GET INTO IT: UNPACKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEGEMONIC NORMS AND THE RACE AND GENDER OF POP ARTISTS

<p>Many contemporary popular musical artists are victims of media controversy while they simultaneously make musical chat history. As a culture founded and sustained by a white supremacist capitalistic patriarchy, race and sex appear to influence the way hegemonic in-groups treat minorities and the way minorities are perceived and live within the confines of said hegemony. With the context of understanding feminist theories, hegemonic norms, parasocial relationships, celebrity appeal, and norms, the researcher wanted to understand if there are clear relationship among these frameworks in modern society. This study employed a 2x2 2between subjects factorial design method to gather information about the relationships between hegemonic norms, race, gender, celebrity parasocial interactions, celebrity appeal, affect, and norms. There were no significant findings from the resulting data, and this experiment consequently did not reveal any significant interactions among the variables. There are several limitations that contributed to these results, and these results do not appear to reflect true attitudes regarding race in pop culture and beyond.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Shelton, Bailey

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Kathryn Anthony
• Dr. Lindsey Maxwell
• Dr. Cheryl Jenkins

• communication
• pop music
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/868

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1931