Amanda Nell Edgar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1462238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Nell Edgar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda Nell |
| FAMILY NAME | Edgar |
| SIGNATURE | EDGAR A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8988-7557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Summer of 2020
Exploring a monumental season of Black Lives Matter support, The Summer of 2020 documents the meanings, motivations, and experiences of movement participants during the tumultuous period following George Floyd’s public murder at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin. The Summer of 2020 is packed with interviews with real activists–from seasoned organizers to first time protesters–revealing the complexity of taking a stand, especially in…
Reading Moonlight , reading the other
This article brings a quare perspective to Moonlight’s reception. We argue that many straight viewers identified the film’s representational innovations but resisted its call to interrogate their preconceived notions about Black queerness. Instead, many audiences focused on others’ interpretations of the film. They perceived Black viewers as homophobic, demonstrating third-person effect, and used that stance to demonstrate their own progressive p…
Race talk, fandom, and the legacy of plantation culture in the NFL player protests
In August 2016, San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand during the United States’ national anthem. Throughout the National Football League’s 2016–2017 season, Kaepernick and other NFL players acting in solidarity maintained their refusal to stand for the national anthem. We explore NFL fans’ reactions to and feelings about the player protests inspired by Colin Kaepernick with interviews with 41 participants conducted be…
Situated Listening
Using the murder of Magdiel Sanchez as a case study, we argue that rhetoric’s future must embrace practices of situated listening. We follow scholars of color, feminist theorists, and disability advocates who have long argued for the practices of ethical listening, adding that the imperative to listen extends beyond the listening ear, accounting for the totality of the body and its environmental and contextual positions. By reaching beyond the de…
Everybody’s hard times are different”
Recognizing the complex interplay between country music, lifestyle, and identity, and the disparate nature of these texts and their producers, we center our analysis of the politics of contemporary “country” in the accounts of country music listeners. Through this lens, “country” foregrounds a portrait of precarious labor and white rural economies. Precarity is held up as aspirational, facilitated by the relative structural support of whiteness a…
I Think of Him as an Ancestor”
We consider the ways intimacy with pop cultural icons works as a type of heritage. Based on interviews with Tupac Shakur fans about his recent biopic and their histories with the rapper’s music, we demonstrate the emotional investments fans have in the artist’s image and their individual and communal connections to his memory. The 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me (AEoM) sparked public discussion of Shakur’s legacy and prompted his fans to reflect on th…
A genosonic analysis of Isil and US counter-extremism video messages
Analyses of extremist video messages typically focus on their discursive content. Using the case of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), this study instead draws upon the emerging subfield of genosonic analysis to understand the allure of extremist videos, as well as the ineffectiveness of US video messages designed to ‘counter violent extremism’ (CVE). Through a genosonic analysis of three high-profile ISIL videos and five popular US Sta…
She invited other people to that space”
We argue that place offers an effective framework for connecting popular culture with social justice narratives by exploring audience interpretations of Lemonade in 2016’s tumultuous racial climate. Working from interviews with 35 of Lemonade’s listeners/viewers regarding their understanding of the album, we argue that audience members used Lemonade to plot spaces of racial pride, community, and equality. Supporting previous audience studies’ fin…
The rhetoric of auscultation
This essay argues that corporeal sound, including the spoken voice and the auscultated heartbeat, can be understood as material rhetoric, and that material rhetoric, by extension, should be understood as both a force and a networked fluid. I illustrate this argument through the case study of abortion practices and policies, arguing that both mandated heartbeat auscultation and physician speech-and-display provisions represent the forceful fluidit…
Subordinating sound to screen
This article combines a sound studies perspective with a television industry approach by placing interview data from prominent television music supervisors in conversation with textual analysis of their projects. Using interview and textual data from cathartic moments in television dramas like Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, and Breaking Bad, I argue that the structural logics of subordination in the American television industry contribute to an imagoc…
