Journal Entry 8

1. How Rock Bands fight to show their audience that they are for real. They fight to do this while, as the author said, they also “have to fight the industry, the cynicism of the press, and the indifference of the public in order to reach their ideal audience; a group loosely configured as those who will understand them--those who have nothing, not even a band to give them a voice”.

2. The Author uses texts and sources from: "A Star is Born and the Construction of Authenticity." Stardom: Industry of Desire by Richard Dyer, U2 at the End of the World by Bill Flanagan, Performing Rites: On Value In Popular Music and "Music and Identity." Questions of Cultural Identity by Simon Frith, "Blood on the Tracks" by Steve Lamacq, "Bittersweet Epiphany" by Steve Sutherland, and Time Travel by Jon Savage.

3. One particular way that I have grown up seeing how people attempt to establish their “authenticity” is by trying to give a ghetto image to those around them. One way they try to show this to people is by trying to prove to others that they are “tough”. Also, another way they try to establish themselves as “for real” is by explaining themselves to people that they are the way they are based on where they are from. They use this image to excuse themselves from acting proper, at times, and by not trying as hard to succeed in life because they view life as “rough” based on what goes on around them.