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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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Author:   Mary Beth Ray
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031552168

ISBN 10:   3031552164
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   07 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction – The Adolescentia Project.- Chapter 2: Part I – The 1980s.- Chapter 3: Something I can say, something I can do: I’ve come for my Emotional Rescue.- Chapter 4: “What’s it like to be a fucked-up teenager?”: Violent Femmes, A Primal Scream for Generation X.-  Chapter 5: Cultivating a Rebel Without a Pause.- Chapter 6: Part II – The 1990s.- Chapter 7: “A Long Way from Boston”: Loving and Listening to New Kids on the Block as a Jamaican Adolescent.- Chapter 8: The Magic of “Blacks’ Magic”.- Chapter 9: Prude Pirates and other Contradictory Bodies: Gender, Ideology, and Identity in Adolescence.- Chapter 10: “Destroy the mind, destroy the body, but you cannot destroy the heart”: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and the reclamation of a teenage fat body during the “Age of Fatphobia”.- Chapter 11: Rage Against the Machine’s Evil Empire: An Autoethnography of Music and Political Socialization in Early Adolescence.- Chapter 12: “What am I supposed to do?” Cher’s “Believe” and the Siren Call of a Gay Icon.- Chapter 13: Part III – The 2000s.- Chapter 14:  Everything Will Change: Revisiting The Postal Service’s Give Up.- Chapter 15: OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: Musical Theatre, Performance, and Style.- Chapter 16: (Nonbinary Panic!) at the Disco: A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.- Chapter 17: “I’m All Out of Love”: Nostalgic Music through the Lens of a Queer Asian Immigrant.- Chapter 18: Raising my voice: Japanese visual kei and musical (self-)discovery.- Chapter 19: The Little Trans Monster: Gender Actualization and Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster.- Chapter 20: Conclusion: Looking Back and Moving Forward – The Courage to Become Who We Are.

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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.

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