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A RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF WOMEN'S MUSIC AND THE LESBIANFEMINIST MOVEMENT
Abstract
This dissertation examined the lesbianfeminist rhetoric found in women's music, at concerts, and in alternative presses to discern the interactions between women's music and the Lesbianfeminist social-cultural movement. The approach to the understanding is dramatistic. Communication is the active force creating, maintaining, and eliminating social-cultural movements. A movement must use communicative strategies to complete rhetorical tasks--declaring its differences from the established social order in the public realm, setting forth its critical analysis of the current social order, presenting its vision for a new social order, reaching potential movement members, and nuturing already committed members. This study argued that the lesbianfeminist rhetoric operating in women's music is one of the primary ways the Lesbianfeminist movement accomplishes the rhetorical tasks necessary for its survival. Analyzing the interactions between women's music and the Lesbianfeminist movement provided insights into the workings of this particular movement, and furthered our general knowledge of social-cultural movements.
Subject Area
Communication
Recommended Citation
NOGLE, VICTORIA LOUISE, "A RHETORICAL CRITICISM OF WOMEN'S MUSIC AND THE LESBIANFEMINIST MOVEMENT" (1984). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8509870.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8509870