I've been browsing around and I think I've found some solid sources for my research. Check them out below.
On another note, I'm getting a bit miffed because I wrote an extensive e-mail to my previous boss at Tiger Beat last week, inquiring whether she would be willing to answer a few questions about her observations. She hasn't responded, and over the summer she was always pretty quick to respond. I don't know if I should try again, rephrasing so that it is more brief, or I should just give up and focus on other sources.
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ARTICLES
Can High School Musical Do it Again?
High School Musical: Creating a Pop Phenom
Hannah Montana Star Ready to Break Out, Hilary Style
Disney Taps Wants, Wallets of ‘tweens
Disney Channel on Wikipedia
WEBSITES TO BROWSE
Tiger Beat
Disney Channel
Radio Disney
MUSIC VIDEOS
HSM: Breaking Free / What I’ve Been Looking For
Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds / At the White House / Virginity Vow
Jonas Brothers: SOS / on Hannah Montana
Emily Osment: I Don't Think About It
Corbin Bleu: Push It
Vanessa Hudgens: Say Ok
Ashley Tisdale: He Said She Said
BOOKS
The great tween buying machine: capturing your share of the multi-billion-dollar tween market
By David L. Siegel, Timothy J. Coffey, and Gregory Livingston
(link)
The Wonderful World of Disney Television
By Bill Coter
(link / link)
“Tween” Scene: Resistence within the Mainstream in Music Scenes
By Melanie Lowe
In Music Scenes (yay!)
3 comments:
Caitlin,
Sometimes people are a bit taken aback if you send them a long list of questions out of the blue. You may have better results if you ask your former boss for a telephone interview. On the other hand, she may be delaying response until she has time to sit down and answer all your questions.
Whatever the case, you may want to send a very polite note asking if she's thinking about her reply, and offering an alternative way for her to participate.
This project is going to be great. I know that it can be frustrating to try to contact people like your former boss -- people who work in the media industry are just incredibly busy, and they also sometimes have to be very careful about how they represent their product "on the record," even (or especially) for a scholarly research project. You should definitely continue to pursue other leads while you wait to see if you can get your boss involved. (James's advice for the follow-up contact is very good, I think.)
You might want to look at some of the older literature on teen-girl culture (some of it is cited in the chapter we're reading for class). Angela McRobbie has been a key scholar in this area for a long time; see for example this relatively recent piece:
McRobbie, Angela. 1993. "Shut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity." Cultural Studies 7(3):406-426.
Also, this collection contains a lot of work on "active audiences," debunking the myth of the passive media consumer:
Barker, Martin and Julian Petley, eds. 2001. Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate (Second Edition). New York: Routledge.
And this collection may have some relevant material:
Askew, Kelly and Richard Wilk, eds. 2002. The Anthropology of the Media: A Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
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