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Male and Female Roles in the Lyrics of Three Genres of Contemporary Music

A sample of the top fifty songs of 1973 in Soul, Country-Western, and Easy Listening music is content-analyzed to determine dominant theme and type of love relationship presented.
Most of the songs are about women and are sung by men. Hence, male artists continue to dominate the record industry. Criteria for evaluating direction of presentation are applied to lyrics to determine how men present women and women present men.
Songs with the heterosexual theme are analyzed to determine conformity to six male and six female stereotypical traits. Males conform to the male stereotype in larger percentages than females conform to the female stereotype. Differences in female role expectations vary among the three genres.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663640
Date12 1900
CreatorsFreudiger, Patricia T.
ContributorsAlmquist, Elizabeth M., Chipman, Donald E.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 147 leaves : illustrations, Text
Coverage1973
RightsPublic, Freudiger, Patricia T., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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