Objective of Peraino's book: "This book presents a series of case studies, using Foucault's four technologies as a framework for examining how music functions as a technique in the conceptualization, configuration, and representation of queer subjectivity and identity" (5).
Other useful ideas:
"Music is notoriously resistant to legibility; and althought cultural, feminist, and queer theorists within musicology have worked hard to revea the signatures of subjectivity and ideology in musical sounds, it is arguably music's resistance to legibility that allows for the use of music as a strategy for negotiating queer identity within dominant heterosexual culture" (7).
"...music demarcates a space and time wherein gender and sexuality lose clear definition" (7).
Goals for tomorrow: I would like to both finish the first chapter of Sirens and read the Bret article, but it is more than likely going to be one or the other. I also should compose and talk to Ryan about a possible fourth song for his film-- it might be a good way to ease myself back into the practice.
Organization will happen this weekend.
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