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Doctoral Colloquium:听Luke Riedlinger (Musicology)聽

Title: Performing Americanness: Nationalism and International Strategy in Popular Music, 1970-1975

This presentation explores how popular music artists strategically performed national identity in new ways to exploit emerging opportunities in the international popular music market. The articulation of 鈥淎mericanness鈥� as a normative hegemonic identification functioned as a crucial mechanism through which artists made their music legible and marketable across borders during a moment of pre-eminent, expanding access to new international markets at the beginning of the 1970s. Using Elton John as a central case study, I trace how discourses of rock authenticity shaped his strategy for breaking into the American market in 1971. The intersection between rock authenticity and Americanness reveals the extent to which genres made national identifications legible and citable in a way that was uniquely lucrative for artists looking to position their music in relation to new national and international audiences. I reflect on how Americanness as a normative identification continues to shape contemporary ideas about the notion of being an 鈥渋nternational鈥� artist.

Luke Riedlinger聽is a PhD candidate in Musicology. His dissertation explores a series of enduring connections between musical styles and national identities that continue to shape the sound and scale of the global popular music industry that we know today. His work on popular music and jazz has been published in聽Popular Music History聽补苍诲听Jazz & Culture听箩辞耻谤苍补濒蝉.

The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.