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Through popular music, we can understand changing social norms and life experiences. In this conversation, Portland State University adjunct professor Sarah Dougher focuses on how gender is represented in American popular music through historical, political, and social lenses. Participants will listen to music and discuss videos and images from popular music genres and outlets from rockabilly to American Idol, considering the way popular music shapes and reflects values, mores, and aesthetics in our culture.
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Program available through October 2013
Sarah Dougher is an educator, writer, and musician from Portland, Oregon. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from University of Texas, Austin, and teaches on topics of popular music, gender, and activism studies at Portland State University. She is currently working on a book about tween girls and popular music, which examines new media contexts for consuming and creating music in the 21st century. Dougher has taught at colleges and universities including Reed, Evergreen, Linfield and Portland Community College. She volunteers with the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, the Oregon Historical Society and p:ear, and is a composer and musician who for the past 15 years has performed, recorded, and toured both as a solo artist and in numerous bands.
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