Ok, two last things:
1. I'm curious to know if this person is applying for a PhD in
Performance (which would actually make it a DMA in most parts), or
rather in a Cultural Studies/Ethnomusicology/Anthropology sort of
study of Air Guitar as a social phenomenon. If it's the latter, then
that is nothing new, and no more or less silly than a doctorate on
the use of slang and neologisms in Buffy episodes (a real diss. topic).
2. As much as it is easy to make fun of someone (in this case a
woman, which adds another layer of meaning in this context) who wants
to do a PhD in Air Guitar, I'm reminded of the derisive laughter I
used to get (and sometimes still do get) when I first started to
study electronic dance music. A couple of decades ago, scholars got
the same treatment for studying Rock and Jazz music (especially the
racially-inflected stuff). What is acceptable and what is "silly"
says a lot about tides of cultural power, and it does not seem to
bode well for women and guitars.
Luis
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