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Popular Music, Gendered Violence, and Trauma Studies
Time:
Thursday, 09/Nov/2023:
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:Governor's Sq. 12
Session Topics:
Popular Music, Composition / Creative Process, Music Theory and Analysis, 1900–Present, African American / Black Studies, Film and Media Studies, Pedagogy / Education, Philosophy / Critical Theory, Gender / Sexuality / LGBTQ Studies, Race / Ethnicity / Social Justice, AMS
Presentations
Popular Music, Gendered Violence, and Trauma Studies
Chair(s): Jillian C Rogers (Indiana University), Erin M Brooks (SUNY Potsdam)
Organized by the AMS Music, Sound, and Trauma Study Group
Popular music has long engaged with gendered violence in narratives and representations of domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault, as well as of escape, survival, and healing. Stephanie Jensen-Moulton’s and Lauron Kehrer’s forthcoming co-edited volume, ““Better Be Good to Me”: American Popular Songs as Domestic Violence Narratives, provides insightful analyses of popular music’s engagement with sexual violence and will serve as a critical resource for future engagement with this subject. Given the number of people who have experienced sexual violence, the question of how to ethically and thoughtfully research, write about, and teach popular music that represents gendered violence is also paramount for music studies scholars. As we research or perform these musics or ask our students to engage with such topics, how can trauma studies help us craft ethical research, enrich our understanding, care for ourselves and others, and avoid retraumatization?
This session, sponsored by the AMS Music, Sound, and Trauma Study Group, takes a 2-hour workshop format. First, contributors to “Better Be Good to Me” Lindsey Eckenroth, Kristofer Eckelhoff, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Lauron Kehrer, and Gayle Murchison present lightning talks based on their work on sexual violence narratives in American popular music for this volume. After these talks, session participants—speakers and audience members—will move into small groups in order to address larger questions that arise in working on and teaching sexual violence as it has been presented in popular music. This workshop format will allow participants to work together to consider the ethics of researching and teaching about sexual violence through song–an ethical consideration that can be applied not only to popular music, but to music studies writ-large.
