Auto - audio Ethnography ; or , Pre - teen Girls ’ Capturing their Popular Musical Practices on Tape

Rosa: Tape 1, Side B The recording begins in a delicatessen. Rosa is with her mother and twin brother. Over the noise of cars passing the shop, Rosa’s mother can be heard ordering some Cabanas while Rosa sings a song by her favourite pop group 5ive. As they leave the shop, Rosa says goodbye to the shopkeeper who had given the twins a free meat pie each. Their mother asks them to wait until they get home to eat because, ‘I don’t want crumbs in the car.’ On the drive home, Rosa is misbehaving and gets told by her mother to ‘stop being stupid’ and ‘Don’t Rosa.’ The radio is on in the car. The song ‘Steal My Sunshine’ begins playing and Rosa sings along, changing the words: