Singing “I Will Survive”: Performance as Evolving Relationship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2010
Keywords
music, performance, recorded music, personae, Gloria Gaynor
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708610365474
Abstract
The 1978 disco hit “I Will Survive,” made popular by Gloria Gaynor, has personal significance for me as a listener and as a performer. In this essay, I trace my evolving relationship with this song from my childhood as I sang and listened to the song with my mother to my later performances of the song as a musician in different bands. In telling my story, I look to my various relationships with this song to argue for an analysis of music that complicates and considers the ways in which the listener, performer, and performance work together to shape the ways in which we come to interpret meanings and identities in the cultural performance of music.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
No
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, v. 10, issue 4, p. 326-333.
Scholar Commons Citation
McRae, Chris, "Singing “I Will Survive”: Performance as Evolving Relationship" (2010). Communication Faculty Publications. 571.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/571
