{"id":71,"date":"2018-11-07T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:25:55","slug":"how-artists-in-the-1980s-have-paved-the-way-for-the-representation-of-the-lgbtqia-community-in-music-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/how-artists-in-the-1980s-have-paved-the-way-for-the-representation-of-the-lgbtqia-community-in-music-today\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ Representation in Music from the 1970s to Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Mia Swartz<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW188960639\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188960639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-275\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2018\/12\/rainbowflagmp-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2018\/12\/rainbowflagmp-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2018\/12\/rainbowflagmp-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2018\/12\/rainbowflagmp-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2018\/12\/rainbowflagmp.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW188960639\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188960639\">For my subsection of the project, I will be discussing the way in which music from the 1980\u2019s to now has given representation to the LGBTQIA+ community in pop culture, as well as to pay tribute to those victimized within the community&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW188960639\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188960639\">following hate crimes specifically in music videos. I plan to discuss the influence of David Bowie on the expression of sexuality in the 70s and 80sas he was so inspirational in that sense to so many people, beginning with his donation of the song &#8220;All the Young Dudes&#8221; to the band Mott the Hoople. In terms of today, I am going to talk about the success of songs such as \u201cSame Love\u201d by Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis, \u201cBorn This Way\u201d by Lady Gaga, and \u201cTake Me t<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW188960639\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188960639\">o<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW188960639\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188960639\">&nbsp;Church\u201d by Hozier in using their music videos to shed light on the struggles of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as to celebrate the culture. Lastly, I will explore the effect of Sia\u2019s music video for the song \u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW188960639\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188960639\">The<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW188960639\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW188960639\">&nbsp;Greatest\u201d, which she created specifically to honor the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/all-the-young-dudes-by-mott-the-hoople\/\">Next Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mia Swartz For my subsection of the project, I will be discussing the way in which music from the 1980\u2019s to now has given representation to the LGBTQIA+ community in pop culture, as well as to pay tribute to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":969,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/musc099-04\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}