Not Just the Levees Broke”
This essay proposes the notion of the “jazz vernacular” as a tool specific to the Creole culture in New Orleans for understanding racial discourses of disposability both geographically and historically. We argue that the jazz vernacular is a discourse structured by musical repertoire. The jazz vernacular provides a channel for the historical pain of the black diaspora by playing in the background, both literally and figuratively, of communication…
R&B Rhetoric and Victim-Blaming Discourses
This article offers a contextual perspective on the rhetorical mechanisms of victim blaming in public sphere discourses. By supplementing Burke's dramatistic rhetorical analysis with critical race theory, I trace the changing popular press conversation from Chris Brown's 2009 assault on Rihanna through coverage of their relationship in 2012 Brown , J. , & Stephen , S. ( 2012 , May 3 ). Rihanna takes things in hand ... Daily Star. Retrieved from h…
Music in Television
James Deaville, New York: Routledge, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-415-88136-4; 978-0-415-88135-7; 978-0-203-83101-4 244 pp, $32.95 (pb), $100.00 (hb), $12.59 (eb) While television's content carries with it st
She invited other people to that space”
We argue that place offers an effective framework for connecting popular culture with social justice narratives by exploring audience interpretations of Lemonade in 2016’s tumultuous racial climate. Working from interviews with 35 of Lemonade’s listeners/viewers regarding their understanding of the album, we argue that audience members used Lemonade to plot spaces of racial pride, community, and equality. Supporting previous audience studies’ fin…
A genosonic analysis of Isil and US counter-extremism video messages
Analyses of extremist video messages typically focus on their discursive content. Using the case of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), this study instead draws upon the emerging subfield of genosonic analysis to understand the allure of extremist videos, as well as the ineffectiveness of US video messages designed to ‘counter violent extremism’ (CVE). Through a genosonic analysis of three high-profile ISIL videos and five popular US Sta…
R&B Rhetoric and Victim-Blaming Discourses
This article offers a contextual perspective on the rhetorical mechanisms of victim blaming in public sphere discourses. By supplementing Burke's dramatistic rhetorical analysis with critical race theory, I trace the changing popular press conversation from Chris Brown's 2009 assault on Rihanna through coverage of their relationship in 2012 Brown , J. , & Stephen , S. ( 2012 , May 3 ). Rihanna takes things in hand ... Daily Star. Retrieved from h…
Music in Television
James Deaville, New York: Routledge, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-415-88136-4; 978-0-415-88135-7; 978-0-203-83101-4 244 pp, $32.95 (pb), $100.00 (hb), $12.59 (eb) While television's content carries with it st
Reading Moonlight , reading the other
This article brings a quare perspective to Moonlight’s reception. We argue that many straight viewers identified the film’s representational innovations but resisted its call to interrogate their preconceived notions about Black queerness. Instead, many audiences focused on others’ interpretations of the film. They perceived Black viewers as homophobic, demonstrating third-person effect, and used that stance to demonstrate their own progressive p…
I Think of Him as an Ancestor”
We consider the ways intimacy with pop cultural icons works as a type of heritage. Based on interviews with Tupac Shakur fans about his recent biopic and their histories with the rapper’s music, we demonstrate the emotional investments fans have in the artist’s image and their individual and communal connections to his memory. The 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me (AEoM) sparked public discussion of Shakur’s legacy and prompted his fans to reflect on th…
Music in Television
James Deaville, New York: Routledge, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-415-88136-4; 978-0-415-88135-7; 978-0-203-83101-4 244 pp, $32.95 (pb), $100.00 (hb), $12.59 (eb) While television's content carries with it st
R&B Rhetoric and Victim-Blaming Discourses
This article offers a contextual perspective on the rhetorical mechanisms of victim blaming in public sphere discourses. By supplementing Burke's dramatistic rhetorical analysis with critical race theory, I trace the changing popular press conversation from Chris Brown's 2009 assault on Rihanna through coverage of their relationship in 2012 Brown , J. , & Stephen , S. ( 2012 , May 3 ). Rihanna takes things in hand ... Daily Star. Retrieved from h…
Not Just the Levees Broke”
This essay proposes the notion of the “jazz vernacular” as a tool specific to the Creole culture in New Orleans for understanding racial discourses of disposability both geographically and historically. We argue that the jazz vernacular is a discourse structured by musical repertoire. The jazz vernacular provides a channel for the historical pain of the black diaspora by playing in the background, both literally and figuratively, of communication…
