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Class Notes 4/2/07 Group work (Ragonese, "Riot Grrrls Castrate 'Cock Rock' in New York")

(Marissa Ragonese, "Riot Grrrls Castrate "Cock Rock" in New York from Off Our Backs, May/June 2002 issue)

Argument:

• "Feminist punk-rock dyke activist/aspiring academic separatist riot grrrls" want to see more female rock artists being played on the air (92.3 K Rock in particular)
• On one popular rock station in NYC (K Rock), 99.12% of music played is by male artists.
• Feminist protesters argued that in addition to females being discriminated against on the air, wmoen were also being degraded on the rock stations talk shows( ie: Howard Stern Morning Show)

Audience Targeted:

• Protesters are targeting women who are not equally represented on the popular rock stations.
  
• Also targeting all groups who experience inequality in the music industry.

Structure/Discourse:

• All aspects of radio station (music playlists, DJ's talk shows) were sending misogynist, anti-feminist/anti-women messages to listeners.
• DJ's were all males with exception of one.
• DJ's mocked feminist protesters; calling them names, etc.
• Howard Stern Show- show's content is degrading to women.

-Miss Nooch

Blog Post #5 for Friday 4/6/07 Updated

Blogging in College: The Gender & Pop Culture Blog Experiment: "April 3, 2007

Posted by Jessie at 10:03 AM 0 comments

Friday (4/6/07) Blog Post #5 Now with more options to choose from!

- How has your blog-topic made news? When it has been the subject of the news, how has it been depicted? Specifically, when your topic is the subject of the news/media, how do you see the news/media depict gender, race, class, etc in your topic in relation to the reason that it made the news? In other words, does race, class, gender, etc factor into the reason that the topic became 'newsworthy?'

Use at least one class reading and read/watch at least one source of news/media that relates to your topic (when it made news) to analyze this portrayal of your topic by the news/media. Find an example of 'mainstream' news for this assignment. Make sure you link to the news/media source if it can be found online or cite it w/ your citation of the course reading you used at the end of the blog post.

Another issue that at least one person brought up on the index cards* was the topics for the blog posts. I want to keep the topics linked to the course readings and class discussions; however, I also want you to pursue areas that are of interest to you (which, hopefully your topic is one already)"