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Gender, Inequality and Work In Electronic Music

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Samantha Parsley

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What’s it like to work in the male-dominated world of electronic music? How do women and gender-expansive music producers and DJs thrive despite clubland’s so-called ‘bro culture’? This book combines the author’s personal journey into DJing and music production with insights from a six year immersive research project and interviews with 63 global artists to explore the challenges women and gender-expansive artists face in the industry. The book tackles common myths around gender, technology and cultural production head on, introducing the concept of ‘ameliorative work’ to recognise the continual and considerable additional work that minoritized genders do in order to succeed.Engaging, accessible and thought-provoking, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in electronic music, the sociology of the contemporary club scene or diversity issues for workers in the creative industries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-10-09
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt485 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor218
FörlagBristol University Press
ISBN9781529240412

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
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Elektronisk musik inom Kultur

Samantha Parsley is a writer, coach, DJ and founder of In the Key a directory and platform championing the careers of women, trans and non-binary electronic music producers (www.inthekey.org). She is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Portsmouth and coaches research-led writers as Curious View (www.curiousview.co.uk). Samantha DJs and produces music as Dovetail and lives with her husband on the south coast of England.

Prelude1. Introduction: Being a Gender Minority in Electronic Music2. There Aren’t Any Women Producers3. Good Music Is All That Matters4. But… Nobody Discriminates!?5. Positive Action Is Just Not Fair6. Women Don’t Make Their Own Music7. Girls Just Aren’t Into Tech8. Women Just Need To Be More Confident9. Conclusion and Manifestos for an Inclusive IndustryAppendix. Knowing the Industry Inside-Out

“This is the book I needed to be written. Parsley dismantles the myths and stereotypes limiting women and gender minorities in electronic music, introducing the powerful theory of ameliorative work. This is an important conceptual contribution which will be invaluable to inequality researchers and sociologists across music and other creative sectors”, Vick Bain, Music industry campaigner and researcher, and Queen Mary University of London