Righteous sounds and reproductive justice : the influence of Ani DiFranco's music for reproductive rights activists
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Abstract
In this thesis, I explore how the folk-rock music of Ani DiFranco has influenced the \nactivist commitments, sensibilities, and activities of reproductive rights activists. My \ninterest in the relation of popular music to social movements is informed by the work of \nSimon Frith (1987, 1996a, 1996b), Rob Rosenthal (2001), and Ann Savage (2003). Frith \nargues that popular music is an important contributor to personal identity and the ways \nthat listeners see the world. Savage (2003) writes that fans develop a unique relationship \nwith feminist/political music, and Rosenthal (2001) argues that popular music can be an \nimportant factor in building social movements. I use these arguments to ask what the \ninfluence of Ani DiFranco's music has been for reproductive rights activists who are her \nfans. \nI conducted in-depth interviews with ten reproductive rights activists who are fans of Ani \nDiFranco's music. All ten are women in their twenties and thirties living in Ontario or \nNew York. Each has been listening to DiFranco's music for between two and fifteen \nyears, and has considered herself a reproductive rights activist for between eighteen \nmonths and twenty years. \nI examine these women's narratives of their relationships with Ani DiFranco's music and \ntheir activist experience through the interconnected lenses of identity, consciousness, and \npractice. Listening to Ani DiFranco's music affects the fluid ways these women \nunderstand their identities as women, as feminists, and in solidarity with others. I draw on \nFreire's (1970) understanding of conscientization to consider the role that Ani's music \nhas played in heightening women's awareness about reproductive rights issues. The \nfeeling of solidarity with other (both real and perceived) activist fans gives them more \nconfidence that they can make a difference in overcoming social injustice. They believe \nthat Ani's music encourages productive anger, which in turn fuels their passion to take \naction to make change. Women use Ani's music deliberately for energy and \nencouragement in their continued activism, and find that it continues to resonate with \ntheir evolving identities as women, feminists, and activists. \nMy study builds on those of Rosenthal (2001) and Savage (2003) by focusing on one \nartist and activists in one social movement. The characteristics of Ani DiFranco, her fan \nbase, and the reproductive rights movement allow new understanding of the ways that \nfemale fans who are members of a female-dominated feminist movement interact with \nthe music of a popular independent female artist.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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