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Wannabe feminism

By ~LS~ On April 1, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Politics, Pop Culture, Sex, Sexism

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Women in rock: some things never change

By ~LS~ On February 17, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Pop Culture, Sexism

Baton Rouge has a new radio station: 103.3. Well, not a new radio station but an old station with a new format. The new format is “Music for Generation X.” That’s me, of course. The old format was “Divas” — not for me.

I listened to the station for several hours today and it’s quite a Frankenstein’s monster in terms of genre. They played everything from Nirvana and Guns-n-Roses to C+C Music Factory, with pit stops at Salt – n- Peppa, and REM, not to mention mid to late 80s disco, hip hop, rock, and the weird, bad music that I forgot existed. Funny, though, I recognized every song I heard, which demonstrates the way that our (my!) listening in the 80s and 90s was rather homogeneous despite the generic differences that existed.

Still, after about four hours of listening, guess what…no women in rock. Ok, [...]

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Mix tape obsolescence

By ~LS~ On December 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Media Ecology, Music, Pop Culture, Technoculture

As the decade draws to a close, many commentators are remarking on the demise of various technologies. I am sometimes rueful and sometimes relieved by the disappearance of the technologies, of their associated objects and habits.

Think of letter writing. Often, the only clues to women’s history or insights into the thoughts and emotions of previous generations lie in their letters. Writing letters was a habitus, a way of being and doing. Today, our digital documentation is excessive and often thin and shallow. A constant stream of 140 characters doesn’t seem to me to capture the nuances of a traditional letter. I suppose that 19th century upper-class women writing about their tea service (see Veblen on spoons; there is no spoon?) could be considered shallow too. Both Twitter and high tea are reflections in “taste” in its fullest sense of the [...]

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Randomly Musing – Madonna and Keith Richards

By ~LS~ On October 27, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Pop Culture, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Age, Consumption, Fashion/beauty, Feminism, Music, Pop Culture, Queer, Sexism

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kd lang

By ~LS~ On September 30, 2009 · Add Comment · In Humor, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Humor, Music, Pop Culture, Queer, Texas

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This Machine Kills Facists

By ~LS~ On August 21, 2009 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Music, Politics

Like every good, card-carrying leftist, I know who Woody Guthrie is and what he stood for. I’m sure pretty much everyone in the U.S. has heard at least part of “This Land is Your Land.” They’ve mostly heard it in white-washed settings where it’s usually been severed from its political roots.

I didn’t know about the additional verses to the song, though. I found them on Wikipedia. Here:

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I’d seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?

The Wikipedia site is actually pretty interesting. It talks about how the above lyrics were restored at Obama’s inaugural (more proof that he’s a socialist). It also includes a note Guthrie made about his copyright of the song:

“This [...]

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