1st Edition
US Youth Films and Popular Music Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency
Introduction: Youth Films, Identity, and Musical Agency
Part I: She’s a Rebel?: Girls, Guitars, and Agency
Introduction
1. The Girl Can’t Have It: Restricted Musical Agency in 10 Things I Hate About You and Love Don’t Cost a Thing
2. Queer Agency and Reappropriation of the "Technophallus" in All Over Me
3. Silent Punk and Audible Folk: Musical Sleight-of-Hand in Juno
Part II: Listening to the Other: Cultural Borrowing and Critical Reflection
Introduction
4. Consumption, Authenticity, and Identity Experimentation in Ghost World
5. "I didn’t move to Bosnia": Critical Cultural Immersion in Save the Last Dance
6. Cheerleaders, Bullies, and Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and Black Music in Bring it On, Mean Creek, and Napoleon Dynamite
Part III: Unheard Ethnicities: Musical Construction of Ethnic Identity and Agency
Introduction
7. ‘Old World’ Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and ‘New World’ Agency in Real Women Have Curves
8. "Neighbourhood is sure changing, isn’t it?": Evolving Traditions and Complex Identities in Quinceañera
9. Reimagining the All-American Teenager: Inaudible Ethnicity and Agency from the Margins in Better Luck Tomorrow
Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Film Music to Identity and Agency
Biography
Tim McNelis is University Teacher in the Communication and Media Department at the University of Liverpool, UK
