Sexy Shapes
Girls Negotiating Gender through Popular Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Werner (0000-0002-2540-8497, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2013.060204 |
| OpenAlex | W2097890865 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork done with a group of 14 to 16 year-old girls in a medium sized Swedish town. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between everyday music use and gender, ethnicity and sexuality. The question posed here is: "What negotiations take place when the girls discuss their favorite music and artists?" Research in response to this question shows that the identity work of negotiating how to be a teenage girl often relates to popular culture. The sample focuses on girls from Swedish, Bosnian, Turkish and Syrian backgrounds. In this article I report on the local ideas about gender and ethnicity claimed by the girls to influence their discussion of music, dress and behavior, as well as the desires that I argue structure such discussion. This research supports contemporary findings that mainstream popular music has cultural and social significance in young girls' lives
Aesthetics · Art · Bosnian · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Girl · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Mainstream · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Popular culture · Popular music · Social science · Sociology · Turkish · Visual arts · Youth culture · Anthropology · Diverse Music Education Insights · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social and Educational Sciences
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |