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Dangerous
A discussion of Michael Jackson's album \"Dangerous\", including its political, racial and sexual themes.
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Calling Ellen Willis: Quarreling with the 'Radicals,' Loving Consumer Culture, and Hearing Women's Voices
The first half of this book is, among other things, an extended polemic against standard leftist notions about advanced capitalism-that the consumer economy makes us slaves to commodities, that the function of the mass media is to manipulate our fantasies so we will equate fulfillment with buying the system's products. In the rock music canon the artists that have been taken up in the critical discourse as centrally important are by and large still white and male and, further, conform to a particular construction of \"authenticity,\" which, among other things, works hard to make it look as though the artists as well as the writers are aligned with leftist politics and mind-over-body musical values, including the disparagement of consumerism (in which they nonetheless participate). I suspect that what lies at the heart of objections is that in its allegiance to commercial culture this experience of music does not appear to enrich our lives in deep and meaningful ways.
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Popular music performance and cultural memory Queen: Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, July 13, 1985
As Neal Ullestad has noted, 'Live Aid was first and foremost a media event of the highest order. The aid, the music, and the musicians were quite secondary to the event itself'. A further difficulty in writing about Live Aid is that there was never a commercial video or soundtrack album released and the acquisition of a video or audio recording has, until recently, been quite difficult. Queen's performance comes a few hours into this documentary. They were introduced at Wembley by two British comedians, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones, dressed as policemen. Thus, before seeing Queen's performance, it is remembered for the viewer as the performance that best achieved the primary goal of the event, according to one of its senior organizers. After 'Radio Ga-Ga' comes the first break in the music, and Mercury goes to the front of the stage to engage the audience in a round of call and response, using musical gestures derived from classical music.
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Rethinking Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Led Zeppelin: A Woman's View of Pleasure and Power in Hard Rock
Fast discusses the importance of the appearance of the woman in Led Zeppelin's documentary film \"The Song Remains the Same\" during the song \"Since I've Been Loving You.\" To dismiss the woman from the film is to continue to distort or erase women's experience of this music and to allow a narrowly and rigidly construed view of masculinity to govern the discourse about it.
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