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Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture

Tyler Bickford

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Description:In the early years of the twenty-first century the U.S. music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but which still felt safe for children. In Tween Pop Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the “tween” music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture. The industry played on longstanding gendered and racialized constructions of childhood as feminine and white—both central markers of innocence and childishness. In addition to Kidz Bop, High School Musical, and the Disney Channel's music programs, Bickford examines Taylor Swift in relation to girlhood and whiteness, Justin Bieber's childish immaturity, and Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and postfeminist discourses of work-life balance. In outlining how tween pop imagined and positioned childhood as both intimate and public as well as a cultural identity to be marketed to, Bickford demonstrates the importance of childrens music to core questions of identity politics, consumer culture, and the public sphere.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture. To get started finding Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the early years of the twenty-first century the U.S. music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but which still felt safe for children. In Tween Pop Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the “tween” music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture. The industry played on longstanding gendered and racialized constructions of childhood as feminine and white—both central markers of innocence and childishness. In addition to Kidz Bop, High School Musical, and the Disney Channel's music programs, Bickford examines Taylor Swift in relation to girlhood and whiteness, Justin Bieber's childish immaturity, and Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and postfeminist discourses of work-life balance. In outlining how tween pop imagined and positioned childhood as both intimate and public as well as a cultural identity to be marketed to, Bickford demonstrates the importance of childrens music to core questions of identity politics, consumer culture, and the public sphere.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture. To get started finding Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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