WOMENST 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sister Sledge, Disco, Angela Davis
10 Apr 2019
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Popular music and the politics of hope: queer and feminist interventions. The politics of popular music, whether they be about hope or anything else, resides the discourses created around the music, and so much more (12). In these instances, being enabled by participation in popular music had tangible effects on the broader world and how we interpret our individual roles therein . We can both recall times in the past when we relied on these many facets of empowerment) when faced with limited and limiting social realities (12-13) Contemporary popular music engenders a sense of belonging, a language for political action, and a sense of alternative for the world in which we live . In social reality structured by patriarchy, heteronormativity, white supremacy, feminist political action. As angela davis argues art can function as a sensitizer seeking to effect radical social change" (14-15) (13). Develops out of funk and soul music of the late 1960s.
