Complex Interrelationship between the Way Western Society has opposed the Masculine to the Feminine

Discussion

The gender of an individual plays an important role in his or her entire being. The gender role of a person is sometimes associated with the behavioral norms and considered as males or females in the society. The sexuality of a person became the basis of his entire being and introducing the set of arrangements in which the society makes a rule that divides the gender or sex in different human activity and in which it is needed to be satisfied. The gender has many definitions but he most common type of is based on the concept of the psychology which is about the masculine and feminine. Meanwhile, the gender role is based on the attitudes and behaviors in the identity of one person therefore, to associate oneself in the group of masculine or feminine is based on their gender.

In Western society, the people whose gender appears masculine are sometimes ridiculed for doing what was the society regards as women’s role. In those early times, a person with a man’s feature, masculine voice, beard, or Adam’s apple who is wearing dress and woman’s shoes is considered as a cross-dresser and can draw any attention and is not acceptable in the society for they should act according to their gender roles. And due to the drastic result of the wars, women decided to take the place of the men’s job just to have food in their table. In today’s society, there is a growing acceptance of the inter-sexed or transgendered people but because of the traditional belief, some people may still find their ways as judgmental and can deliver negative impact in the society. However, there are equal rights for the men and women to have or share similar occupations, responsibilities, and jobs that are based according to the knowledge, skills, and abilities, and not on the type of the sex of the person (Dorsey, 2000).

The attributes of the masculine or feminine is not what about being male or female. Masculine and feminine is describes as aspects of the relationship of humans to have water. Masculinity is described as the person having the attributes of being constructed as outward, political, straight, assertive, individualistic, controlling, hard, and technical. While the femininity is describes about being in inward, private, submissive, communal, controlled, soft, and non-technical (Pavia and Mason, 2001).

How this Fundamental Dualism has been applied to Music Historically and Theoretically?

In the presentation of the concept of dualism, there is an emerging idea about the double consciousness. Dualism is considered as the essential meaning or the heart of the dialects that establishes not only the norms of oppression and subordination but also with those the self assurance and self-determination. The double consciousness is the idea of dividing the experience with the self-awareness (Winant, 2004). In the philosophy, the dualism can be presented as the yin and yang which concerns with the dualism of the nature. In a deeper sense, the yin represents the female and yang represents the male counterpart.

In music, dualism can be applied as a musical substance that there are and always have two fundamental different types of music that are roughly corresponding to the feeling and mind. Therefore, there is an expression and the deliberate production of the tones, the music is always magical as the representation in the connection of the words that deliver the purposes (Rudhyar, D., 1928).

What Gender Related Issues do Patterns of Music Consumption Raise or Address in Today's Society?

In the globalization, the youth is expected to act according to the changing world and society. Globally speaking, the culture is the first one is being affected. The increasing connection of the society as well as the youth in the world can be visible in the changing nature between the world’s youth and their sense of identity. As the international culture is growing, the young people receive new ideas such as the foreign cultural practices that are acquainted with food, fashion, and music (Wijbrandi, 2003). In the consumption of music in today’s generation, it is more apparent that both masculine and feminine attract the different kind of audiences, spread their music and create an impact in the mind of the people they touched. Both genders have their own style which is usually according to their genre or type of music. There is also a growing popularity of the duos or group performance but most of the members are significantly according to the gender of the other. For example is the all-girl group that is now very popular in Korea or the all-boy band that is famous in the US. Those people eventually created made it possible to craft their own personality in the eyes of all their fans.

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