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I learned a lot this week. I learned through the peer review process that I tend to repeat words a lot in my writing. In order to make my writing more advanced, I need to use synonyms or rephrase sentences. I also need to include more imagery in my writing to help the reader be able to visualize what I am saying. I also learned a lot about my writing process. I tend to procrastinate starting writing pieces. This delays the essay and also makes it so that I have less time to edit my essays. I learned about paragraph structure and the importance of making sure that every paragraph has one cohesive main idea. This is something I had never really payed attention to before. Step Three: Wikipedia article concept: Feminism in music Step Five:
3) Third-Wave Feminism and the Need to Reweave the Nature/Culture Duality by Colleen Mack-Canty in 2004 Step Six: Article 1) This article is about the hip-hop feminism movement. It talks about what the purpose of this movement and how it attempts to counteracts the misogynistic culture of rap. It also talks extensively about why we, as consumers of media, should care. Music holds heavy importance in our society, and it is important to recognize it as a catalyst for social change. We often disregard how important music is in our culture. I will include a section on feminism in hip hop. “Using culturally and generationally relevant frames of reference, hip-hop feminists are able to make large systemic issues such as racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, etc. intelligible to black women and girls, just as second-wave black feminists were able to do in the 1970s and '80s with mainstream white American feminism.” “Just as other black American feminists have chosen to engage other modes of cultural production that are inimical to the development of black women's subjectivity, hip-hop feminists refuse to turn away from difficult and volatile engagements with hip-hop.” Article 2) This article focused on third wave feminism and how it relates to classical music. Many people don’t know how misogynistic the classical music industry has been in the past. It has been an industry mostly run by men. Women, empowered by recent events and culture changes, are starting to breakthrough the industry. I will include a section on feminism in classical music and the classical music industry. “Third-wavers -- born between 1965 and 1979, who came of age starting in the late 1980s -- "grew up with popular culture specifically targeted to a mass youth audience.... They were raised on the new consumer culture of the last two decades, and that fact has huge ramifications." “Power feminism, however, is not beneficial in its narrow worldview, ahistorical outlook, and exclusionist methodology. For practitioners of the second and third waves, the more we understand and learn from each other, the richer and more meaningful our work will be. For second-wavers, it means a better understanding of our students, present and recent, and how to forge meaningful conversations on music and culture.” Article 3) This article focused on the different feminist movements in recent history. It talked about the ecofeminist movement, third wave feminism, and postcolonial feminism. It gave some interesting information on Riot Grrrl, a rock group that helped move the feminist movement forward. I will include some background on feminism in my article. I think that would help the reader of my article gain some perspective. “Riot Grrrl, an independent young female rock group that began in the early 1990s, is seen by many who study girls' cultures in the United States as illustrative of this movement (Garrison 2000, 142). A network of riot grrrls was created from the fans of this music group, based largely on zines. Soon there were chapters across the United States.” “Instead of seeing girlhood as merely the passage to becoming women (who marry men), the Riot Grrrl performances are part of their project to free girls from the restrictive gender construction society imposes on them. Riot Grrrl works against patriarchal conditioning that tells girls to be silent and submissive at this time in their lives, allowing them instead to be angry, loud and aggressive.”
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Kira Vaughn
10/20/2016 02:40:46 pm
I liked your topic involving music because it is something that can relate to people on a very personal level and it is a staple part of our modern society. It is also interesting that it related to something I am discussing in another class, with the idea that music also has an influence on our identity and our appearance. Music is also great when discussing society because changes in the popularity of certain genres often mirror the changes rippling through society, as well as highlight generational differences. I wonder about how drastic the differences are between the reception of males and females in the music industry, including the art that they produce and their image in the public (tabloids, public performances, social media presence, etc.). For your Wikipedia entry, I would like to see expansion on women's roles in the music industry because the capitalistic ideals involved in that industry are heavily integrated into our society.
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10/21/2016 08:24:18 am
I really liked reading about your topic, regarding feminism in music, because it is a quite a relatable topic. There are many women in the music industry that have experienced a lot of prejudice because they are females. I learned that the world of classical music was literally run by men. I knew that even though women have definitely composed classical pieces some centuries ago, they do not get the recognition that they deserve. I wonder how the world of music became so sexist, where women actually had to start movements for their recognition in the music business. I would like to see which women you select as the empowering individuals who made a breakthrough in the music industry.
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November 2016
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