TY - JOUR
T1 - Girlhoods in the Golden Age of U.S. Radio
T2 - Music, Shared Popular Culture, and Memory
AU - Mazzarella, Sharon R.
AU - Hains, Rebecca C.
AU - Thiel-Stern, Shayla
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - Memory and storytelling can provide valuable tools for media scholars aiming to better understand popular media audiences from a historical perspective. Girls' stories are particularly important because they have been absent from most official recorded history and archived documents. In this study, we interview 30 U.S. women born 1918-1948 in order to uncover their girlhood experiences with mid-20th Century media. Their narratives reveal 1) a shared experience of radio listening; 2) an emphasis on the "experience" of using media artifacts rather than on the content; and 3) the appeal of music and dance as a girlhood pastimes.
AB - Memory and storytelling can provide valuable tools for media scholars aiming to better understand popular media audiences from a historical perspective. Girls' stories are particularly important because they have been absent from most official recorded history and archived documents. In this study, we interview 30 U.S. women born 1918-1948 in order to uncover their girlhood experiences with mid-20th Century media. Their narratives reveal 1) a shared experience of radio listening; 2) an emphasis on the "experience" of using media artifacts rather than on the content; and 3) the appeal of music and dance as a girlhood pastimes.
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U2 - 10.1080/19376529.2013.777731
DO - 10.1080/19376529.2013.777731
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84877907832
SN - 1937-6529
VL - 20
SP - 117
EP - 133
JO - Journal of Radio and Audio Media
JF - Journal of Radio and Audio Media
IS - 1
ER -