{"product_id":"teenset-teen-fan-magazines-and-allison-bumsted-9781496853264","title":"Teenset, Teen Fan Magazines, and Rock Journalism: Don't Let the Name Fool You","description":"Since the magazine's first issue in 1964, \u003ci\u003eTeenSet\u003c\/i\u003e's role in popular music journalism has been overlooked and underappreciated. Teen fan magazines, often written by women and assumed to be read only by young girls, have been misconstrued by scholars and journalists to lack \"seriousness\" in their coverage of popular music. \u003ci\u003eTeenSet, Teen Fan Magazines, and Rock Journalism: Don't Let the Name Fool You\u003c\/i\u003e disputes the prevailing conception that teen fan magazines are insignificant and elevates the publications to their proper place in popular music history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Analyzing \u003ci\u003eTeenSet\u003c\/i\u003e across its five-year publication span, Allison Bumsted shows that the magazine is an important artifact of 1960s American popular culture. Through its critical commentary and iconic rock photography, \u003ci\u003eTeenSet\u003c\/i\u003e engaged not only with musical genres and scenes, but also broader social issues such as politics, race, and gender. These countercultural discourses have been widely overlooked due to a generalization of teen fan magazines, which have wrongly presumed the magazine to be antithetical to rock music and as unimportant to broader American culture at the time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bumsted also examines the leadership of editor Judith Sims and female \u003ci\u003eTeenSet\u003c\/i\u003e staff writers such as Carol Gold. By offering a counternarrative to leading male-oriented narratives in music journalism, she challenges current discourses that have marginalized women in popular music history. Ultimately, the book illustrates that \u003ci\u003eTeenSet \u003c\/i\u003eand teen fan magazines were meaningful not only to readers, but also to the broader development of the popular music press and 1960s cultural commentary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allison Bumsted\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496853261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496853264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/08\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Allison Bumsted","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685796237567,"sku":"9781496853264","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57d4c0fc-d74c-41b8-a5cc-eda0e9d5edbc.jpg?v=1741726798","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teenset-teen-fan-magazines-and-allison-bumsted-9781496853264","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}