In an era of scholarship greatly oriented to area studies or simplified categorisations suited to narrow disciplinary categories, Áine Mangaoang’s Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video defies expectations by bringing together multiple threads in transdisciplinary ways. The title does very little to allude to the author’s focused and embraced complexity in speaking to the topic. This is not a book on a singular cultural text, namely, Thriller, a 2007 uploaded YouTube video in which 1,700 prisoners of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center perform a highly choreographed interpretation of Michael Jackson’s 1982 infamous music video/short film.¹ Nor is it a book on the postcolonial gaze of Philippine internet celebrity and the varied multiple rippling effects of popular music as mediated in contemporary globalised cultures. It goes beyond interrogations into the questionable practices within the prison industrial complex in Cebu, a southern province of a nation with complicated histories of multiple colonisation by Spain and the United States. Dangerous Mediations does much more by taking close readings of audiovisual mediations that Mangaoang describes as holding the ability to ‘render visible historical and contemporary connections, and colonial legacies that would otherwise remain invisible’ (p. 12).

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主题书评：危险的冥想：菲律宾监狱录像带中的流行音乐ÁineMangaoang

在一个学术研究的时代，它主要面向领域研究或适合狭窄学科类别的简化分类，ÁineMangaoang的《危险的冥想：菲律宾监狱录影带中的流行音乐》通过跨学科的方式汇集了多条线索，超出了人们的期望。标题很少暗示作者在谈论该话题时所关注的重点和所包含的复杂性。这不是一本关于单一文化文字的书，即《颤栗》（Thriller），这是一部2007年上传的YouTube视频，其中1,700名宿雾省拘留和康复中心的囚犯对迈克尔·杰克逊1982年臭名昭著的音乐视频/短片进行了精心编排的解释。^1个它也不是关于菲律宾互联网名人的后殖民凝视以及当代全球化文化中传播的流行音乐的多种多重涟漪效应的书。不仅限于审讯，还涉及宿务的监狱工业区的可疑行为，该国南部的一个省有着西班牙和美国多次殖民的复杂历史，该国历史悠久。危险中介采取的视听中介的密切读数Mangaoang描述为控股能力“渲染可见历史和现代的连接，和殖民遗产，否则将保持无形”（第12页）做得更多。