Overview
- Foregrounds autoethnographic methods
- Highlights contributors’ material and technological conditions of listening, & their emotional response to adolescence
- Studies popular music across a range of genres from the 1980s to the 2020s
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Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity: The Adolescentia Project explores music consumption, self-discovery, media culture, and memory through autoethnographic essays on albums we loved during adolescence covering three decades (1980-2010) as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes in the United States significantly changed. The collection advances our understanding of music culture, identity, and adolescence in three ways. First, by expanding our knowledge of the shifting relationship between music and identity by using historical methods to examine changes in music culture and socio-cultural landscapes from 1980 to 2010. Second, by interrogating the role of musical memory and the act of cultural remembering by including autoethnographic reflective essays charting contributors' experiences of understanding and performing self through a particularly formative album of their adolescence. And third, by critiquing the act of music consumption in relation to identity construction and cultural remembering. By examining these influential albums, we can better understand the role of popular culture in identity construction and the long-term impact of these formative musical experiences.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Mary Beth Ray is an Associate Professor and Chair of Communication & Media Studies and Co-Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Plymouth State University who writes about internet culture, gender, and popular music. She holds a Ph.D. from Temple University’s Mass Media and Communication Program and an M.A. in Media Studies from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communication. Dr. Ray is a long-time co-chair for the Popular Culture Association’s Internet Culture Area, as well as co-chair of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association’s Music Area. Her first book Digital Connectivity and Music Culture – Artists & Accomplices (2017), was published by Palgrave MacMillan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity
Book Subtitle: The Adolescentia Project
Editors: Mary Beth Ray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55217-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55216-8Published: 07 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55219-9Due: 08 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-55217-5Published: 06 June 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Music, Youth Culture