{"id":8012,"date":"2010-07-14T18:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2013-05-14T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:46:52","slug":"queer-punk-macha-femme-leslie-mah%e2%80%99s-musical-performance-in-tribe-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8012","title":{"rendered":"Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah\u2019s Musical Performance in Tribe 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/csc.sagepub.com\/content\/10\/4\/295.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah\u2019s Musical Performance in Tribe 8<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csc.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Studies\u2194Critical Methodologies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/csc.sagepub.com\/content\/vol10\/issue4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 10, Number 4 (August 2010)<\/a><br \/>\npages 295-306<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/academics\/communication\/faculty\/dshoemaker.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Deanna Shoemaker<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Applied Communication (Performance Studies)<br \/>\n<em>Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay analyzes the musical performances of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Mah\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Mah<\/a>, biracial lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the legendary all-female, queercore punk band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tribe_8\" target=\"_blank\">Tribe 8<\/a>, whose members broke up in 2005 after fifteen years together. Inspired by the recent turn in performance studies toward studies of music as performance, this work employs multiple methods and objects to get at the complex totality of popular music\u2019s performativity. Mah\u2019s <em>macha femme<\/em> persona, playing style, and performance of identity as a lesbian woman of color within <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queercore\" target=\"_blank\">queercore punk<\/a> music allow her to enter a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carnivalesque\" target=\"_blank\">carnivalesque<\/a> realm of feminist menace, palpable rage, and unruly pleasure. <strong>Mah\u2019s performance strategies and articulations of her queer and biracial identities in interviews are contextualized within feminist performance, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riot_Grrrl\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>riot grrrl<\/strong><\/a><strong>, and punk music studies.<\/strong> Tribe 8\u2019s lyrics, music, marketing, and band member personas provide cultural context for Mah\u2019s distinctive performance of <em>macha femme<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase\u00a0the article <a href=\"http:\/\/csc.sagepub.com\/content\/10\/4\/295.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queer Punk Macha Femme: Leslie Mah\u2019s Musical Performance in Tribe 8 Cultural Studies\u2194Critical Methodologies Volume 10, Number 4 (August 2010) pages 295-306 Deanna Shoemaker, Assistant Professor of Applied Communication (Performance Studies) Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey This essay analyzes the musical performances of Leslie Mah, biracial lead guitarist and backup vocalist for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,666,125,1196,8,20,25],"tags":[3366,3367,3368,1392,3369],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-gaylesbian","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-cultural-studiescritical-methodologies","tag-deanna-shoemaker","tag-leslie-mah","tag-music","tag-tribe-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}