{"id":26,"date":"2020-03-29T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T19:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/?p=26"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:11:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T21:11:11","slug":"examining-the-village-peoples-ymca-transforming-a-christian-organization-into-a-gay-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/2020\/03\/29\/examining-the-village-peoples-ymca-transforming-a-christian-organization-into-a-gay-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining the Village People&#8217;s &#8220;YMCA&#8221;: Transforming a Christian Organization into a Gay Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Village People  YMCA OFFICIAL Music Video 1978\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W4uIJLOaVXc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">The above video is the music video for the Village People&#8217;s &#8220;Y.M.C.A.&#8221; It was released in 1978 and is set in New York City. Video was obtained from YouTube.<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Introductory Paragraph\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Who are the Village People? Who created the group? Why was the group created? Where was it created? Who is in it?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>THESIS:\u00a0<\/strong>In 1978, the Village People, a prominent disco group, released their music video for their hit &#8220;Y.M.C.A.,&#8221; which was centered around musical and visual representations of masculinity stereotypes and male socialization to celebrate gay culture in a heteronormative, homophobic America. They accomplished this by sticking to their disco roots by creating a dancing groove with an uplifting timbre, constant pulse, and brass riff that pays homage to the New York City gay community, by playing off of masculinity stereotypes via adopting &#8216;macho&#8217; personas, and by creating a simple, catchy dance that unites crowds nationwide at various events.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/files\/2020\/03\/YHJ63MXXBZQI64WDTWBXKUFSAU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Pictured above are the Village People, which comprised of Alexander Briley (the soldier),\u00a0David Hodo (the construction worker), Glenn Hughes (the leatherman), Randy Jones (the cowboy), Felipe Rose (the Native American), and Victor Willis (the cop). Image was obtained from Getty Images\/CBS Photo Archive.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above video is the music video for the Village People&#8217;s &#8220;Y.M.C.A.&#8221; It was released in 1978 and is set in New York City. Video was obtained from YouTube. Introductory Paragraph\u00a0 Who are the Village People? Who created the group? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/2020\/03\/29\/examining-the-village-peoples-ymca-transforming-a-christian-organization-into-a-gay-anthem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[138742],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus114-08\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}