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Elizabeth K. Keenan Wins 2007 Lise Waxer Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology
Congratulations are in order for Elizabeth K. Keenan, who won the 2007 Lise Waxer Prize for the best student paper on popular music for her paper given at the 2006 SEM conference in Hawai'i, "Straightyfest, Ladyquest, Ladyfest: Femininity, Sexuality, and Third Wave Feminism at Young Women's Rock Music Festivals." The Lise Waxer Prize is sponsored by the Popular Music Section of SEM.
Ms. Keenan is completing her dissertation, "Acting Like a Lady: Popular Music, Third Wave Feminism, and the Middle Class," which addresses the impact of popular culture on feminism—and feminism on popular culture—within the United States through an ethnographic study of young, white, middle-class women’s involvement with a series of grassroots, feminist punk rock music festivals called “Ladyfest.” This work addresses many of the issues that affect both popular music and feminism in the United States, such as the performance of gender and sexuality; generational rebellion; relationships between consumer culture and femininity; and the interaction between race, class, and gender in the production of musical communities.
Ms. Keenan is completing her dissertation, "Acting Like a Lady: Popular Music, Third Wave Feminism, and the Middle Class," which addresses the impact of popular culture on feminism—and feminism on popular culture—within the United States through an ethnographic study of young, white, middle-class women’s involvement with a series of grassroots, feminist punk rock music festivals called “Ladyfest.” This work addresses many of the issues that affect both popular music and feminism in the United States, such as the performance of gender and sexuality; generational rebellion; relationships between consumer culture and femininity; and the interaction between race, class, and gender in the production of musical communities.
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