{"product_id":"tween-pop-childrens-music-and-public-culture-paperback","title":"Tween Pop: Children's Music and Public Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTyler Bickford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of the twenty-first century, the US music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but that still felt safe for children. In \u003ci\u003eTween Pop\u003c\/i\u003e Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the \"tween\" music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture. The industry played on long-standing gendered and racialized constructions of childhood as feminine and white--both central markers of innocence and childishness. In addition to Kidz Bop, \u003ci\u003eHigh School Musical\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Disney Channel's music programs, Bickford examines Taylor Swift in relation to girlhood and whiteness, Justin Bieber's childish immaturity, and Miley Cyrus\/Hannah Montana and postfeminist discourses of work-life balance. In outlining how tween pop imagined and positioned childhood as both intimate and public as well as a cultural identity to be marketed to, Bickford demonstrates the importance of children's music to core questions of identity politics, consumer culture, and the public sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTyler Bickford is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and author of \u003ci\u003eSchooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children's Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42164528939143,"sku":"9781478008194","price":51.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/65179551151d18079846252b7c2eb22f.webp?v=1733306576","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/tween-pop-childrens-music-and-public-culture-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}