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Old 04-15-2016, 01:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I am currently making a podcast for my Music Journalism course at Uni on whether women are undermined in the music industry, and why/ why not that might be.
If anyone could spare a few minutes to get in touch with your views that would be great!
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For whatever reason, the vast majority of musicians are men. Whether that's because of something inherent, or something cultural, I can't say. It obviously doesn't help that sexualization of female artists is fine, whereas no one really cares about sexualizing male artists.

But I imagine the relative lack of non-pop female artists is a more driving factor, since if there were more female artists who weren't looked at as just ****ty pop singers, then they would have more respect. There isn't a female Rolling Stones or Metallica, not just because of sexism, but because there just isn't a female Rolling Stones or Metallica.
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Well to be fair, there's no male artists like this either.

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This thread makes me wonder why there are so few women playing the instruments in a band.
The only time you see the appearance of a woman, is when they add some token female to the group. Like a female guitar player.

Then again, it could have a lot to relate to the genre. Rock and Metal. Yet with the existence of female fronted bands, I struggle to understand why they wouldn't have a female instrumental backing. Most girls have other girls as friends, so why not?
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Maureen Tucker is a pretty big figure in the music world for her work with VU who I wouldn't describe as token.
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Still, it's mainly men that play drums, with that being an exception. Is it a masculine thing to play instruments? Especially the drums.

Or is it me and I'm not looking into enough obscure indie rock where female instrumentals are ubiquitous?
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Still, it's mainly men that play drums, with that being an exception. Is it a masculine thing to play instruments? Especially the drums.

Or is it me and I'm not looking into enough obscure indie rock where female instrumentals are ubiquitous?


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You're all just putting up random videos with women in them. That's the definition of anecdotal evidence.
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