Towards Gender Equality in the Music Industry: Education, Practice and Strategies for Change

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, Univer
• 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, OErebro 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