Journal article
Eternal Fandom: Elderly Fans, the Media, and the Staged Divorce of a Schlager Singer
Popular communication, v 9(3)
Jul 2011
Abstract
Taking a case study approach, this article analyzes the relationships among a local "low brow" music celebrity (Flemish schlager singer Jo Vally), the media (Flemish mainstream and gossip press), and audience (Vally fans), and wider society. Analysis of media coverage of and fans' reactions to the celebrity enables us to enlarge Abercrombie and Longhurst's taxonomy to include media skills. It also contributes to the structure-agency debate in celebrity and fan studies showing that social and cultural distinctions and habitus influence not only what objects of fandom are consumed and discussed by media and fans but also how this is done.
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- Title
- Eternal Fandom: Elderly Fans, the Media, and the Staged Divorce of a Schlager Singer
- Creators
- Hilde Van den Bulck - University of AntwerpJasmijn Van Gorp - Utrecht University
- Publication Details
- Popular communication, v 9(3)
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000212342800004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79960668641
- Other Identifier
- 991021865929904721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Communication