Ideas Through Words In Music: The Riot Grrrl Movement Throughout history, music has been the artistic stage of philosphoical output of both ideas, emotions and stories, enducing emotional and cogitational responses from the audience, through it’s representation of ideas and through ‘words in music’. Victor Hugo says- “Music expresses…. that which cannot remain silent” (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), and is a predominant feature in the early 1990s ‘Riot Grrrl’ movement, in which female-empowerment
be heard, until now. Riot grrrl, a radical feminist movement that thrived in the underground punk scene has challenged the media to take a step back and recognize the women involved to be able to portray and express themselves without the need of society’s written standards of how or what the ideal woman should be. In Kevin Dunn and May Farnsworth’s article, “We ARE The Revolution”: Riot Grrrl Press, Girl Empowerment, and DIY Self-Publishing, the authors mention how riot grrrl members took matters
communally addressing the common interests of music and feminism, the women decided Riot Grrrl was an essential innovation. As it is noted, two women named Allison Wolfe and Molly Neuman, worked alongside a fanzine editor, Jen Smith, to establish a collectively-authored feminist zine called Riot Grrrl (Dunn and Farnsworth 139). During this timeframe, another woman named Kathleen Hanna was hosting weekly meetings where Riot Grrrl motives and potential aims would be deliberated among various women (Dunn and
‘From Riot Grrrl to Pussy Riot: to what extent has the underground protest movements ‘Riot Grrrl’ shaped the feminist punk we hear across Europe and America today?’ Literature Review and Methodology (How went about it) current feminist bands in general- current punk bands in general (INTRO: 500 WORDS) ‘We need to start a girl riot’ are the words Jen Smith, activist and co-conceiver of the term ‘Riot Grrrl’, wrote in a letter to lead singer of her band ‘Bratmobile’, Allison Wolfe in 1991 (Barton
topic that is to be discussed in this essay, one must first understand two seemingly unrelated topics. Those topics are feminism and punk rock. These two social movements spawned the love child that has come to be known as the riot grrrl movement. The history of the riot grrrl movement is deep and intensely intertwined with themes of monumental social change, musical evolution, and the previously unseen all-encompassing nature that is unique to third wave feminism. Many historians learned on the subject
Research Methodology Report My themed research project will centre its focus upon the link between Riot Grrrl and its relation to Third-Wave Feminism. Primarily I aim to analyse Riot Grrrl’s music scene, but also its subculture mentioning its DIY punk ethic, political activism and most importantly its influential Zine network. However the purpose of this report is to demonstrate a grounded understanding in three research methodologies and how I will apply each one in regards to my own project
The Relationship Between Riot Grrrl Feminism and Zines For much of the 1990s, third-wave feminism was in full force. Stemming from the second-wave feminism movement, third-wave feminism arose despite the antifeminist and postfeminist ideologies that were the result of the previous wave of feminism (Garrison, 2000), which included protests against Roe v. Wade as well as the negative stereotyping of female characters within popular media. The focus of this paper will be the subculture of third-wave
The two articles I will be comparing are as follows: The Expansion of Punk Rock: Riot Grrrl Challenges to Gender Power Relations in British Indie Music Subcultures by Julia Downes, and The Spirit Is Willing and So Is the Flesh: The Queen in Hip-Hop Culture by Leola A. Johnson. The articles focus on the Riot Grrl movement and the ‘Queen’ in hip hop and its accompanying culture respectively. The ‘Queens’ and the Riot Grrl movement defied political, social and sexual norms. They both had similar goals
Now! Riot Grrrls were originally born out of the “Punk” scene where rebellion was expressed in attitude, appearance, style, and music. Defining Riot Grrrl is much like defining Punk. There is no central organization, no authoritive definition, just an attitude concerned with pointing out social hypocrisy and empowering people to “do it yourself”, creating a culture of their own when they see that the mainstream media does not reflect their concerns or provide outlets for their efforts. Riot Grrrl
Anti-Chinese Riots Happening in Washington State In the last decades of the 19th century, anti-Asian backlash fueled by high unemployment which increased resentment against Asian settlers, anti-Asian legislation, and growing nativism, erupted into violent riots in Washington State. Throughout the 1880s, thousands of Chinese laborers were especially targeted for murder, assault, and forced evacuation all across the state. The reasoning behind and the implications of these acts of violence
