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DESCRIPTION:Doctoral Colloquium: Luke Riedlinger (Musicology) \n\nTitle: Pe
 rforming Americanness: Nationalism and International Strategy in Popular M
 usic\, 1970-1975\n\nThis presentation explores how popular music artists s
 trategically performed national identity in new ways to exploit emerging o
 pportunities in the international popular music market. The articulation o
 f “Americanness” as a normative hegemonic identification functioned as a c
 rucial mechanism through which artists made their music legible and market
 able across borders during a moment of pre-eminent\, expanding access to n
 ew international markets at the beginning of the 1970s. Using Elton John a
 s a central case study\, I trace how discourses of rock authenticity shape
 d his strategy for breaking into the American market in 1971. The intersec
 tion between rock authenticity and Americanness reveals the extent to whic
 h genres made national identifications legible and citable in a way that w
 as uniquely lucrative for artists looking to position their music in relat
 ion to new national and international audiences. I reflect on how American
 ness as a normative identification continues to shape contemporary ideas a
 bout the notion of being an “international” artist.\n\nLuke Riedlinger is 
 a PhD candidate in Musicology. His dissertation explores a series of endur
 ing connections between musical styles and national identities that contin
 ue 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 Po
 pular Music History and Jazz & Culture journals.\n\nThe Doctoral Colloquiu
 m is open to all.\n
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LOCATION:A-832\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
 1E3\, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Luke Riedlinger
URL:/music/channels/event/doctoral-colloquium-music-lu
 ke-riedlinger-367701
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