lnu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Sexy Shapes: Girls negotiating gender through popular music
Södertörns högskola.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2540-8497
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
Available from: 2013-10-31 Created: 2017-12-18 Last updated: 2022-11-28Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full text

Authority records

Werner, Ann

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Werner, Ann
In the same journal
Girlhood Studies
EthnologyGender Studies

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 536 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf