‘I could scream my truth right through your lies if I wanted’: Bikini Kill’s sound-collage and the subversive rhetoric of grrrlhood
2015; Intellect; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1386/punk.4.2-3.159_1
ISSN2044-3706
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoThis article investigates how riot grrrl, a movement pinned to punk pedagogy, used music and its components (lyrics and sound) to manipulate the marketed images of girlhood. This was in order to offend the sensibilities of the mediatized and commodified landscape of girl culture. It will use an analysis of three Bikini Kill songs to reveal how, as the language of juxtaposition (as lyrics) and sound coalesces in their music, Bikini Kill created a chaotic vocal and visual artistry that transformed their songs into distinctive sound-collages. As such, the article aims to identify that grrrls combined language with sound as a noisy means to self-define, and build a rich language of resistance against mass culture. It proposes that riot grrrl worked to rewrite the found narratives of girlhood in an eye-catching, but most prominently to the notion of sound-collage, ear-catching form of subversion. Despite the break-up of Bikini Kill in 1997, their music is still both audible and visible. Thus, this article concludes to suggest that the subversive subject can still take recourse in the sound-collage, as its project of communication is one that still resonates.
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