The Importance of Misunderstanding in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison In Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man, the main character is faced with challenges that he must overcome to survive. Most of the challenges he faces are straightforward; however, he ends up losing to his surroundings. When he makes a speech to calm a disorderly group, he ends up unwittingly naming himself their leader, thus, changing a slightly rowdy group into a mob primed for racial rioting. How can someone's speech be manipulated
being taken away from them as the new machines in the cities which were capable of doing the work of many men were becoming increasingly more popular with factory owners as they were cheaper and could work indefinitely, this riots the main factor that led to the luddite riots. Although the problems in the city were a large cause of popular protests, the situation in the country was also a contributing factor because of enclosure, this was the method in which strips of land that was owned by
Several race riots occurred in the forties. Even though they were equal in violence to the riots of the Civil Rights Movement in the sixties, many Americans forget the riots of the forties. The biggest and bloodiest race riot of the 1940’s took place in Detroit, Michigan, in June of 1943. Several publications covered the riots, and none of the printed facts ever matched up until years later. This rioting resulted from a rumor that flowed through city streets. The rumor and the riot that it caused
The night following Brown’s shooting, police dressed in riot gear came to break up an unruly crowd following a prayer vigil held in Brown’s memory. The following day, officers had to resort to using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a massive crowd at a local convenience store that had been burned down
A riot is a violent disturbance of the peace by a crowd. Martin Luther King once stated, “A riot is the language of the unheard” (Farrell). This meant Dr. King, who only led peaceful protests, knows what can trigger a riot. Riots happen when no one is willing to listen or assist those who were protesting, and then violence breaks out because of ignorance. Peaceful protests can turn into riots very quickly. The people of Tel Aviv wanted justice for
there is currently so much focus on July of 1967 – this year is the anniversary of one of the deadliest riots in United States history, and it took place right here in Detroit. However, in the half-century since, there has been a good deal of debate over whether the term “riot” is the best name for the violence that occurred. I would say that the violence of July 1967 was more of a rebellion than a riot – a rebellion against an oppressive system in Detroit (and America) that has not yet been fully eradicated
Food Riots During Eighteenth Century Europe Food riots were a form of popular protest generally held to have been common between the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Food riots were a knee jerk reaction to shortages and unacceptable inflation in the price of necessities[1] . The eighteenth century was particularly prone to this reactionary form of collective action[2] and in order to understand why I have looked at the political and social circumstances within Europe
the Revolution because of their aggression, zeal and participation in the Sans-Culottes’ protests. There was a riot police handled on February 25th 1973 where “there was a new crowd of citizens there… But we had brought along with us many armed citizens who dispersed this mob. We saw there a citoyenne… who was influencing people and stirring up trouble.” Police had to quell another riot caused by the women’s reaction to the high sugar prices when “the women, above all, were the most enraged… and
Around 3:00 pm on Sunday April 11, 1993 a riot started when prisoners returning from recreation time attacked prison guards in cell block L. The guards held the keys to the entire cell block and it did not take long for the prisoners to take full advantage of the keys. Four beaten guards were released within hours of the attack but 8 were retained. The riot was started for many reasons but the most obvious reason was TB testing on Muslims, they do not believe in using needles to take blood or for
around Judge Holden. Judge Holden is a mystery from his very first appearance in the novel and remains so until the very end of the novel, when he is one of the few characters surviving. The kid first comes face to face with Holden in a saloon after a riot and eventually joins with Holden and a gang of misfit scalp-hunters to roam the Mexican-American borderlands. Judge Holden has some historical foundation as a character. The Judge is mentioned in Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession, a personal narrative