Synthesizing research on popular music and adolescence, this work covers research on music uses and gratifications, music preferences, imagery, and audiences for music.

The new communication technologies play a major role in the lives of children & adolescents, who have available an almost continual diet of highly vivid, on demand, audiovisual images.

This 2003 book reports the only national, random sample survey of US children and adolescents' use of all of the various media available to them conducted in at least the past 30 years.

Examines the frequency and nature of portrayals of illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco in music videos -- a medium that appeals primarily to teenagers and young adults.