John Sloophttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/31712024-03-28T21:27:08Z2024-03-28T21:27:08Z"A Van with a Bar and a Bed": Ritualized Gender Norms in the John/Joan CaseSloop, John M., 1963-http://hdl.handle.net/1803/31972020-04-22T08:30:35Z2000-04-01T00:00:00Z"A Van with a Bar and a Bed": Ritualized Gender Norms in the John/Joan Case
Sloop, John M., 1963-
Through a critical reading of the mass mediated discourse that arose in the wake of the John/Joan or "twins" case, this analysis investigates contemporary iterations of gender performativity, gendered morals and feminism. The author calls for a complication of gender culture and feminism in the public sphere.
2000-04-01T00:00:00Z"Apology Made to Whoever Pleases": Cultural Discipline and the Grounds of InterpretationSloop, John M., 1963-http://hdl.handle.net/1803/31962020-04-22T08:30:33Z1994-01-01T00:00:00Z"Apology Made to Whoever Pleases": Cultural Discipline and the Grounds of Interpretation
Sloop, John M., 1963-
After reviewing contemporary cultural and media scholarship that emphasizes the role of audiences in creating resistant readings of texts, this essay suggests that such audience-oriented theories should be re-supplemented with a concern for the ways in which texts, the grounds of interpretation, are constrained by cultural forces. Through a critical analysis of the controversy that ensued after Public Enemy's Professor Griff made universalizing claims about Jews, the essay investigates the economic, political, and ideological mechanisms that encouraged the band to withdraw the text (Griff's comments) and replace it with a text more consistent with the dominant cultural ideology of liberalism.
1994-01-01T00:00:00ZDisciplining the Transgendered: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and NormativitySloop, John M., 1963-http://hdl.handle.net/1803/31892020-04-22T08:30:23Z2000-01-01T00:00:00ZDisciplining the Transgendered: Brandon Teena, Public Representation, and Normativity
Sloop, John M., 1963-
2000-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Politics of Authenticity in Postmodern Rock Culture: The Case of Negativland and The Letter "U" and the Numeral "2"Sloop, John M., 1963-Herman, Andrew, 1957-http://hdl.handle.net/1803/31882020-04-22T08:27:57Z1998-03-01T00:00:00ZThe Politics of Authenticity in Postmodern Rock Culture: The Case of Negativland and The Letter "U" and the Numeral "2"
Sloop, John M., 1963-; Herman, Andrew, 1957-
Based on recent concerns with the notion of authenticity and effective politics in contemporary popular culture and scholarship on culture, this essay uses a case study of the legal and popular controversy surrounding the Negativland recording, "The Letter 'U' and the Number '2'." The analysis points to the organic development of alternative logics in the changing landscape of popular culture. Moreover, we point to the relationship between the "pastiche" style of the Negativland recording as a metaphor for authenticity and justice in postmodern rock culture.
1998-03-01T00:00:00Z