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Who Wields the Shield: Captain America and Transformative Fandom by DrOlShakes for copperbadge, sanura, idiopathicsmile
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)
01 Jun 2016
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This is a copy of an essay I wrote for my "Music and Literature" course. It examines six songs related to Captain America, beginning with the infamous Star Spangled Man with a Plan" and then fan-produced filk music, and how transformative fandom has influenced the Captain America and Steve Rogers identities.
"The importance of the individual Steve Rogers becomes relegated to the side when considering the power of the Captain America mythos yet at the same time, it is impossible to have Captain America without the individual. Taking both figures into consideration, transformative fandom has appropriated both the individual and the mythos into political statements offering subversive readings of a hegemonic cultural production."
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Sanura’s cover of the song takes the elements described in the fanfiction and sets them to music. Besides eliminating the answering repetition of “the star spangled man with a plan,” Sanura also alters the lyrics of other parts of the song. The cover shifts the focus from the nation at war with another country to being at war with itself: “we can’t ignore there’s a threat and a war from within,” a shift from the original lyric “…threat and a war we must win.” Another shift in focus is from the “other” to the “us” that occurs at the end of the song. The original version asks, “who’ll finish what they began,” which is answered, but Sanura’s cover ends with the question, left unanswered, “who’ll finish what we began?” The cover still claims a need for America to be saved, but rather than cite a foreign “other” as the enemy, the cover makes the enemy an introspective, ideological threat.
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!!!! relevant and well-written
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Great analysis. And I must explore the links in the comments!
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cap academic essay
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Steve Rodgers/Captain America filk links and fandom academia! :) :) :)
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this is v cool, very interesting reading
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incredible Cap meta + filk + MCU-verse historical analysis and it's amazing