MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Parents Music Resource Center, Judith Butler, Moshing
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It is only relatively recently that popular music performance has come under sustained academic scrutiny, despite the importance of performance to music. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity (1990) Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of sex" (1993) Emerged in the late 1970"s/ early 80"s and is thought to be a representation of the earlier punk dance known as pogoing (longhurst p. 194) Pit suggests some type of battle or site of rebellion. Repetition of moves has impact on nervous system; psychological or neuropsychological factors are prevalent. For musicians, one often comes at the expense of the other. One form of capital can be converted to another in society. Economic capital may be used to provide children with cultural enrichment via education, exposure to arts, etc. (see longhurst p. 198) Heavy metal viewed as a threat to youth. Gore conflates sex and violence, which have in common their threat to parental control (walter, 1993)- see longhurst p. 212.