From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 21:26
From Michael Upton Sent Tue, Feb 16th 1999, 21:26
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 xxxxx@xxxx.xxx wrote: | Maybe a discussion of how socialization has built up expectations | about the correspondence of gender to sound is in order here. A good place | to start is Richard Leppert's "The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, | and the History of the Body", an account of how representations of music | have evolved in lockstep with the emergence of the bourgeois family, with | populist, collective and festive music making eclipsed in favor of the | private household model that centers around the "man of the house". Surely | the lone male bedroom knob twiddler, that figure of both identification and | oh-god-it's-not-me anxiety for many an IDMer, is in fact one expression of | this historical trajectory. There's some interesting essays at http://www.let.uva.nl/~hannah specifically http://www.let.uva.nl/~hannah/genelmus.htm The author looks at the role of male and female voices, as something that is still definitely gendered, in electronic music. The trends can pretty much be directly applied to non-academic stuff, eg idm, particularly trip-hop. Michael ____________________________________________ "His eyes are TV cameras" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html