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The Family 'Playlist': Popular music, age and identity

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Daniel A Padua

Publication year - 2017

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Dissertations/theses

DOI - 10.5204/thesis.eprints.110533

Subject(s) - popular music , identity (music) , popular culture , swift , consumption (sociology) , queen (butterfly) , sociology , cultural studies , gender studies , media studies , art , aesthetics , visual arts , social science , anthropology , computer science , hymenoptera , botany , biology , programming language

Popular music is central to the understanding of youth culture and has come to represent the so-called 'generation gap'. This thesis, however, argues that popular music is no longer just a signifier of generational tension. It is now an increasingly significant cultural resource that allows parents and their children to establish and maintain family relations. Using interviews from families who are fans of Queen or Taylor Swift, this research investigates how shared practices around popular music consumption contribute to a cohesive family identity

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