Tween Pop – Children′s Music and Public Culture Bickford Paperback 9781478008194

Tween Pop\nby Tyler Bickford\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tyler Bickford\nTitle: Tween Pop\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Music: styles and genres\nPublisher: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9781478008194\nISBN-10: 1478008199\nRRP: \u00A324.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn 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 Tween Pop 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 centr.