All her friends call her Alaska: the cultural politics of locating Olvido Gara in and beyond Madrid’s Movida<sup>*</sup>

Wheeler, Duncan

doi:10.1080/14636204.2016.1240436

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“…Since intellectuals in Spain tend to openly reject popular culture (Wheeler, 2016: 362) and reality TV in particular, ‘proving’ that Etxebarria knew the rules and codes of reality shows was a way to lower her status by questioning her distinction (Bourdieu, 1984). This argument also furthered the accusations of pretentiousness (Biressi and Nunn, 2005: 151–152), depicting her as someone who wanted to appear ‘superior’ but was actually just like us .…”

Section: Capitals and Rules Of Reality Tvmentioning

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From the literary field to reality TV: The perils of downward celebrity migration

Oliva

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article explores ‘downward celebrity migration’, that is, when a celebrity enters a field that is less legitimate than their field of origin. It does so by studying the case of Lucía Etxebarria, a Spanish literary celebrity who participated in a celebrity reality TV show ( Campamento de Verano (‘Summer Camp’)) in 2013. Using Bourdieu’s concepts of field and capital, this article analyses the ambiguous hierarchical position that Etxebarria occupied in the programme and how she was evaluated according to the specific rules of reality TV: authenticity, ordinariness, performance and submission to the programme’s authority. Etxebarria’s presence in the programme stirred up a heated debate about social, cultural and fame hierarchies, and she became the target of attacks that tried to undermine her symbolic capital through personal humiliation.

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From the literary field to reality TV: The perils of downward celebrity migration

Oliva

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The most significant contributions to this are the special issue "Spanish Popular Music Studies" (2009) of this journal, edited by Silvia Bermúdez and Jorge Pérez, and the collective volume Made in Spain: Studies in Popular Music, coedited by Silvia Martínez and Héctor Fouce (2013). Although it is impossible to offer a comprehensive list of the scholars who have made notable contributions to this field, the work of Kiko Mora and Eduardo Viñuela (2013), Fernán del Val, Javier Noya and C. Martín Pérez Colman (2014), Celsa Alonso González (2010), Duncan Wheeler (2016Wheeler ( , 2018 and Stuart Green (2013) is also worthy of mention. Recent studies on Spanish film have addressed the significance of the soundtrack in Spanish cinema.…”

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Spanish sound studies

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Whittaker

2019

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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Recent decades have seen a growing interest in "sound studies", a field of study that addresses the role of the auditory in culture and society. Sound studies is best understood as encompassing a broad range of critical approaches to the study of sound, a category that is considered here in both its physical and cultural dimensions. The philosophical writing of R. Murray Schafer (1994) and Walter Ong (1967), as well as the theories of musicologist Jacques Attali (1985) on the political potential of noise, provided some of the most influential early work on sound studies. Since the 1990s, scholars such as Emily Thompson (2002), Douglas Kahn (1999), Brandon LaBelle (2010) and Michael Bull and Les Back (2003) have explored the relationship between sound, architecture and modernization as means of historicizing cultural moments and crises. Researchers on sound technologies and media, such as Jonathan Sterne (2003), Rick Altman (2004) and Jacob Smith (2008), have made similarly significant contributions to the field, exploring the cultural origins and development of sound technologies. Their influence has been felt in the form of the appearance of academic journals dedicated to this field, including Sound Studies, The Journal of Sonic Studies and Sound Effects. Despite the sheer variety of disciplines and scholars that loosely belong to sound studies, they are generally unified by their shared aim to disrupt the epistemological dominance of the visual in Western culture. Bull and Back, for instance, have recently called for a "democracy of the senses" in which "no sense is privileged in relation to its counterparts" (2003, 2). As scholars make this shift, sound should not so much be studied in isolation or to the exclusion of other senses, but as a means of reinvigorating our understanding of the ways in which all the senseshearing, but also touching and feelingoperate together as a whole. Contributions to sound studies come from fields as varied as sociology, anthropology, history, visual studies, musicology, architecture, literary studies and, perhaps most significantly, geography, often simultaneously bringing together elements from more than one of these fields in surprising and productive ways. If the material properties of sound are elusive and ambiguous, as it is able to pass through borders and walls, so too are the boundaries of sound studies, making the field diverse and interdisciplinary in scope. This spatial metaphor finds its richest expression in the dialogue between sound studies and geography, an area of research has been pioneered by Susan Smith (1997), Ben Highmore (2002) and John Connell and Chris Gibson (2003). This work considers the ways that sound contributes to the production of space, thereby drawing attention to how, for instance, the sonic marks out and transforms the boundaries between public and private space.

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Accelerated rhythms and sonic routes: mapping the sound cultures ofbakalao

Whittaker

2019

Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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All her friends call her Alaska: the cultural politics of locating Olvido Gara in and beyond Madrid’s Movida^*

Cited by 5 publications

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From the literary field to reality TV: The perils of downward celebrity migration

From the literary field to reality TV: The perils of downward celebrity migration

Spanish sound studies

Accelerated rhythms and sonic routes: mapping the sound cultures ofbakalao

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All her friends call her Alaska: the cultural politics of locating Olvido Gara in and beyond Madrid’s Movida*

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From the literary field to reality TV: The perils of downward celebrity migration

From the literary field to reality TV: The perils of downward celebrity migration

Spanish sound studies

Accelerated rhythms and sonic routes: mapping the sound cultures ofbakalao

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All her friends call her Alaska: the cultural politics of locating Olvido Gara in and beyond Madrid’s Movida^*