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Ellen Messner Thesis_Final 2022.pdf (1.21 MB)
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The Queer Sounds of TikTok
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Messner, Ellen
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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6850-4668
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1652457831560222
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2022, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Ethnomusicology.
Abstract
This thesis is an exploration of the sounds of the queer side of TikTok. TikTok is a social media platform, driven by user-generated audio-visual content that is delivered through the “For You” page’s individually curated algorithm. As such, TikTok is uniquely situated as a social media network that inadvertently creates online communities situated around not only common interests but the trends and sounds that accompany them. Within TikTok’s queer community, sounds present avenues for exploring and performing gendered and sexual identities as well as developing preexisting queer-coded communications. These sounds also serve as opportunities to raise issues of gender identity, race, and inclusivity within the LGBTQ+ community. This work is centered on case studies of TikTok sounds and their accompanying trends, each supporting a critical analysis of queer TikTok spaces as indicative of a need for intersectionality within the queer community.
Committee
Katherine Meizel, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Heather Strohschein, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sidra Lawrence, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
68 p.
Subject Headings
Gender
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Gender Studies
;
Music
Keywords
TikTok
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social media
;
sound studies
;
queer theory
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identity
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online community
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Messner, E. (2022).
The Queer Sounds of TikTok
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1652457831560222
APA Style (7th edition)
Messner, Ellen.
The Queer Sounds of TikTok.
2022. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1652457831560222.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Messner, Ellen. "The Queer Sounds of TikTok." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1652457831560222
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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The Queer Sounds of TikTok by Ellen Messner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Bowling Green State University and OhioLINK.