Annotated Bibliography: Music, Art, Cultural Transmission and Identity

This annotated bibliography explores the influence of musicians' identities on cultural transmission, production, reception, and distribution of music and sound. It analyzes performances using ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and gender studies. The bibliography includes discussions of various articles covering topics such as queer music, Latino American music genres, political ambitions, gay and lesbian perspectives in mass culture, homosexuality, the impact of language on sexuality, the Studio 54 documentary, gospel music, rave culture, and the works of Luther Vandross. The articles explore diverse themes like alternative theories, cultural stereotypes, and the evolution of musical styles, providing a comprehensive overview of the intersection of music, art, and culture. The author examines the use of impersonation, derivation, and imitation in contemporary queer musical performances, and also discusses the complexities of sexuality and cultural production within different communities.

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Title: exploration of different traditions of music and art for assessing the influence of
musicians’ identities on cultural transmission, production, reception, and distribution of
music and sound.
Analyzing the performances in interdisciplinary manner, this article review aims to
explore and criticize the use of ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and gender studies
to interpret how the musicians generate meanings through multi-media presentations.
Article 1: https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-171295073/keeping-time-with-lesbians-
on-ecstasy
Discussion
In THE POLITICS OF knowledge in an age of stupidity, the author intends to highlight the
various themes based on “theories of the alternative” and exhibits why it is different from the
theories of the dominant. The various articles that have been identified in the article are aimed at
establishing that the alternative is a utopian as well as a potentially naïve project. The main
context with which the theme has been explored in the article is the logic of the cover song of the
queer band Lesbians on Ecstasy. As identified by the author of the article, the cover songs are
generally created as a tribute, quirky interpretation, pathetic reenactment or a revisit of the
timeless classic by means of the original creation. Hence, the author interrogates the audience
about what they perceive to be the best outlook of the cover version of a song, queer, different or
alternative?
Analyzing the basic postulates of the arguments that have been presented in the article, it can be
commented that contemporary queer musical performances and further emphasis that the artists
should emphasize on investing in impersonation, derivation as well as imitation.

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Article 2: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/7640
Discussion
The music genre of Latino America have been analyzed as well as justified in the article.
This genre of music has been articulated as the fantasy store where the topography can be
perceived as the travel guide leading to desire. The voyeurs of such travel voyages can be
classified as heading towards the “exhibition of flesh”. In this context, the author specifically
discusses about the “Tropics of Desire”. As per Quiroga, there is positive message about sex in
the creations of the hesitant Mexican poets. Along with that the poet manifests the use of
invisibility as a universal imperative that helps in resisting the desire for sex. The cultural
examples that have been explored by the author in this article are quite diverse. The author uses
reference from all sorts of literary works including performance of bolero and salsa along with
intervening how the masters like Walter Benjamin, Barthes as well as the rich tradition that have
been used by the American stylists (King, 2000). Analyzing the context and appeal of these
forms of art, the author argumentatively advocates for a system of politics which is estranged and
aloof of biological determinism and also despises the cultural stereotypes for the sake of political
action.
Article 3: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/gustafson/FILM%20165A.W11/film%20165A
%5BW11%5D%20readings%20/hooksparis.pdf
Discussion
The book makes a very strategic beginning with the appointment of General Deitrich Von
Choltitz as the head of German Army in 1944. The orders of General Deitrich Von Choltitz
resonates the theme on which the story have been developed. The general orders his subordinates

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to hold Paris or devastate every building before they leave Paris. This is effectively a tale that
conveys political ambition along with display of sheer callous as well as brutal planning from
both ends. It describes the allied plan of attack with respect to Paris{which was actually
brilliant}, how the said plan was forced to be abandoned, how the resistance – fragmented and
ridden with rivalry – planned a last resistance (Pini M1997).
Article 4: https://www.dukeupress.edu/out-in-culture?
viewby=author&lastname=White&firstname=Patricia&middlename=&displayName=$displayN
ame&sort=title%20duke%20university%20pres%20link%20on%20the%20book&aID=645064
This piece of literature is a splendid analysis of the ways in which the lesbians, gays as
well as queers understands as well as negotiates with pleasures, affirmations as well as their
disappointments in the mass culture. There is a rich representation of gay as well as lesbian
approaches to films, television, fashion as well as popular music. In fact several researchers like
Jones (2018), have acknowledged this critical literary piece as one of the pioneering works of
media criticism of gay and lesbian content. Many researchers like Kenny (2018), feel that the
“dossiers” are bearing special social significance regarding the queer concept of queer in the
stories of Alfred Hitchcock. The second and the most plausible explored theme is production as
well as reception of music by the gay as well as the lesbian communities.
Article 5:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781135863821/chapters/10.4324/9780203944189-9
This literary piece wonderfully explores the theme of promotion of the concepts related
to homosexuality as an essential medical state and also highlights the difficulties that would be
faced in this context. In lieu of feminist criticism of culture, this literary piece explores the thrust

