TY - JOUR
T1 - Why don't we get drunk and Screw?
T2 - A content analysis of women, sex and alcohol in country music
AU - Densley, Rebecca Lin
AU - Rasmussen, Eric E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch (IASPM-US). All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - The current study incorporates a radical feminist framework to analyze the portrayal of women in relation to both sex and alcohol in country music. Two coders analyzed the top 50 Billboard country songs for each year from 1990 to 1994, 2000-2004, and 2010-2014 (n = 750) for references to women in association with sex and alcohol. Seventeen percent of the songs referred to sex in relation to women, 20% referred to alcohol in relation to women, and 6% referred to both sex and alcohol in relation to women. Songs in the 2010s were more likely to refer to women in conjunction with sex and alcohol than songs in the 2000s and 1990s. References to women in association with sex and alcohol were more likely to be sung by men, not women, suggesting a pattern driven by patriarchy.
AB - The current study incorporates a radical feminist framework to analyze the portrayal of women in relation to both sex and alcohol in country music. Two coders analyzed the top 50 Billboard country songs for each year from 1990 to 1994, 2000-2004, and 2010-2014 (n = 750) for references to women in association with sex and alcohol. Seventeen percent of the songs referred to sex in relation to women, 20% referred to alcohol in relation to women, and 6% referred to both sex and alcohol in relation to women. Songs in the 2010s were more likely to refer to women in conjunction with sex and alcohol than songs in the 2000s and 1990s. References to women in association with sex and alcohol were more likely to be sung by men, not women, suggesting a pattern driven by patriarchy.
KW - Country music
KW - Feminism
KW - Sexual violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086338084&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1525/jpms.2018.200006
DO - 10.1525/jpms.2018.200006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086338084
VL - 30
SP - 115
EP - 128
JO - Journal of Popular Music Studies
JF - Journal of Popular Music Studies
SN - 1524-2226
IS - 3
ER -