Publication Type |
thesis |
School or College |
School of Music |
Department |
Music |
Title |
Functions of popular music in the lives of adolescents |
Date |
2010-02-10 |
Description |
This study determines that a specified group of adolescents' favorite songs fulfill Frith's functions of popular music; (a) to create a type of self-definition; (b) to provide a way of managing the relationship between one's private and public emotional lives; (c) to shape popular memory, organize one's sense of time, and intensify a given experience; and (d) to provide a sense of musical ownership, according to those same adolescents' own writings and a survey on that topic. Sophomores from a high school in the Salt Lake Valley were given an assignment that included a one-page essay describing what functions their favorite song performs in their life, and a survey based on Frith's "Functions of Popular Music." The data collected from that assignment were analyzed using a deductive approach described by Mark Abrahamson to determine whether the functions that the students ascribed to their songs matched Frith's functions. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
University of Utah |
Subject |
Music and youth; Group identity |
Language |
eng |
Rights Management |
©Isaac Lamont Bickmore. To comply with copyright, the file for this work may be restricted to The University of Utah campus libraries pending author permission. |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
57,126 bytes |
Identifier |
us-etd2,154409 |
Permissions Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1248892 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6qn6ncn |
Setname |
ir_som |
ID |
193038 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qn6ncn |