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dc.contributor.authorBaker, S
dc.contributor.editorJohn Hartley
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:28:47Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:28:47Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.modified2009-07-24T06:36:22Z
dc.identifier.issn1367-8779
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1367877904043236
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/24836
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the musical practices of a small group of pre-teen girls in an after school care centre in Adelaide, South Australia. These practices constituted 'serious play' as the girls attempted to transform and reconfigure the space through their engagement with popular music. The article illustrates how the girls challenged the power relations of the institutional setting both musically and sexually. It concludes that the music that the young girls listened to and the way they played with such music were 'not about candy'. Rather, the girls' musical engagement in after school care was related to constantly shifting fields of power and a struggle over western cultural beliefs regarding asexual childhood.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://online.sagepub.com/
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom197
dc.relation.ispartofpageto212
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Cultural Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume7
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, management, tourism and services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCreative arts and writing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLanguage, communication and culture
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode35
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode36
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode47
dc.title‘It’s not about candy’. Music, sexiness and girls’ serious play in after school care
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2004
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBaker, Sarah L.


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