Do not underestimate the power of a single voice to make or break an election. The power is not in the words themselves; it is in the sonic experience. Everyone has seen—and heard—mainstream media news reduced to pellets of information called “sound bites.” We rabbity news consumers meekly nibble on these empty-calorie hors d’œuvres because [...]
Posts Tagged ‘McCain’
The Art of Politics: It’s in the Voice
Posted in Audio work, Corporate Media, Performance, Popular Culture, Theater, tagged colloquialisms, David Letterman, McCain, media, Obama, regional accents, Sarah Palen, speech, voice on October 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Speaking of Performance…
Posted in Comedy, Performance, Popular Culture, Television, tagged Annie Sprinkle, Comedy, McCain, Obama, Palin, parody, politics on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Performance art, as a practice, may have found its fullest realization in the work of Saturday Night Live (SNL)’s Tina Fey. Fey’s channeling of Sarah Palin’s character is uncanny. In her re-staging of Katie Couric’s Palin interview and Palin’s performance at the Vice Presidential “debate,” Fey has merged the absurd-in-the-real to the really absurd, producing [...]
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