{"id":38,"date":"2018-10-31T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/template-mus122\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2018-12-13T21:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T02:48:53","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joy Division\u2019s 1980 single \u201cLove Will Tear Us Apart\u201d refracts the traditional view of punk through the lens of Ian Curtis\u2019 struggles with his\u00a0disability to create the more tonally and textually diverse musical landscape of post-punk. Post-punk\u2019s often somber subject matter and low, unpolished vocal delivery, contrasted with it\u2019s fast-tempo\/poppier instrumentation, portrays Curtis\u2019 struggles with epilepsy. Curtis uses this music to connect the listener to his disability, an act opposed to the usually \u201cothering\u201d of disabled individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Division\u2019s 1980 single \u201cLove Will Tear Us Apart\u201d refracts the traditional view of punk through the lens of Ian Curtis\u2019 struggles with his\u00a0disability to create the more tonally and textually diverse musical landscape of post-punk. Post-punk\u2019s often somber subject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus238-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}