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Vans Warped Tour’s boys club: An analysis of representations of women in alternative music

Wolwacz Heinz, Natasha
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8182-4006
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542239624640296

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2018, MA, Kent State University, College of Communication and Information / School of Media and Journalism.
This thesis analyzes representations of women in the Vans Warped Tour, a traveling music and lifestyle festival that ran in North America from 1995 to 2018. Considering its context as part of an alternative music scene, it investigates how the festival portrays women through a critical-cultural lens using Third-Wave feminism. The analysis follows a two-part data analysis of open and axial coding using grounded theory to review ten texts, including social media posts, media articles, sponsors, lineups, the history of Warped Tour, and a mini documentary series about the traveling festival. The findings suggest the Vans Warped Tour perpetuates patriarchal societal norms, which give women a diminished status, uphold gender role stereotypes, restrict women’s bodily autonomy, and allow objectification. Although efforts to increase the presence of women exist, they do not come from within.
Cheryl Lambert (Committee Chair)
Luke Armour (Committee Member)
Suzy D'Enbeau (Committee Member)
61 p.
Journalism; Mass Communications
Vans Warped Tour; representations; third-wave feminism

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  • Wolwacz Heinz, N. (2018). Vans Warped Tour’s boys club: An analysis of representations of women in alternative music [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542239624640296

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wolwacz Heinz, Natasha. Vans Warped Tour’s boys club: An analysis of representations of women in alternative music . 2018. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542239624640296.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wolwacz Heinz, Natasha. "Vans Warped Tour’s boys club: An analysis of representations of women in alternative music ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1542239624640296

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