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The Business of Bobbysoxers

Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra Fandom

Author: Beisel Hollenbach, Katie  

The Business of Bobbysoxers
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Through an examination of World War II era Frank Sinatra fan communities in the United States, The Business of Bobbysoxers considers celebrity following, fan behavior, and popular music culture as a window into the lives of wartime female youth.

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Through an examination of World War II era Frank Sinatra fan communities in the United States, The Business of Bobbysoxers considers celebrity following, fan behavior, and popular music culture as a window into the lives of wartime female youth.

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The Business of Bobbysoxers reconsiders the story of American popular music, celebrity following, and fan behavior during World War II through close examination of

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Katie Beisel Hollenbach vividly demonstrates how much bobbysoxers responded directly to perceptions that mass adulation was uncivilized, irresponsible, and unladylike. 'Organized fandom' was no contradiction in terms for Sinatra's engaged and professional army of followers. His fan clubs not only displayed a strong sense of generational ownership; they showed a real ethos of civic duty in wartime America. The past of music fandom remains something of an undiscovered continent. Analyzing a key moment and phenomenon, Hollenbach's fascinating new book is a real landmark. A stellar study - we need more work as good as this. Mark Duffett, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Chester

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About the Author

Katie Beisel Hollenbach is a musicologist and graduate curriculum specialist at the University of Washington. She holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on popular music, technological mediation, and reception, and has appeared in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Music and the Moving Image.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Published
13th January 2025
Pages
184
ISBN
9780197659182

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