Going Through the Motions: American Bodies in Pharrell Williams’s “24 Hours of Happy”

The video promoting Pharrell Williams’s 2013 hit “Happy” is unusual: it runs continuously for 24 hours and displays a succession of around 400 people dancing to the song and often singing its lyrics and displaying with their bodies and facial expressions the spirit of happiness that the song epitomi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claude Chastagner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2018-11-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/9358