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Using Pop Music to Deconstruct Gender

3/16/2015

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This collection of gender bending pop music is not all encompassing, but rather reflects the music that hit me hard and let me know, to my soul, that the old ways of presenting gender were changing in the now of that moment and forever . . .

June 1970 The Kinks - "Lola" from Lola vs. Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
The video is a live version that may amuse. Note that Ray has been compelled to change "Coca-cola" to "cherry-cola" by the time of this performance. Earlier versions on You Tube are uncensored.

I saw Ray Davies perform in Portland (around 2012). I felt compelled to leave my balcony seat and move to the very front of the crowd at the lip of the stage, joining the passionate dancers. almost all of them young, trans, gay, or queer, calling out for Lola. 

Of course "kink" is British slang for sexual deviation.

1972 David Bowie - "Suffragette City" from The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
This song was a useful anthem for liberated women of that time but makes even more sense when you see Bowie perform it live. Love the earrings.

July 1973 Rolling Stones on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
I remember being very surprised by the feminine clothing Jagger wore on the TV program - which we young people gathered together to watch in the mode of "Party, circa 1973." There was much discussion of Micks outfits and eye make-up, which challenged the young people of that time.

The Stones also performed "Angie" from Goats Head Soup
It's not the lyrics or the beautiful piano by Nicky Hopkins that made this piece a cutting edge gender mash-up - it's Mick's outfit.

1974 David Bowie - "Rebel Rebel" from Diamond Dogs 
The lyrics, the costume, and Bowie's entire persona challenged gender stereotypes.

The times they were a changin' and what a relief for some of us.
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    Dr. Pineo-Jensen earned her Ph.D. at University of Oregon in 2013 in Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership in the College of Education.

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