MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Newport Folk Festival, Janis Joplin, Pete Seeger
Document Summary
November 6, 2012: continuation of women in popular music. Social movements & popular music: social movements predicted in ephemeral cultural ways. Predicts tensions that are about to boil over: key question: working with so many constraints and in such male-dominated genres how do women pop stars find avenues for self-expression, talking back intertextually, like kitty wells. No women solo acts on the grand ole. Straight-up good at singing: virtuosity: ella fitzgerald, bessie smith playing the game better than anyone else. Ike and tina turner domestic figure to fetishized african-american. Critique of the commercialization of sexuality/the female body lyri- cally & through sighs (which can be both sexualized or agonistic): how women intervene in their own social situation. People begin to reject more radi- cally the roles that are pressed upon them in the 1960"s: janis joplin! Deviates form the image of the beautiful complacent female singer. Not a beautiful voice in the traditional white tradition.
