Changing Courtship Patterns in the Popular Song

Bibliographic Data

ID2207108
AuthorsJames T Carey (corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume74
Issue6
Pages720-731
Publication date1969-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/224722
OpenAlexW1975819401
LanguageEN
Citations received70

A content analysis of popular lyrics drawn from song magazines and accepted ranking reveals a change in perspective on boy-girl relationship over the past eleven years. The new orientation prizes autonomy in personal relations and is most clearly portrayed in rock and roll lyrics. The career of the affairs is traced from its inception to its final dissolution. Proportionally fewer lyrics deal with boy-girl relationships today than in the mid-1950's. A wider range of concerns are evident and raise questions about the individual's relation to the social order. The questions may reflect the preocupations of a growing number of disaffected young people who constitute the audience for the new lyrics, or the emergence of more democratic controls in songwriting

Art · Autonomy · Courtship · Democracy · Developmental psychology · Girl · Literature · Lyrics · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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