MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Judith Butler, Postmodern Philosophy, Gender Trouble
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Identity: gender and heterosexuality, analysis tool, post structuralist: movement of philosophy after 1975, call on a larger scope, post-modern philosophy, modern era characterized by 1880 to 1970. Performativity 2: gender is dominated by heterosexuality/sexual preference, representation vs construction, gender is constructed which is not supposed to exist. Electric guitar: symbolizes intrusion and excitement, low culture instrument, appeals to youth, became integrated with symbolism of man which later became a phallic signal with its aggressive playing style male dominance. Rock: r and b continued: challenges notion of gender, boogie woogie tradition, style of piano playing from the early 1940s, repeated bass line with riffs with the right hand. Blue moon by elvis: radio listeners couldn"t tell if elvis is black or what dewey philips never made it clear on his radio station. Interviewd by dewey (about attending humes high school) = all white school. Buddy holly and the crickets: permissible = clean cut.
