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Teenyboppers, Groupies, and Other Grotesques: Girls and Women and Rock Culture in the 1960s and early 1970s

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This article is published in Journal of Popular Music Studies.The article was published on 2003-06-01. It has received 74 citations till now.

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Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations

TL;DR: In this article, a step-by-step approach to cross-cultural test adaptation is presented as a melange between science and practice, driven by the first-hand practical experience of the author in a large number of test adaptation projects in various cultures, and is supported by the consistent scientific body of knowledge accumulated over the last several decades on the topic.
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“Anyone who Calls Muse a Twilight Band will be Shot on Sight”: Music, Distinction, and the “Interloping Fan” in the Twilight Franchise

TL;DR: This article explored the connection between media fandom and intertextuality by looking at online fans who have moved between the movie franchise Twilight and one rock band featured on the soundtrack, and showed what happens when attempts to move beyond Twilight fandom into band fandom are discursively policed by existing followers of the artist.
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‘It’s a man’s man’s man’s world’ : music groupies and the othering of women in the world of rock.

TL;DR: This article argued that the groupie identity is used to exclude women from creative production in rock music and drew on a rhetorical analysis of five published biographical accounts of groupies to examine how the labeling of certain people as "groupies" works as an othering practice that serves to support and maintain the gendered norms of rock and identifies three underlying discursive processes.
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Taking Care of Authenticity on the CBC’s Randy’s Vinyl Tap

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the radio program Randy's Vinyl Tap, which is hosted by Randy Bachman and airs on CBC Radio 1 (2005-present) and argue that the show's complex reception can be explained, in part, by Bachman's personality.
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Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock `n' Roll.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the roots of rock music and the everchanging components of the modern record-making process, by analyzing both the possibilities and the limits of regulating leisure in a capitalist society.