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American Idol Worship

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

The next American Idol will be announced tonight, and over 30 million viewers are expected to tune in for the occasion. We look into the reasons behind the frenzy with Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television and Katherine Meizel, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
» Katherine Meizel on American Idol


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