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SUMMARY:Grease and the Remasculinization of America: Marci Ray
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 This talk argues that the film adaptation of the 
 musical Grease (1978) is a nostalgic look 
 at 1950s rock and roll and, in particular, the 
 masculine ideal it created. In the late 1970s, 
 Grease contributed to a larger cultural endeavor, 
 as Susan Jefferds has put it, to "remasculinize" 
 America-in this case, particularly 
 for audiences, who felt threatened by the 
 rise of disco and its associations with alternative 
 masculinities. This film responds to what 
 amounted to a moral panic about the death 
 of rock music, because its alleged death heralded 
 the decline of hegemonic white, middle-class, 
 heterosexual masculinity.\n
 Cosponsored 
 by Music in American Life.\n
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 http://music.msu.edu/faculty/profile/marcie\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Mary Black\n
 Contact email: blackma@mail.lib.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:North Conference Room (W449), MSU Main Library
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