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Date Posted: 23:59:28 04/26/05 Tue
Author: Heather Riedel
Subject: Re: Women's Music
In reply to: Jen Stacy 's message, "Women's Music" on 22:40:26 04/13/05 Wed

I was struggling to find a definition of Women's music that I could relate with even after reading the Jones book. I found a quote at the end of her book, that after analyzing it, made me realize what it does mean to me. I shared this quote with my journal group and I thought I would share it with everyone: the author quotes her Rhizomatic character saying, my music �resists a singular rhythmic pattern and sensibility. Music that is polyrhythmic and incomplete. Music that requires the listener, the dancer, to complete the rhythm.� Later he also states that: �My music produces multiple, contradictory, and unsteady rhythms. It resists static interpretation, renders me incapable of creating the music alone. It�s the same for women�s music, and for her, for this work.� At first I thought Women's music was music written by women, for women and about women. But then I realized that it can be more than that. I think it can be for and by men as well as women. I think women's music is music that the listener interacts with and gets a message out of. Without the listener, it wouldn't be women's music.

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