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dc.contributor.authorWellman, Amy R.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-23T22:19:09Z
dc.date.available2018-05-23T22:19:09Z
dc.date.issued2012-08
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/8427
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2012en_US
dc.description.abstractMusic in today's society is ubiquitous. It is in the car, the cinema, on television, in the doctor's office, in the home, on the other end of the phone; it really is everywhere. Music arguably is a large part of culture and as such, has the ability to construct social realities. In hopes to understand how media constructs the image of the female, a contextual analysis was performed on the lyrics of the top twenty-five country and pop songs according to Billboard.com. This was done using Grounded Theory through the employment of coding. Results showed that although country and pop music depict women in a slightly different manner, they both for the most part depict women in traditional gender roles. Furthermore, the propitiation and adherence to traditional gender roles sustain and conciliate patriarchy. Therefore the depictions of women in the music lyrics were then analyzed as processes of patriarchy.en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents1. Literature review -- 1.1. Media : the portrait of woman -- 1.1.1. Music -- 1.1.2. Television -- 1.2.3. Film -- 1.2. Intersectionality in the representation of women in the media -- 1.2.1. Black women in the media -- 1.2.1.1. General -- 1.2.1.2. Music -- 1.2.1.3. Television -- 1.2.1.4. Film -- 1.2.2. Native American and Alaskan Native women -- 1.2.3. Latina women -- 1.2.3.1. Music -- 1.2.3.2. Film -- 1.2.4. Asian women -- 1.2.4.1. Television -- 1.2.4.2. Film -- 1.3. Rationale of study -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1. Grounded theory -- 2.2. Method -- 2.3. Data collection -- 2.4. Data analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1. Country music -- 3.1.1. Male's depiction -- 3.1.1.1. Country cutie -- 3.1.1.2. Family -- 3.1.1.3. The prop -- 3.1.1.4. Kryptonite -- 3.1.1.5. Liminal ladies -- 3.1.2. Females' depiction of self -- 3.1.2.1. Heartbroken -- 3.1.3. Duets -- 3.1.3.1. Virgin -- 3.2. Pop music -- 3.2.1. Male's depiction of female -- 3.2.1.1. Gold digger -- 3.2.1.2. Sex object -- 3.2.1.3. Bad woman -- 3.2.2. Females' depiction of self -- 3.2.2.1. Bad girl -- 3.2.2.2. Empowerment -- 3.2.2.3. Inspirational -- 3.2.2.4. Broken hearted bitch -- 3.2.2.5. Dynamic women -- 3.2.3. Duets -- 3.2.4. Emergent themes -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1. Patriarchy -- 4.2. Social construction of gender -- 4.3. Traditional female gender roles -- 4.4. Emergent theme -- 4.5. Country music and pop music : a patriarchal process -- 4.5.1. Processes of patriarchy -- 4.5.2. Country cutie and the sex object -- 4.5.2.1. Beauty ideals -- 4.5.2.2. Sexual objectification -- 4.5.3. Family -- 4.5.4. The prop -- 4.5.5. Kryptonite and the bad woman -- 4.5.6. Heartbroken and the revengeful/broken hearted bitch -- 4.5.7. Virgin -- 4.5.8. Gold digger -- 4.5.9. Bad girl and the empowered -- 4.5.10. Dynamic women and the liminal ladies -- 4.5.11. Subjugated woman -- 4.6. Theoretical exploration -- 4.6.1. Symbolic interactionism -- 4.6.2. Critical theory -- 4.7. Limitations -- 4.8. Implications of further research -- 4.9. Conclusion -- References.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectWomen in musicen_US
dc.subjectSex role in musicen_US
dc.subjectSex role in mass mediaen_US
dc.subjectWomen in mass mediaen_US
dc.subjectWomen in popular cultureen_US
dc.subjectMale domination (Social structure)en_US
dc.subjectPatriarchyen_US
dc.titleMusic: a portrait of womanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.degreemaen_US
dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Communicationen_US
dc.contributor.chairDeCaro, Peter
dc.contributor.committeeRichey, Jean
dc.contributor.committeeAnahita, Sine
refterms.dateFOA2020-03-05T15:51:48Z


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