Journal Entry 8

1. What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides his work)?

Through this research article, the writer is trying to find out how, "to simplify the complex relation between performer and audience in rock music. " Basically he found "4 Real" ways to analyze the relationaship between the performer, the audience, the authenticity of the performance and the function of the music.

2. What sort of texts or sources does the author quote from to build his argument?

To build his argument the writer used a number of articles that related to his research. However he used the majority of the following:
*Journals
*Essays
*Reviews
*Speeches
*Commentators Reponses to music

3. In what ways do you see others around you attempting to establish their authenticity?

Around the world we see performers and celebrities setting the standards in the ways we dress, our diet, or excercising habits, our hairstyles and the way we even hygenically take care of ourselves. Each individual has their own sense of style and sense of belonging in this world. It may not necessarily be a "norm," but it makes the person feel confident about them selves.

"The unstated paradox contained within this formulation is not that an audience accepts as real that which is patently unreal; rather it is that an audience accepts reality, or authenticity, as a performance, without necessarily accepting that its status as performance invalidates it as a true expression of the star’s authentic self. "

Around me every day I see persons wearing what they want to wear, piercing body parts, tattoos, hairstyles, hair colors, shoes they wear, nail polishes (colors and designs), bumper stickers on their cars, writing with messages on people's shirts and a number of other ways in which people's true "authentic self" can be expressed.