Women In Music
Subargument #1: Amateur female musicians are severely limited in their portrayals of self empowerment because of monopoly of music by males
Subargument #2: Amateur female musicians are further limited by social boundaries that occur in music
Jazz Article 1 (Willis) | E/DM 2 | Saturday night fever 3 | Bass article – Clawson 4 | * Women instrumentalists are deliberately avoided/removed in the hegemonic jazz discourse to preserve the construction of jazz as a masculine space. * Women can only perform aspects of identities that are naturalized, and end up being largely written out of jazz. * Languages used to discuss jazz and by print are dominated by white men and center around exclusion, recreating what Judith Butler calls a “heterosexual …show more content…
| * The acquiring of new artists and pieces of music are based on beliefs informed by gender * The dance music industry is gendered – most DJs and producers are men; few women are found in powerful industry positions such as label owners or club managers – existence of “boys club mentality”. * It is much easier for girls to develop skills in fields that are less contested by men. * Like the broader popular music industry, EDM is more open to female participation because not associated with an overtly masculine agenda, but this does not seek to subvert the white, patriarchal structures of the mainstream music establishment * Women are underrepresented in music production - 5-15 percent of working DJs are women, the figure is much smaller for female sound engineers who comprise only 2-5 percent of sound engineers * The studio environment has been constructed as a male space that is generally not available to women whose place in the industry came to be limited to the press department. * Social boundaries rooted in technical knowledge and language also exacerbate studio labor divisions. * “Tricks of the trade” and the associated technical …show more content…
* Women become “old maids” if they do not integrate themselves into the terms of patriarchy by latching onto the first man who proposes to them. * A woman’s best means of gaining power is by captivating a man with her body. * (FD) Women are encouraged to view their looks as a source of power and to predicate their self-esteem on their ability to attract the male gaze. * (FD) Women denied of self-sufficient avenues of upward mobility must latch onto a man, either as a fetishized ornament or an object of explicit derogation | * Because of the traditional association of women with singing, their opportunities and achievement have been disproportionately concentrated in musical forms that highlight individual vocal performance * Because instrument playing is so strongly linked to notions of rock creativity, the traditional restriction is especially disempowering in rock music * Woman are most likely to make inroads into occupations that experience a shortage of “suitable” male workers that arise from changes in work processes, or by declines in available rewards (common with SNF article) (conformist point) * Rather than pushing men out, women gain access to jobs that men have already begun to abandon, as they move on
Subargument #2: Amateur female musicians are further limited by social boundaries that occur in music
Jazz Article 1 (Willis) | E/DM 2 | Saturday night fever 3 | Bass article – Clawson 4 | * Women instrumentalists are deliberately avoided/removed in the hegemonic jazz discourse to preserve the construction of jazz as a masculine space. * Women can only perform aspects of identities that are naturalized, and end up being largely written out of jazz. * Languages used to discuss jazz and by print are dominated by white men and center around exclusion, recreating what Judith Butler calls a “heterosexual …show more content…
| * The acquiring of new artists and pieces of music are based on beliefs informed by gender * The dance music industry is gendered – most DJs and producers are men; few women are found in powerful industry positions such as label owners or club managers – existence of “boys club mentality”. * It is much easier for girls to develop skills in fields that are less contested by men. * Like the broader popular music industry, EDM is more open to female participation because not associated with an overtly masculine agenda, but this does not seek to subvert the white, patriarchal structures of the mainstream music establishment * Women are underrepresented in music production - 5-15 percent of working DJs are women, the figure is much smaller for female sound engineers who comprise only 2-5 percent of sound engineers * The studio environment has been constructed as a male space that is generally not available to women whose place in the industry came to be limited to the press department. * Social boundaries rooted in technical knowledge and language also exacerbate studio labor divisions. * “Tricks of the trade” and the associated technical …show more content…
* Women become “old maids” if they do not integrate themselves into the terms of patriarchy by latching onto the first man who proposes to them. * A woman’s best means of gaining power is by captivating a man with her body. * (FD) Women are encouraged to view their looks as a source of power and to predicate their self-esteem on their ability to attract the male gaze. * (FD) Women denied of self-sufficient avenues of upward mobility must latch onto a man, either as a fetishized ornament or an object of explicit derogation | * Because of the traditional association of women with singing, their opportunities and achievement have been disproportionately concentrated in musical forms that highlight individual vocal performance * Because instrument playing is so strongly linked to notions of rock creativity, the traditional restriction is especially disempowering in rock music * Woman are most likely to make inroads into occupations that experience a shortage of “suitable” male workers that arise from changes in work processes, or by declines in available rewards (common with SNF article) (conformist point) * Rather than pushing men out, women gain access to jobs that men have already begun to abandon, as they move on