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social science subjects > sociology > gender and sexuality > boy bands

... > media studies > media and society > youth and media > youth music culture > boy bands

other subjects > arts and humanities > music > youth music culture > boy bands

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boy bands

As manifested in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, the boy band formula is to combine somewhere between three and six (typically four or five) young, singing and dancing males; to have each represent a distinct personality type; to carefully choreograph their (individual and band) images as closely as their dance steps; and to mass-market them to an audience consisting mostly of preteen and teenage girls. Such bands often play a unique role in the lives of preteen and young teen girls, serving as a bridge between childhood and adolescence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Boy Bands]

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