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Resilience & Melancholy – pop music, feminism, neoliberalism
Robin James
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Paperback. Neoliberalism co-opts noisy riots like feminism and hardcore music--can melancholic siren songs fight back? Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; JFC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
When most people think that "little girls should be seen and not heard," a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that's not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren't supposed to be virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream back in spectacularly noisy and transgressive ways as they "Lean In." Resilience is the new, neoliberal feminine ideal: real women overcome all the objectification and silencing that impeded their foremothers. Resilience discourse incites noisy damage, like screams, so that it can be recycled for a profit. It turns the crises posed by avant-garde noise, feminist critique, and black aesthetics into ... Read more
When most people think that "little girls should be seen and not heard," a noisy, riotous scream can be revolutionary. But that's not the case anymore. (Cis/Het/White) Girls aren't supposed to be virginal, passive objects, but Poly-Styrene-like sirens who scream back in spectacularly noisy and transgressive ways as they "Lean In." Resilience is the new, neoliberal feminine ideal: real women overcome all the objectification and silencing that impeded their foremothers. Resilience discourse incites noisy damage, like screams, so that it can be recycled for a profit. It turns the crises posed by avant-garde noise, feminist critique, and black aesthetics into ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782795988
SKU
V9781782795988
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About Robin James
Robin James is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNC Charlotte, a contributor to Cyborgology and The New Inquiry, and a sound artist. Her writing has appeared in scholarly journals such as The Journal of Popular Music Studies and Hypatia, and her scholarly monograph The Conjectural Body: Gender, Race, and the Philosophy of Music was published by Lexington Books. She maintains ... Read more
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