OR: CRAB RANGOON TO GO

AVAINSANAT: Kulttuurinen musiikintutkimus, sadomasokismi, musiikki, elokuva-

musiikki, musiikkivideo, ooppera, queer-musiikintutkimus, feministinen tutkimus,

queer-tutkimus, populaarikulttuuri, Secretary, Duke of Burgundy, Leonard Cohen, Elvis

Costello, Rihanna, Mozart, Don Giovanni, esitystutkimus, seksuaalisuus

In this dissertation I study musical, sonic and multimodal representations of sadomaso-

chistic erotica in films, music videos, stage performances, and popular music. The study

consists of an introductory chapter (1), a theoretical chapter on sadomasochism (2), three

chapters discussing six case studies (3–5), as well as discussion and conclusion chapters

(6 and 7).  examples investigated are the films Secretary 

 (2003) and

Duke of Burgundy

(2014), Leonard Cohen’s song ‘I’m Your Man’ (1988), Elvis Costello’s song ‘When I Was

Cruel No. 2’ (2002), Rihanna’s song and music video

S&M 

 (2011), and a filmed operatic

production of W. A. Mozart’s

Don Giovanni

 focusing on the character Zerlina (1787; dir.

Claus Guth, 2008). In the conclusion, I briefly discuss the film

Fiddy Shades of Grey 

 (2015)

as an example of post-feminist, neoliberal sadomasochism occurring at the time of writing

interlude: orderly, orderly, orderly:

Chef chu

Mu shu pork

Small chinese chicken salad

Pork won ton soup

Egg rolls

Snow white chicken

Pork fried rice

Someone else wrote an entire book about crab rangoon, what a scam it was, how they don’t even have cream cheese in china — I’ve never ordered it from Chef Chu but I noticed that they had it on the menu Monday under the name “crab and cheese puffs $9.95”

Broccoli garlic sauce

University of Turku

Faculty of Humanities

School of History, Culture, and Art Studies

Musicology

Juno Doctoral programme

Supervised by 

Prof. John Richardson, University of Turku

Dr. Susanna Välimäki, University of Turku

Prof. Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku

Reviewed by 

Prof. Lori Burns, University of Ottawa

Prof. Robynn Stilwell, Georgetown University

Opponent

Prof. Robynn Stilwell, Georgetown University

SOUND KINKS:

Sadomasochistic Erotica

in Audiovisual Music Performances

Thank you, India —as Alanis would say — thank you Turkey and…are you finished? 

Anna-Elena Pääkkölä.  The internet offered this to me for no apparent reason — maybe they are mining my data. 

Wired says that a neon who ran for public office has been hacked by Putin and his army of masterbating trolls, who dip their balls in vodka for export. And are indeed building a tower taller than Hoover and only 3 miles away. At he old Sunset campus. At Dartmouth in the 19780s “hoover” was slang for oral sex. 

Don’t worry ma I’m only blogging.