{"product_id":"tween-pop-childrens-music-and-public-culture-1","title":"Tween Pop","description":"In 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.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49717810233688,"sku":"9781478006855","price":94.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781478006855.jpg?v=1777809618","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tween-pop-childrens-music-and-public-culture-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}