Gender inequality in metal music production / Pauwke Berkers, Julian Schaap.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berkers, Pauwke, author.

Schaap, Julian, author.

Series:

Emerald studies in metal music and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and sex.

Heavy metal (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

For over four decades, scholars have been investigating male dominance - both symbolically and numerically -within popular music. The heavier genres of popular music, metal music in particular, have been male dominated spaces, which are difficult to navigate for women participating as fans, musicians, or both. Studies on gender inequality in metal music have convincingly demonstrated how gender dynamics shape the reception of metal music and metal scenes all over the globe. Yet, they shed relatively little light on the extent of and reasons for metal music's male domination from a production perspective. This book fills this gap, offering is a systematic and large-scale overview of gender inequality in metal music production. In other words: how many women - compared to men - are participating in metal bands and what are the causes for the differences in participation?

Contents:

Intro

Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production

Contents

Lists of Images, Figures and Tables

Images

Figures

Tables

About the Authors

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production

Learning, Doing and Evaluating Gender in Society, Pop Music and Metal

I. Gender in Society at Large

II. Gender in Popular Music

Representation of Women in Pop Music

Explaining the Representation of Women in Pop Music

III. Gender in Metal Music

Representation of Women in Metal Music

Explaining the Representation of Women in Metal Music

Data and Methods

Structure and Outline of the Book

1. Winds of Change? Longitudinal Trends and Cross-National Differences

A History of Women in Metal Music Production

Getting into Metal Music

The Statistics of a Boy's Club: Three Per Cent

Global Cultural Production of Metal Music

The Masculine Glocalisation of Metal Music

2. 'Female-Fronted Metal': Gender Differences and (Sub)Genres

Genre Rules: Expectations, Orientations and Conventions

Gendered Genre Rules

The Statistics of Gendered Subgenres

Gender and Subgenres

Gender and Subgenres in Six Countries

Gendering of (Sub)Genre Through Social Marking

3. All Vocals, Few Chords: Gender Differences in Instrumentation

Horizontal Sex Segregation: Gender, Instruments and Stereotypes

Vertical Sex Segregation: Gender, Prestige and Instruments

The Statistics of Instrumentation: All Vocals, Few Chords

Gender and Instrumentation

Gender and Instrumentation in Metal Subgenres

4. Wielding the Double-Edged Sword: Gender Differences in Artistic Careers

Social Marking and Boundaries

Tokenism

Cultural/Structural Embeddedness and the Double-Edged Sword

Positive Tension: The Benefits of Higher Visibility.

Negative Tension: The Disadvantages of Higher Visibility

The Statistics of the Double-Edged Sword: Institutional Recognition

The Great Trade-Off: Standing Out or Fitting In?

Conclusion: Women Are Nowhere, Gender Is Everywhere

Main Findings and Contributions

Discussion and Further Research

Amplifying Gender Equality, Perhaps

Appendix 1: Quantitative Data - The Metal Archives

Variable Construction: Subgenre and Instruments

Appendix 2: Qualitative Data - Interviews with Metal Musicians

References

Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781787439290

1787439291

9781787146747

178714674X