Film and Screen Studies Professor Authors Article on the Phenomenon of Chappell Roan
Professor of Film and Screen Studies Catherine Zimmer, PhD, authored an article in Avidly (a channel of the LA Review of Books) titled 鶹ý鶹ý in which she discussed the 鶹ýphenomenon鶹ý of the singer-songwriter, which includes, among other things, 鶹ýan earnest and passionate longing for the analog,鶹ý something Zimmer feels the artist herself embodies.
In Zimmer鶹ýs view, Roan鶹ýs work is not necessarily about acoustic instrumentation, and it goes beyond nostalgia. It is 鶹ýinhabitable鶹ý and 鶹ýrelational.鶹ý
She said, 鶹ýAnalog, in this instance, signals a certain type of materiality and presence. But the self-evidence of the analog includes constant reference to itself within history, within culture, within what phenomenology鶹ýa field of philosophy most simply defined by the notion that existence is always situated and relational鶹ýwould call a 鶹ýlifeworld.鶹ý
The 'phenomenon' of Chappell Roan is one that should be recognized as such because she embodies her own talent so well at the same time that it is clear that she is a canvas for performative transformation, cultural interaction, and productive, communal spectatorship.鶹ý