Sexy Shapes: Girls negotiating gender through popular music
2013 (English)In: Girlhood Studies, ISSN 1938-8209, E-ISSN 1938-8322, Vol. 6, no 2, p. 30-46Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013. Vol. 6, no 2, p. 30-46
Keywords [en]
Ethnicity, ethnography, gender, girls, multicultural, popular music, sexuality
National Category
Ethnology Gender Studies
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-69254DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2013.060204OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-69254DiVA, id: diva2:1167176
2013-10-312017-12-182022-11-28Bibliographically approved