalists included, were aware that the…
Conclusion
The extreme social injustice and fear that defines Salvadoran culture, is missing from the news. Without it, none of the surface violence makes sense. The war was represented as a clash of ideologies, rather than a symptom of much more profound social ills. Now the war is gone, but the injustice survives and multiplies. To care is to butt a person&s;s head against an unfeeling bureaucracy and reporting conventions whose very purpose is to produce…
Practice
Much of the Salvadoran war was reported by parachuters. The paratrooping reporters converged on El Salvador whenever a major news event took place, most notably the 1982, 1984, and 1989 elections and the 1989 fmln offensive. During the elections of 1989, for example, 784 reporters registered with coprefa.speca, the permanent and semi-permanently stationed journalists, were overwhelmed on such occasions by descending hordes of transient correspond…
Epilogue
As I was writing this, Carmelo (his real name was Heleno Castro) was shot and killed. On October 30, he and another man got into a heated exchange following a minor collision of their two cars. Carmelo’s killer was a wealthy landowner. Carmelo was the head of the fmln land commission at the time of his death. Human rights organizations, North American academics, and journalists alike have written-off Carmelo’s murder as “nonpolitical.”
Alonzo’s Dream
Alonzo was one of thirty-four Salvadoran journalists in speca. He and his compatriots comprised about 42% of the international press corps during the latter part of the war. A wave of police sirens pierces through the chilled night rain as steam rises from warm pavement around Alonzo’s feet, a perfectly apocalyptic scene. The earnest young reporter is intent upon exposing the Salvadoran military’s participation in the illegal, yet widespread, pro…
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