Introduction: Youth Films, Identity, and Musical Agency Part I: She's a Rebel?: Girls, Guitars, and Agency Introduction 1. The Girl Can't Have It: Restricted Musical Agency in 10 Things I Hate About You and Love Don't Cost a Thing 2. Queer Agency and Reappropriation of the "Technophallus" in All Over Me 3. Silent Punk and Audible Folk: Musical Sleight-of-Hand in Juno Part II: Listening to the Other: Cultural Borrowing and Critical Reflection Introduction 4. Consumption, Authenticity, and Identity Experimentation in Ghost World 5. "I didn't move to Bosnia": Critical Cultural Immersion in Save the Last Dance 6. Cheerleaders, Bullies, and Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and Black Music in Bring it On , Mean Creek , and Napoleon Dynamite Part III: Unheard Ethnicities: Musical Construction of Ethnic Identity and Agency Introduction 7. 'Old World' Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and 'New World' Agency in Real Women Have Curves 8.

"Neighbourhood is sure changing, isn't it?": Evolving Traditions and Complex Identities in Quinceañera 9. Reimagining the All-American Teenager: Inaudible Ethnicity and Agency from the Margins in Better Luck Tomorrow Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Film Music to Identity and Agency Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and Black Music in Bring it On , Mean Creek , and Napoleon Dynamite Part III: Unheard Ethnicities: Musical Construction of Ethnic Identity and Agency Introduction 7. 'Old World' Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and 'New World' Agency in Real Women Have Curves 8. "Neighbourhood is sure changing, isn't it?": Evolving Traditions and Complex Identities in Quinceañera 9. Reimagining the All-American Teenager: Inaudible Ethnicity and Agency from the Margins in Better Luck Tomorrow Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Film Music to Identity and Agency.