Rebel Girls and Singing Boys: Performing Music and Gender in the Teen Movie

The teen movie Pretty in Pink presents a gendered dichotomy that exists between females as musical connoisseurs and males as emotional performers that is far from rare within the teen movie genre of the mid-1980’s to early 2000’s. These recurring tropes raise important questions about the teen movi...

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Main Author: Theo Cateforis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2009-04-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5155