Inna Arzumanova. Is a
PhD candidate in communication and a fellow in the Annenberg School for
Communication at USC. Her work focuses
on racial performativity, mimicry, global mobility and masquerade in pop
culture’s transnational dialogues.
Alice Echols. Is a historian whose work has focused on the popular music and social movements of the “long ‘60s.” Her books include “Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture” and “Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin.” She is a professor of English at USC.
Josh Kun. Is a writer and professor at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, where he also directs the Popular Music Project at the Norman Lear Center. He is the author of “Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America.”
Shana Redmond. Is assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at USC> Her publications appear in the Western Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of Popular Culture, African and Black Diaspora, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
The following is my interpretation of the panel discussion and probably contains plenty of errors.
Echols: We judge musical genres and politics by their end point. We lose the transformative impact of their early days. How it transformed culture.
She came to the study of music late. She was a disco DJ and eventually wrote about
it.
Disco allowed for bodily understanding for gay men. The tearing off of shirts meant that one had to work out, it created identity and changed sexual habits.
Kun: Can a love song be political? There is something about music that is above us all. It is how we see the world change.
He once got into a fight over music and realized that music has a lot of passion behind it.
Believes that regional Mexico music that is played in SoCal may have large impact in the U.S. It is about immigrant Mexicans singing about challenges of balancing life in the US with the cultural pulls from Mexico.
Music genre segregation (country vs blues) was a way to enforce social segregation.
Arzumanova: Popular music is a way to re-make identity. She focuses on race and politics of making do.
Looking at one artist who always changes her racial identity as she travels the world.
She studies music become she wants to discover narratives about identity. She is obsessed with Cher and how her ethnic identity changes over time.
Nneka is an example of her studies, who has an album out called Concrete Jungle. She is attempting to engage with what is happening in the globe. She did not grow up in the US, but identifies with the US due to commercial money.
Redmond: Popular music gives us a lot of space to re-invite ourselves. She is writing about anthems, especially how anthems impacted the civil rights movements. How do we relate to music such as how do shifts in music scores such as women dropping out of the vocals during part of a song impact society.
She was a music major, was trying to figure herself out: why did she listen to certain songs?
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