At this point you should be moving forward towards completing the Garofalo textbook, here are the reading assignments for the final weeks:
On 'co-optation':
Thomas Frank's "Commodify Your Dissent" here.
from Dick Hebdige, Cut'n'Mix here.
On Gender:
Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie, "Rock and Sexuality"
Simon Frith, "Afterthoughts"
"Richard Dyer, "In Defense of Disco"
Find these articles here as a single PDF file.
Lindsay Zoladz, "Joni Mitchell: Fear of a Female Genius"
On 'sub-cultures':
Here are the Dick Hebdige chapters from Subculture: The Meaning of Style.
Refer back to the Punk: Attitude film screening.
On sampling, music videos, remix culture and the 'postmodern turn':
Andrew Goodwin, "Sample and Hold"
E Ann Kaplan, "A Postmodern Play of the Signifier?"
Also, to clarify (or further obscure) 'postmodernism' please help yourself --in case you have not encountered it in your other studies-- to Fredric Jameson's "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
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