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Journal Article
Rebel girls and singing boys: performing music and gender in the teen movie
2009
Overview
From \"Pretty in Pink\" and \"Some Kind of Wonderful\" to \"10 Things I Hate About You\" and \"Juno,\" again and again female characters are positioned as social outsiders via their devotion to alternative musical tastes. Likewise, in films as varied as \"American Pie,\" \"She's All That,\" and \"Napoleon Dynamite,\" teenage boys repeatedly assume the roles of dynamic performers. The teen movie's soundtrack is viewed through the lenses of gender identity, musical genre, and the cinematic conventions of popular song scoring. As a \"coming of age\" film, the teen movie deals specifically with the gendered rites of passage that mark the symbolic transition from adolescence to adulthood. Music in these films can thus help underscore a character's social transformation. A brief historical overview of the teen movie genre's birth in the mid-1950s and its musical scoring are presented. The changes that occurred in the early 1980s which ultimately served to redefine the teen movie are described. Specifically, this new wave of teen movies began to portray adolescence in a way that resembles anthropologist Victor Turner's description of the \"liminal journey,\" a socially defined process marked by rites of passage toward adulthood.
Publisher
Columbia University, Department of Music,Department of Music, Columbia University,Columbia University Libraries
