Abstract
The study examines the patriarchal social orders comprising social values, norms, concepts and ideologies that are
(re)produced, established and maintained through discourse.
The researchers undertook Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi musical discourse i.e. songs which are popular among Pakistanis to analyze that how patriarch-centered ideologies are (re)produced
and reinforced through above mentioned discourse. Since
musical discourse can be interpreted as social practice, it
mulls overcertainways of representing maininclination of the
social (musical) domain. A form of Critical Discourse Analysis
named Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis (FCDA) has been
applied to critique the aforementioned discourse as Lazar
(2005, p.5)statesthat discourses sustain a patriarchal social
order i.e. relations of power that systematically privilege men
as a social group and disadvantage, exclude and disempower
women as a social group. FCDA has therefore been taken asKAROONJHAR [Reseach Journal]
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theoretical framework, then a triangulation of van Dijk’s
(2008) “Socio-cognitive Approach” with “Social Representation Theory” by Moscovici (1972) is formulated to analyze selected data i.e. Urdu/Hindi/Punjabisongs.The study exploitsideas of “male” and “dominance” to find out the reciprocation of gender, male dominance and possible implications
on audiences’conception.The findings indicate that said musical discourse helps in sustaining patriarchal hegemony and
gender inequality. The discourse exploits various strategies in
order to naturalize stereotypical roles of male and female. This
study also suggests that critical analysts need to challenge implicit social values and decided images for male and female to
voice the depressed i.e. women.
Muhammad Akbar Khan, Muhammad AjmalKhurshid, Nazir Ahmed Malik. (2018) Subsistence Of Patriarchal Social Orders Through Musical Discourse: A Feminist Critical Study, Karoonjhar Research Journal, Volume 18-19, Issue-1.
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