Gender in Music Production

Russ Hepworth-Sawyer is a sound engineer and producer with over two decades’ experience of all things audio and is a member of the Association of Professional Recording Services and a former board member and continuing member of the Music Producers Guild, where he helped form their Mastering Group. Jay Hodgson is an associate professor of popular music studies at Western University, where he mostly teaches songwriting and the project paradigm of record production.Dr Liesl King is Associate Head of School: Creative Writing, Media and Film Studies at York St John University in York, England.Mark Marrington trained in composition and musicology at the University of Leeds (M.Mus., Ph.D.) and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Music Production at York St John University.

• List of ContributorsChapter 1: Gender In Music Production– An IntroductionRuss Hepworth-Sawyer, Liesl King & Mark Marrington Part I: History and ContextChapter 2: Mark Marrington, Women in music production: a contextualized history from the 1890s to the 1980sChapter 3: Marco Antonio Juan de Dios Cuartas, The role of women in music production in Spain during the 1960s: Maryní Callejo and the "Brincos Sound"Chapter 4: Gurutze Lasa Zuzuarregui, The Representation of Women in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries TrikitixaChapter 5: Rebekka Kill, "Hey boy, hey girl, superstar DJ, here we go…" :exploring the experience of female and non binary DJs in the UK music scene.Chapter 6: Javier Campos Calvo-Sotelo, She plays the pipe. Galician female bagpipers in the production of local tradition and gender identityChapter 7: Kirsty Fairclough, Rare Birds: Prince, Gender and Music ProductionPart II: Women in the StudioChapter 8: Henrik Marstal, Slamming the door to the recording studio – or leaving it ajar?Chapter 9: Sergio Pisfil, Interview with Betty Cantor JacksonChapter 10: Liesl King, Twists in the Tracks: An interview with singer, composer, and sound producer Aynee Osborn Joujon RochePart III: Personal PerspectivesChapter 11: Svjetlana Bukvich, Women in audio: trends in New York through the perspective of a civil war survivorChapter 12: Julianne Regan, Three Pronged Attack: The pincer movement of gender allies, tempered radicals and pioneers.Chapter 13: Louise M. Thompson, Gender in Music Production: Perspective Through a Female and Feminine LensPart IV: Industrial EvolutionChapter 14: Jude Brereton, Helena Daffern, Kat Young, Michael Lovedee-Turner, Addressing gender equality in Music Production: current challenges, opportunities for change and recommendationsChapter 15: Sharon Jagger and Helen Turner, The Female Music Producer and the Leveraging of DifferenceChapter 16: Liz Dobson, Conversations in Berlin: discourse on gender, equilibrium and empowerment in audio productionIndex