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Extending Play: The Feminization of Collaborative Music Merchandise in the Early Twenty-First Century by Alyxandra Vesey (Assistant Professor in Journalism and Creative Media, Assistant Professor in Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama) at Abbey's Bookshop,
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Alyxandra Vesey (Assistant Professor in Journalism and Creative Media, Assistant Professor in Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama)

Extending Play

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

Alyxandra Vesey (Assistant Professor in Journalism and Creative Media, Assistant Professor in Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama)

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English
Oxford University Press Inc
16 May 2024
Films, movies & cinema; Easy listening, MOR music; Gender studies: women; Advertising; Music industry
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.
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Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 159mm,  Width: 235mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   413g
ISBN:   9780190085643
ISBN 10:   0190085649
Pages:   264
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Alyxandra Vesey is Assistant Professor in Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on the gendered dynamics of creative labor in the music industries. Her work has appeared in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Television and New Media, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Camera Obscura, Velvet Light Trap, and Emergent Feminisms: Complicating a Postfeminist Media Culture.

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

""Alyxandra Vesey is one of the keenest minds working on music industry studies today, and Extending Play is essential reading for understanding how popular music and popular feminisms have found sustainable markets and audiences through collaborative models-albeit with double-edged outcomes in our late-capitalist vortex."" * Karen Tongson, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Southern California *


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