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that was experienced in the gay studies. The main argument of the article is substantial in the fact
that in today’s age when sexuality has been greatly dominated by the right wing rhetoric as well
as AIDS panic, people with gay identity perceive that desire is merely a cultural production.
There have been constant efforts of radical concentration of the sexual categories in to homo as
well as hetero sexual. The author realizes that this is a bifurcation akin to the minoritising as well
as universalizing.
Article 6: http://shifter-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sedgwick-Eve-Kosofsky-
Epistemology-Closet.pdf
This book directly raises the question of what constitutes the sexuality of human beings.
The basis on which the question has been answered is contextualized with Sedgwick's
understanding as well as analysis of the queer theory. Any aspect of modern culture have been
perceived to be not merely incomplete, but damaged from the central disposition to the extent
that it cannot accomplish a critical analysis of the homo or hetero sexuality. The inclusion of the
late nineteenth century occurrence of the historical moment when sexual orientation has become
an essential element of personal identification makes the discussion in the literature more
relevant and dominant. The sexual contradictions are gradually resulting in the modern
misunderstanding (Sedgwick, 2019). This central idea has been explored in the article based on
the language’s impact of sexuality. There is a splendid depiction of the impact of language on
sexuality since labeled speech is ultimately considered as the basis of proving the self identity of
a person in terms of his or her sexuality.
Article 7: Studio 54 (Netflix)

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The primary interviewees of this documentary film of Netflix are the legendary as well as
notorious owners of the night club in the year 1977, Ian Schrager who partnered with Steve
Rubell. The movie makes it evident that Schrager definitely did not attempt to gain a supreme
publicity as Rubell had attempted to gain the same at any cost. The movei gains in strategic
importance as it has been able to air the real life Schrager who is seen speaking in Brooklynese.
The frankness and fondness of the personality is a point of advantage for the audience in the case
of this film. The vivid descriptions of the time as evident in the discussions of Schrager make
this film a strong hit. Various surviving habitués of the club of Schrager are evident in his lively
descriptions in the second half of the movie. However, the context is linked to the archival film,
where Roy Cohn plays the role of Rubell (Brett, 2018). The moment when Rubell was asked on
an interview to speak on the arrest of his partner and he says that he is proud of his partner, have
been wonderfully portrayed. The fast account of the movie is classic and at times the same is a
tad facile in the analysis of the cultural moments.
Article 8: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/705623/pdf
Discussion:
The main argument of the article is regarding the performance of gospel music and the
long drawn tradition of ministers exhibiting songs as well as delivering sermons promoting
sexual abstinence among the unmarried individuals as well as encouraging the listeners to wait
until their marriage to enjoy the pleasure of sex. The prohibitive teachings of the Christians have
also been displayed and strongly critiqued. Yet the songs and sermons through which such
messages reach the "gates" of the congregation are themselves a physical and embodied

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discourse that—for many listeners and performers—can be understood as erotic and pleasurable
(Creekmur and Doty, 2019).
Article 9: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230379213_7
Discussion
There are two broad aims based on which this piece of literature can be analyzed. Special
mention should be made of those arguments that present a visual of the contemporary rave
culture in context to the various subject positions opened up to the women. The primary analysis
that have been conducted in the article with regard to the personal account of women who have
been highly indulged in rave as well as post rave deserves mention. The rave culture have been
compared to the social depictions in the particular Utopian as well as political fictions by some
eminent feminists. Hence, it can be concluded that traditional dualism is the centrifugal point of
comparison and contextualization in the article.
Article 10: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3299570?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Discussion
The efforts to eschew the familiar church and the chitlin elements have been explored in
this article. The works of Luther Vandross are the main areas of argument. Citations of his works
have been exhibited in the article to justify how he garnered his voice to overthrow the repetitive
culture where there is no hint of progression (Neal, 2001). Extravagant style in his attire and
appearance is evident and for the author of the article, somewhere that is the basis of his
acceptance.

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Reference List and Bibiography
Brett, P. (2018). Queering the Pitch. Taylor and Francis Group. Retrieved on 16th April 2019.
Retrieved from
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781135863821/chapters/10.4324/9780203944189-9
Creekmur, C.K. and Doty, A. Out in Culture. Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular
Culture. Duke University Press. Retrieved on 16th April 2019. Retrieved from
https://www.dukeupress.edu/out-in-culture?
viewby=author&lastname=White&firstname=Patricia&middlename=&displayName=$displayN
ame&sort=title%20duke%20university%20pres%20link%20on%20the%20book&aID=645064
Jones, A. L. (2018). "You Are My Dwelling Place": Experiencing Black Male Vocalists'
Worship as Aural Eroticism and Autoeroticism in Gospel Performance. Women and Music: A
Journal of Gender and Culture 22, 3-21. University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved April 16, 2019,
from Project MUSE database.
Kenny, G. (2018). Review: Against the Odds, ‘Studio 54’ Sheds Light on the Club. The New
York Times. Retrieved on 16th April 2019. Retrieved from
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/movies/studio-54-review.html
King, J. (2000). Any Love: Silence, Theft, and Rumor in the Work of Luther Vandross. Callaloo,
23(1), 422-447. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3299570
Neal, M.A. (2001). Luther Vandross: self-titled. Retrieved on 16th April 2019. Retrieved from
https://www.popmatters.com/vandrossluther-st-2496104882.html

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Pini M. (1997) Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine. In: Thomas H. (eds) Dance in the
City. Palgrave Macmillan, London
Quiroga, J.(2000). Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America. New York:
NYU Press. Retrieved April 16, 2019, from Project MUSE database.
Sedgwick, E, K. (2019). EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE CLOSET. University of California Press.
Retrieved on 16th April 2019. Retrieved from
http://shifter-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sedgwick-Eve-Kosofsky-
Epistemology-Closet.pdf
White, Geoffrey. (2015). Is Paris Burning? Touring America's “Good War” in France. History
and Memory. 27. 74-103. 10.2979/histmemo.27.2.74.