This evokes a lot of critical ideas about, e.g., the role of women in patriarchy, the function of female characters/feminized elements in narrative, etc. There’s one female character, portrayed variously by each band member. The video suggests that all the band members are not distinct characters, but in fact the same one. Two notable things about the video: (1) It’s really interesting how they portray the female protagonist. Their fansite has a HUGE list of articles here. In fact, the Beastie Boy’s original drummer, Kate Schellenbach, was part of the group. WOXY played them so much, and gave them so much love I thought they were local, even though they aren’t. So after the Breeders I went with another fabulous 90s indie girl-band, Luscious Jackson. In homage to the old Oxford radio station 97X WOXY, I drew largely from their playlist in the 90s, when I was a student at Miami. The playlist is Oxford-centric, and feminist-centric. Just to remind everyone, I’m doing a series on the playlist I curated for the dinner at philoSOPHIA 2012 at Miami U in Oxford, Ohio.
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