March 1 - The Cockrocker

Reading:

• Sheila Whiteley (1997) “Little Red Rooster v. the Honky Tonk Woman: Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style and Image,” from Sexing the Groove

Listening:

• Rolling Stones, “Cocksucker Blues” (available as youtube recording above)

Optional:

• Steve Waksman (1996) “’Every Inch of My Love: Led Zeppelin and the Problem of Cock Rock,” Journal of Popular Music Studies

Feb 24-Hipsters cont'd & Cockrockers

Reading:

• Steve Waksman (1999) “Kick Out the Jams! The MC5 and the Politics of Noise,” from Instruments of Desire

Listening:

• MC5, “Rocket Reducer No. 62”

Feb 22-The Hipster

NOTE: For this week, post discussion questions, but no artifact postings (to give you more time to work on papers)

Readings:

• Ingrid Monson (2003) “The Problem with White Hipness: Race, Gender, and Cultural Conceptions,” Journal of the American Musicological Society
• Barbara Ehrenreich (1983) "The Beat Rebellion: Beyond Work and Marriage," The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment
• Mark Greif, "What Was the Hipster?," New York Magazine, 24 October 2010

Listening:

• Hipster music of your choice (using your personal definition of hipster)

Feb 17-Jimi Hendrix Part II

Reading:

• Maureen Mahon (2004) “Jimi Hendrix Experiences,” from Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race

*Note: The BRC that Mahon mentions in the chapter refers to the Black Rock Coalition, a non-profit organization supporting black musicians working in rock genres. See link on the right hand site of this post under "Useful Links."

Listening:

• Jimi Hendrix, “If 6 Was 9”
• Living Colour, "Elvis Is Dead"

Feb 15-Jimi Hendrix

Reading:

• Steve Waksman (1999) “Black Sound, Black Body: Jimi Hendrix, the Electric Guitar and the Meanings of Blackness,” Popular Music and Society. Focus especially on second half of article.

Listening:

• Jimi Hendrix tracks, “Star-Spangled Banner” (Woodstock version); "Voodoo Child (Slight Return);" or any others posted on Blackboard
• The "Voodoo Chile" track that Waksman mentions is the video above

Feb 10-Elvis, Post-Army

Reading:

• Freya Jarman-Ivens (2007) “’Don’t Cry, Daddy’: The Degeneration of Elvis Presley’s Musical Masculinity,” from Oh Boy! Masculinities and Popular Music

Listening:

• Elvis Presley (Excerpts from Aloha from Hawaii, in Blackboard)

Feb 8-The Teen Idol (Beatlemania)

Reading:

• Norma Coates (2007) “Teenyboppers, Groupies, and Other Grotesques: Girls and Women and Rock Culture in the 1960s and early 1970s,” Journal of Popular Music Studies
• Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, Gloria Jacobs (1991) “Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, ed. Lisa A. Lewis
• David Dempsey (1964) “Why the Girls Scream, Weep, Flip,” New York Times, 23 February 1964, SM15

Viewing:

• Videos of Beatles fans, listed to the right of this post, under "Period Film Clips"  (these are the artifacts for the posting)