Protest Music in Response to the United States’ Oppressive Political Culture: An Analysis of Beyoncé\u27s Freedom and Janelle Monáe\u27s Americans [PDF]
, 2021 This paper aims to study a popular musical artist’s responsibility towards the empowerment of marginalized communities in the United States through an analysis of the songs “Freedom” by Beyoncé and “Americans” by Janelle Monáe.
Torrey, Jessica
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Performing Power, Pursuing Pause: Vocality, Identity, and Listenership in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer [PDF]
, 2021 This thesis evaluates the musical and cultural components of singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe's 2018 album and “emotion picture” Dirty Computer. I argue that Monáe engages audience members from all walks of life through her Afrofuturistic plotline ...
Bates, Morgan
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Let All the Children Boogie: Occult Presences Through the Musical Performances of Sun Ra, David Bowie, Magma, and Janelle Monáe [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis project is an interdisciplinary study of four popular musicians: Sun Ra, David Bowie, Christian Vander, and Janelle Monáe. These four performing artists work within science fiction and religion through the stories, music, and fantastic ...
Ramsey, William Christopher
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, 2020 A paper analyzing the respective audiovisual work of Björk and Janelle Monáe (i.e.
Kryzda, Cecilia
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Dirty Computers versus the New Jim Code: Janelle Monáe’s Datafied Performance [PDF]
, 2023 While digital data networks provide new opportunities for anti-racist creative production and activism, they also constitute a powerful surveillance network that reproduces and even exacerbates racist social structures.
Verhoeff, Nanna +3 more
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The Black Android, Janelle Monáe and Crossover Stardom: Race and Technology On-screen
Film-PhilosophyArtificial people, far from embodying the false promise of a post-racial future, come to be inscribed with signifiers of race across science fiction film and television.
Liam Rogers
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The Sonic Aesthetics of Protest: From Bob Dylan to Janelle Monáe
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde AnglophoneProtest music has long served as a medium through which artists voice dissent, mobilize communities, and reimagine political possibilities. From the acoustic clarity of the 1960s to the digital complexity of the present, the sound of protest has adapted ...
Antonio Francisco Alaminos-Fernández +1 more
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Electric Ladies in Playback The Android Antecedents of Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer [PDF]
, 2022 Playback, the process of separately recording actors’ images and voices in cinema and media, has a long history of cultural stereotyping. This article analyses how performers are typecast when media technicians manipulate sound/image synchronisation in ...
Skjerseth, Amy, AMY SKJERSETH
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Janelle Monáe; The Ultimate Space Maker
, 2016 In 2015 Viola Davis became the first Black woman to ever win an Emmy for best actress in a drama. In her acceptance speech she said, “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.
Kay, Nina
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Afrofuturism, African-American Music and Female Agency
, 2019 On November 10, 2018, Nathalie Aghoro has published an article entitled “Agency in the Afrofuturist Ontologies of Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe” in Open Cultural ...
Markin, Pablo, Pablo Markin
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