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Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century

Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century

by Alyxandra Vesey (Author)
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Despite the hypervisibility of a constellation of female pop stars, the music business is structured around gender inequality. As a result, women in the music industry often seize on self-branding opportunities in fashion, cosmetics, food, and technology for the purposes of professional longevity. Extending Play examines the ubiquity of brand partnerships in the contemporary music industry through the lens of feminized labor, to demonstrate how female artists use them as a resource for artistic expression and to articulate forms of popular feminism through self-commodification. In this book, author Alyxandra Vesey examines this type of promotional work and examines its proliferation in the early 21st century.Though brand partnerships exist across all media industries, they are a distinct phenomenon for the music business because of their associations with fan club merchandise, concert merchandise, and lifestyle branding, often foregrounding women's participation in shaping these economies through fan labor and image management. Through textual and discourse analysis of artists' songs, music videos, interviews, social media usage, promotional campaigns, marketing strategies, and business decisions, Extending Play investigates how female musicians co-create branded feminine-coded products like perfume, clothes, makeup, and cookbooks and masculine-coded products like music equipment as resources to work through their own ideas about gender and femininity as workers in industries that often use sexism and ageism to diminish women's creative authority and diminish the value of the recording in order to incentivize musicians to internalize the demands of industrial convergence. By merging star studies, popular music studies, and media industry studies, Extending Play proposes an integrated methodology for approaching contemporary cultural history that demonstrates how female-identified musicians have operated as both a hub for industrial convergence and as music industry professionals who use their extramusical skills to reassert their creative acumen. Read more

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PublisherOxford University Press
Publication dateDecember 29, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Print length264 pages
ISBN-100190085649
ISBN-13978-0190085643
Item Weight13.4 ounces
Dimensions9.27 x 0.63 x 6.24 inches
Best Sellers Rank#3,366,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #512 in Performing Arts Industry #2,179 in Music (Books) #3,862 in Women & Business (Books)
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