The closeness of the camera as it watches Nelson underscores this effect; viewers can literally see the beads of sweat on his brow, the spray of spittle as he enunciates in the glare of the stage lights. What posters are on the wall of my bedroom? After Bud's intro, Dexter makes love to the melody with an enveloping sound, adding some wry asides to remind us that, like all great artists, he remains the unmoved mover. The word appreciate, as a term for what public broadcasting audiences might do with televised musical performance, implied a hierarchy that positioned auditors and viewers as acolytes who received its message. They were even jumping off the speaker stacks on the side of the stage.
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