RT Journal Article
T1 Popular music and intimate relationships: examples from the Top 40 Spanish radio show
A1 Escobar-Fuentes, Silvia
A1 Montalbán-Peregrín, Francisco Manuel
K1 Relaciones interpersonales
K1 Música - Aspectos psicológicos
AB As an aspect of everyday life, music is a privileged cultural expression that reflects social dynamics, including issues related to intimate relationships. The aim of this study was to analyse the construction and evolution of such relationships through musical hits from 1966 to 2017. To this end, we used a qualitative methodology comprising discourse analysis and the identification of interpretative repertoires. The results show that 71.9% of the chosen songs describe intimate relationships and that their themes can be grouped around three repertoires: 1) romantic love, 2) hedonistic love, and 3) toxic love. These discursive axes reveal differences between female and male voices. They also show that intimate relationships are mainly characterized by masculine domination, which positions women as objects subordinated to the desires of men. However, we also observed the recent emergence of new spaces for female expression that increase women’s visibility.
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38970
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38970
LA eng
NO Escobar-Fuentes, S. & Montalbán-Peregrín, F.M. (2023) Popular music and intimate relationships: examples from the Top 40 Spanish radio show, Feminist Media Studies, 23:1, 137-153, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1959369
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/5267
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026