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Psycho Karaoke (review)

2003; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 55; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/tj.2003.0175

1086-332X

Rachel C. Lee,

Theater, Performance, and Music History

Psycho Karaoke, the latest offering from the Asian American sketch comedy team the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (18MMW), opens with one of the players asking the audience to recite the Pledge of Allegiance along with him. To demonstrate, he lifts his arm in a Nazi salute and shouts "Sieg Heil!" Incidentally, when the salute to the American flag was introduced in 1892, it featured this very posture. (During World War II, Congress revised the pledge to include the less historically loaded position of the hand over the heart.)