Grease and the Remasculinization of America
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Marcie Ray
MSU College of Music
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 7:00 p.m.
Main Library North Conference Room, W449
This talk argues that the film adaptation of the musical Grease (1978) is a
nostalgic look at 1950s rock and roll and, in particular, the masculine
ideal it created. In the late 1970s, Grease contributed to a larger
cultural endeavor, as Susan Jefferds has put it, to "remasculinize'
America—in this case, particularly for audiences who felt threatened by the
rise of disco and its associations with alternative masculinities. This
film responds to what amounted to a moral panic about the death of rock
music, because its alleged death heralded the decline of hegemonic white,
middle-class, heterosexual masculinity.
MSU Libraries Colloquia Series
Cosponsored by Music in American Life
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