Rhetoric Review Jun 2010

A Apologia: The Transcendence of the Dixie Chicks

Emil B. Towner Texas Tech University

Abstract

In the mid 1980s, Union Carbide used the apologia strategy of transcendence with mixed results—repairing some relationship while harming others. Two decades later the Dixie Chicks's use of transcendence revealed a similar dichotomy. Using ideographic analysis, the author examines (1) why transcendence appeals to one audience while alienating another and (2) how social values are shaped in the process. Ultimately, the author argues that the Dixie Chicks's strategy of transcendence appealed to the ideograph <Patriotic> and in doing so constructed a concretized—and polarizing—definition of what it means to be a patriotic American during times of war.

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Rhetoric Review
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2010-06-23
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10.1080/07350198.2010.485969
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