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  • Taking it in the ear: On musico-sexual synergies and the (queer) possibility that music is sex

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    Taylor, Jodie
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    Taylor, Jodie L.
    Year published
    2012
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    Across ages and cultures, music's relationship to sexual allure and its adept capacity for invoking pleasure, eroticism, and desire are well established. Music's ability to arouse and channel sexual urges and desires renders it both a dynamic mode of gender and sexual signification and a putative agent of moral corruption. Music can convey coded sexual innuendo, give shape to a person's erotic agency, or constitute a significant part of their sexual identity. For some, listening to music may, in fact, be considered an erotically pleasurable or even a sexual act. Drawing selectively on music's erotic history, on queer ...
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    Across ages and cultures, music's relationship to sexual allure and its adept capacity for invoking pleasure, eroticism, and desire are well established. Music's ability to arouse and channel sexual urges and desires renders it both a dynamic mode of gender and sexual signification and a putative agent of moral corruption. Music can convey coded sexual innuendo, give shape to a person's erotic agency, or constitute a significant part of their sexual identity. For some, listening to music may, in fact, be considered an erotically pleasurable or even a sexual act. Drawing selectively on music's erotic history, on queer erotic possibilities, as well as on contemporary accounts of musicallymediated eroticism and identity situated across a broad range of popular genres, this paper will examine the way music can be used to catalyze and negotiate erotic pleasures. Specifically, it will examine this in terms of what the author names as 'musico-sexual synergies'. These include: music as a stylistic marker of sexual identity; music as a structuring device for sexual action; and the fetishization of music and/or sound - that is, the sexual fetish known as 'auralism'.
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    Journal Title
    Continuum
    Volume
    26
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2012.698039
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Continuum, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 603-614. Continuum is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
    Subject
    Culture, Gender, Sexuality
    Musicology and Ethnomusicology
    Film, Television and Digital Media
    Communication and Media Studies
    Cultural Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/47516
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