Pop Brands; Branding, Popular Music, and Young People - Mediated Youth

Corporations engage young people and musicians in brand-building activities. These activities unfold in media-dense social spaces. Social networking sites, the user-generated content of web 2.0, live music events, digital cameras and cell phones are all used in constructing valuable brands. This book addresses the integration of popular music culture, corporate branding, and young people's mediated cultural practices. These intersections provide a rich site for examining how young people build brands within spaces and practices that they perceive as meaningful. The book is based on extensive ethnographic empirical research, drawing on participant observation, textual analysis and interviews with young people, musicians, marketers and other participants in the cultural industries. Contemporary theories of marketing and branding are brought together with critical and cultural accounts of mediated social life. The book explores the distinctive concerns and debates of these different perspectives and the lively interface between them.

ISBN:	9781433105654
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Imprint:	Peter Lang
Published date:	16 Apr 2010
DEWEY:	302.230835
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	199
Weight:	326g
Height:	227mm
Width:	151mm
Spine width:	16mm

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