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Something something social media and teh interwebs finally making the political significance of pop media fandom/communities/ devalued teengirled cultural sphere legible. This is not new just newly legible *as politics* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html
Here are some *old* sources just to show how long this has been common knowledge among feminist academics:
Nash, Ilana. "Hysterical scream or rebel yell? The politics of teen-idol fandom." Disco divas: Women and popular culture in the 1970s (2003): 133-50.
Nash, Ilana. "Hysterical scream or rebel yell? The politics of teen-idol fandom." Disco divas: Women and popular culture in the 1970s (2003): 133-50.
Wald, Gayle, and Joanne Gottlieb. "Smells like teen spirit: Riot grrrls, revolution, and women in independent rock." Critical Matrix 7, no. 2 (1993): 11.
Wald, Gayle. "Just a girl? Rock music, feminism, and the cultural construction of female youth." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 23, no. 3 (1998): 585-610.
Gaunt, Kyra D. "YouTube, twerking & you: Context collapse and the handheld co‐presence of black girls and Miley Cyrus." Journal of Popular Music Studies 27, no. 3 (2015): 244-273.
The entire JPMS special issue on girls, girlhood, and popular music: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15331598/2016/28/4
Coates, Norma. "Teenyboppers, groupies, and other grotesques: Girls and women and rock culture in the 1960s and early 1970s." Journal of Popular Music Studies 15, no. 1 (2003): 65-94.
James, Robin. "The conjectural body: Gender, race, and the philosophy of music." (2010).
