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Alcohol brand appearances in US popular music

Primack, BA and Nuzzo, E and Rice, KR and Sargent, JD (2012) Alcohol brand appearances in US popular music. Addiction, 107 (3). 557 - 566. ISSN 0965-2140

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Abstract

Aims The average US adolescent is exposed to 34 references to alcohol in popular music daily. Although brand recognition is an independent, potent risk factor for alcohol outcomes among adolescents, alcohol brand appearances in popular music have not been assessed systematically. We aimed to determine the prevalence of and contextual elements associated with alcohol brand appearances in US popular music. Design Qualitative content analysis. Setting We used Billboard Magazine to identify songs to which US adolescents were most exposed in 2005-07. For each of the 793 songs, two trained coders analyzed independently the lyrics of each song for references to alcohol and alcohol brand appearances. Subsequent in-depth assessments utilized Atlas.ti to determine contextual factors associated with each of the alcohol brand appearances. Measurements Our final code book contained 27 relevant codes representing six categories: alcohol types, consequences, emotional states, activities, status and objects. Findings Average inter-rater reliability was high (κ=0.80), and all differences were easily adjudicated. Of the 793 songs in our sample, 169 (21.3%) referred explicitly to alcohol, and of those, 41 (24.3%) contained an alcohol brand appearance. Consequences associated with alcohol were more often positive than negative (41.5% versus 17.1%, P<0.001). Alcohol brand appearances were associated commonly with wealth (63.4%), sex (58.5%), luxury objects (51.2%), partying (48.8%), other drugs (43.9%) and vehicles (39.0%). Conclusions One in five songs sampled from US popular music had explicit references to alcohol, and one-quarter of these mentioned a specific alcohol brand. These alcohol brand appearances are associated commonly with a luxury life-style characterized by wealth, sex, partying and other drugs. © 2011 The Authors, Addiction © 2011 Society for the Study of Addiction.

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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Primack, BAbprimack@pitt.eduBPRIMACK
Nuzzo, E
Rice, KR
Sargent, JD
Centers: Other Centers, Institutes, Offices, or Units > Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health
Date: 1 March 2012
Date Type: Publication
Journal or Publication Title: Addiction
Volume: 107
Number: 3
Page Range: 557 - 566
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03649.x
Schools and Programs: School of Medicine > Medicine
School of Medicine > Pediatrics
Refereed: Yes
ISSN: 0965-2140
MeSH Headings: Adolescent; Alcohol Drinking--psychology; Alcoholic Beverages--statistics & numerical data; Emotions; Humans; Marketing--statistics & numerical data; Music--psychology; Object Attachment; Observer Variation; Sexual Behavior--psychology; Sexual Behavior--statistics & numerical data; Social Class; Substance-Related Disorders--psychology; United States
Other ID: NLM NIHMS326612, NLM PMC3273659
PubMed Central ID: PMC3273659
PubMed ID: 22011113
Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2014 16:47
Last Modified: 04 Feb 2019 15:56
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22399

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