Liz kelly the ringer pdf#
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In this article, I focus on anglophone North American, European, and Australasian feminisms and musics as they are examined in popular music studies and musicology. I have chosen to focus on issues rather than figures, traditions, or genres, because these issues are relevant to musicians, music writers, and music scholars, regardless of their specialization or discipline. I chose these specific foci because they are having the most significant impact on what feminism even is, how it is practiced, and how music and music writing is produced and received.

Liz kelly the ringer series#

Then, I discuss a series of current issues in feminist scholarship and activism: precarious labor, trans studies and trans feminisms, digital technologies, and sexual assault and harassment. First, I address two kinds of feminism that use the purported consensus that feminism’s aims have been or ought to be achieved to obscure ongoing and intensifying patriarchal oppression: postfeminism, which argues feminism is obsolete because women are already equal to men, and popular feminism, wherein a “spectacularly visible” (Banet-Weiser 2018a, 154) feminism functions as a commodity and a brand. I begin with a discussion of evolving feminisms. This article surveys the most prominent and urgent issues in twenty-first century feminist scholarship and activism, and reviews how musicians, music writers, and music scholars have engaged with them (or not) with the aim of identifying ideas, concepts, and questions that readers can apply-with appropriate modifications-to their own areas of practice and expertise. I have chosen instead to highlight issues that I think will be most useful for scholars and students interested in learning more about the state of music and feminism today. Since I was charged to write an article and not a multivolume series, a comprehensive account of music and feminism in the twenty-first century was off the table. Just as there are many kinds of music, there are many different kinds of feminism in the past two decades music scholarship and activism has flourished, producing innumerable permutations of musics and feminisms. When this journal’s editors asked me to write an overview of the state of feminist music research in the twenty-first century, I felt both fortunate and overwhelmed that feminism, both in general and in relation to music scholarship, has evolved to the point that a comprehensive overview is impossible in anything less than an encyclopedia.

Liz kelly the ringer pdf#

PDF version of this article | Table of contents for this volume “Music and Feminism in the 21st Century.” Music Research Annual 1: 1–25. Robin James is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Keywords: feminism, music, trans studies, technology, work, sexual assault and harassment The article is thus structured to provide a toolkit that scholars and practitioners of any kind of music-and just about any kind of feminism-can apply in their own work and activism. The discussion of each topic begins by examining the relevant scholarship in feminist theory and then proceeds to survey the music studies literature in this area.

It focuses on a set of key issues, problems, and sites of contestation that impact a diverse range of feminisms and musics: the rise of popular and postfeminisms, precaritization and work, trans feminisms, digital technology, and sexual assault and harassment. Abstract: This article surveys feminist music scholarship in the 21st century.