A genosonic analysis of Isil and US counter-extremism video messages
Analyses of extremist video messages typically focus on their discursive content. Using the case of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), this study instead draws upon the emerging subfield of genosonic analysis to understand the allure of extremist videos, as well as the ineffectiveness of US video messages designed to ‘counter violent extremism’ (CVE). Through a genosonic analysis of three high-profile ISIL videos and five popular US Sta…
She invited other people to that space”
We argue that place offers an effective framework for connecting popular culture with social justice narratives by exploring audience interpretations of Lemonade in 2016’s tumultuous racial climate. Working from interviews with 35 of Lemonade’s listeners/viewers regarding their understanding of the album, we argue that audience members used Lemonade to plot spaces of racial pride, community, and equality. Supporting previous audience studies’ fin…
The rhetoric of auscultation
This essay argues that corporeal sound, including the spoken voice and the auscultated heartbeat, can be understood as material rhetoric, and that material rhetoric, by extension, should be understood as both a force and a networked fluid. I illustrate this argument through the case study of abortion practices and policies, arguing that both mandated heartbeat auscultation and physician speech-and-display provisions represent the forceful fluidit…
Subordinating sound to screen
This article combines a sound studies perspective with a television industry approach by placing interview data from prominent television music supervisors in conversation with textual analysis of their projects. Using interview and textual data from cathartic moments in television dramas like Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, and Breaking Bad, I argue that the structural logics of subordination in the American television industry contribute to an imagoc…
I Think of Him as an Ancestor”
We consider the ways intimacy with pop cultural icons works as a type of heritage. Based on interviews with Tupac Shakur fans about his recent biopic and their histories with the rapper’s music, we demonstrate the emotional investments fans have in the artist’s image and their individual and communal connections to his memory. The 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me (AEoM) sparked public discussion of Shakur’s legacy and prompted his fans to reflect on th…
Everybody’s hard times are different”
Recognizing the complex interplay between country music, lifestyle, and identity, and the disparate nature of these texts and their producers, we center our analysis of the politics of contemporary “country” in the accounts of country music listeners. Through this lens, “country” foregrounds a portrait of precarious labor and white rural economies. Precarity is held up as aspirational, facilitated by the relative structural support of whiteness a…
Race talk, fandom, and the legacy of plantation culture in the NFL player protests
In August 2016, San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand during the United States’ national anthem. Throughout the National Football League’s 2016–2017 season, Kaepernick and other NFL players acting in solidarity maintained their refusal to stand for the national anthem. We explore NFL fans’ reactions to and feelings about the player protests inspired by Colin Kaepernick with interviews with 41 participants conducted be…
Situated Listening
Using the murder of Magdiel Sanchez as a case study, we argue that rhetoric’s future must embrace practices of situated listening. We follow scholars of color, feminist theorists, and disability advocates who have long argued for the practices of ethical listening, adding that the imperative to listen extends beyond the listening ear, accounting for the totality of the body and its environmental and contextual positions. By reaching beyond the de…
Reading Moonlight , reading the other
This article brings a quare perspective to Moonlight’s reception. We argue that many straight viewers identified the film’s representational innovations but resisted its call to interrogate their preconceived notions about Black queerness. Instead, many audiences focused on others’ interpretations of the film. They perceived Black viewers as homophobic, demonstrating third-person effect, and used that stance to demonstrate their own progressive p…
The Summer of 2020
Exploring a monumental season of Black Lives Matter support, The Summer of 2020 documents the meanings, motivations, and experiences of movement participants during the tumultuous period following George Floyd’s public murder at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin. The Summer of 2020 is packed with interviews with real activists–from seasoned organizers to first time protesters–revealing the complexity of taking a stand, especially in…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Music History and Culture (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works)