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SUMMARY:The Feminist Prince Wars: Tracing the Workings of  Music and Sex i
 n 1980s Minneapolis - Elliot Powell (Associate Professor of American Studi
 es and Asian American Studies\, University of Minnesota)
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CONTACT:Lindsay Friday
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the relationship between the rise to fame o
 f Minneapolis-based artist Prince in the early-to-mid 1980s and Minneapoli
 s’ central role in shaping the anti-pornography feminist debates during 
 the same period. In essence\, this talk traces the resonances between Prin
 ce’s “porn rock” and the anti-pornography debates known as the “po
 rn wars.” The central question organizing this talk is: What can Prince 
 tell us about the porn wars and what can the porn wars teach us about Prin
 ce? I argue that we cannot understand Prince’s 1980s music without consi
 dering the porn wars in Minneapolis\, and that histories of the porn wars 
 are inadequate if they do not include analyses of Prince. Specifically\, I
  show how Prince reoriented conventional understandings of the porn wars t
 hat framed them through white feminism\, and instead drew on and centered 
 Black feminist aesthetics of sexuality.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 2\, Faculty of Music\, West Road
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