Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry: An Introduction (Sarah Raine, Birmingham City University, UK, and Catherine Strong, RMIT, Australia) Part I: Education 2. Gender and Popular Music Education in North America: We Need to Talk (Kelly Bylica and Ruth Wright, Western University, Canada) 3. Preparing for the ‘Real World’? Exploring Gender Issues in the Music Industry and the Role of Vocational Popular Music Higher Education (Helen Davies, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK) 4. Engineering a Place for Women: Gendered Experiences in the Music Technology Classroom (Emma Hopkins and Pauwke Berkers, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) 5. Qualified Careers: Gendered Attitudes towards Screen Composition Education in Australia (Catherine Strong and Fabian Cannizzo, RMIT, Australia) Part II: Current Practice 6. Gender, Policy and Popular Music in Australia: ‘I Think the Main Obstacles Are Men and Older Men’ (Maura Edmond, Monash University, Australia) 7. Setting the Stage for Sexual Assault: The Dynamics of Gender, Culture, Space and Sexual Violence at Live Music Events (Bianca Fileborn, University of Melbourne, Australia, Phillip Wadds, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Ash Barnes, University of Tasmania, Australia) 8. South West England Open Mics: Gender Politics and Pints? (Sharon Martin, Bath Spa University, UK) 9. Gender Mainstreaming in the Music Industries: Perspectives from Swedish and the UK (Sam de Boise, Örebro University, Sweden) 10. The Gatekeeper Gap: Searching for Solutions to the UK’s Ongoing Gender Imbalance in Music Creation (Emma Hooper, Bath Spa University, UK) Part III: Strategies for Change 11. Queer Noise: Sounding the Body of Historical Trauma (Samuel Galloway, University of Chicago, USA, and Joseph Sannicandro, University of Minnesota, USA) 12. ‘There's No Money in Record Deals and I'm Not Looking to Be Taken Advantage of’: Princess Nokia and Urban Feminism in a New Era of Hip Hop (Hodan Omar Elmi, Independent Scholar, UK) 13. ‘Kill It in a Man’s World’: Gender at the Intersection of the British Asian and Bollywood Music Industries (Julia Szivak, Birmingham City University, UK) 14. Keychanges at Cheltenham Jazz Festival: Issues of Gender in the UK Jazz Scene (Sarah Raine, Birmingham City University, UK) 15. Queer(ing) Music Production: Queer Women’s Experiences of Australian Punk Scenes (Megan Sharp, University of Melbourne, Australia) Index

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Presents a global overview of current research examining the ways in which gender equality is still an issue in the music industry.

About the Author

Catherine Strong is Senior Lecturer in the Music Industry program at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. Among her publications are Grunge: Music and Memory (2011), and Death and the Rock Star (2015, edited with Barbara Lebrun). Her research deals with various aspects of memory, nostalgia and gender in rock music, popular culture and the media. She is currently Chair of IASPM-ANZ and co-editor of the Popular Music History Journal. Sarah Raine is Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, UK. She is co-editor of The Northern Soul Scene (forthcoming), the Review Editor and special issue Guest Editor (2018) for IASPM@Journal, and the co-Managing Editor of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music. She researches the hidden histories and peripheral participant voices within multigenerational music scenes.

Reviews

A welcome addition to the literature on an important and under-researched area. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals, including students in technical programs.
*CHOICE*

This collective book is a unique contribution to the study of inequalities between women and men in popular music. Despite its strive for openness, creativity and equality, the music field has been quite resistant to promote equality between the sexes. This volume provides music researchers as well as music professionals a better understanding of how gender shapes their daily lives and activities. Thanks to the numerous case studies presented, one also learns many ways one may attempt to create more equality between women and men within the popular music field while teaching, programming, recording, playing, learning, producing or listening to music. A great read!
*Marie Buscatto, Professor of Sociology, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France*

Written by leading scholars, representing a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on popular music, cultural studies, education and policy, this impressive collection presents significant research on the current conditions of equity in the music industry. Adopting sophisticated theoretical frameworks and methodologies, the authors identify and explore the real effects of educational and institutional barriers that contribute to the experience of gender-based inequity for performers, creators and producers.
*Lori A. Burns, Professor of Music, University of Ottawa, Canada*

This brilliant collection develops our understanding of the ways in which gender inequalities within the music industry are reproduced, examining educational systems and areas of practice ranging from music production to live music scenes. It offers important international perspectives on current gendered practice impacting on the music sector and explores initiatives focussed on enabling change. A timely and much needed critical examination which will be of real interest to scholars and practitioners alike.
*Marion Leonard, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Liverpool, UK*