{"id":38,"date":"2018-11-13T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T21:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/template-mus122\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2018-12-13T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:33:14","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/Prince-Kiss-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/Prince-Kiss-1-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/Prince-Kiss-1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/Prince-Kiss-1-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/Prince-Kiss-1-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/Prince-Kiss-1.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Alternative &#8220;Kiss&#8221; Single Cover, <em>SportsAlcohol.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/JM-Make-Me-Feel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/JM-Make-Me-Feel-300x235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/JM-Make-Me-Feel-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/JM-Make-Me-Feel-768x602.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/files\/2018\/12\/JM-Make-Me-Feel.png 868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Make Me Feel&#8221; Single Cover, <em>Wikipedia.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In American culture and music, men are expected to perform standards of masculinity, usually associated with a deep vocal tone, a bare face and loose-fitting clothing, and limited movement of body parts such as the hips, thighs, and butt. Prince constantly toyed with these norms and expectations in his music videos and performances throughout his entire four-decade long career. With his use of falsetto, tight, revealing clothing choices, and sensual accentuation of his body in the video, Prince redefined gender and sexuality norms with his 1986 hit, \u201cKiss.\u201d Deeply inspired by the music and visual aspects of her friend and mentor\u2019s hit single \u201cKiss,\u201d singer Janelle Mon\u00e1e echoes this redefinition but alters it to critique 21<sup>st\u00a0<\/sup>century expectations of physical femininity and heterosexuality of Black women in her 2018 tune, \u201cMake Me Feel.\u201d Through unexpected vocal maneuvers and funky, synthesizer-heavy instrumentation coupled with portrayals of gender and sexual fluidity, both Prince and Janelle Mon\u00e1e create opportunities for Black bodies to exist and thrive outside of restrictive gender and sexuality norms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative &#8220;Kiss&#8221; Single Cover, SportsAlcohol.com &#8220;Make Me Feel&#8221; Single Cover, Wikipedia.com In American culture and music, men are expected to perform standards of masculinity, usually&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2949,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus235-06\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}