Gender Biases In The Music Industry

The Hip Hop music industry is infamous for being controversial. In the article Hip Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women there’s a debate on whether the exploitation and constant verbal slander of women should be acceptable just because it sales records. It presents the question that why is it that male poverty breeds sexism? Even though women may have lived in the same environment males still see women as the enemy in their music in an effort to sell records.

Country music is a staple of American culture, however it does not properly represent over half of its audience. Female musicians in the country music genre are heavily outweighed by their male counterparts in terms of radio airplay and sales. Why do the successful country music artists not reflect the demographic of the audience? Has representation of each gender in country music always been as skewed as it is today? Female artists in country music should receive the same opportunities or treatment from the industry that male artists do.

From wearing cupcake bra outfits to performing in a lavish swimsuit, Katy Perry has demonstrated how women in the music industry use sex appeal to captivate their audience. In today’s society, it isn’t uncommon to see female artists in revealing, flashy outfits surrounded by flashing lights and steam. Artists such as Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj have certainly made news headlines for their audacious performances. In many cases, artists are presenting false images to their fans as an investment for future sales. Female artists continue to be sexually objectified by their audience, which increase their viewership, which leads to record labels pressuring artists to keep a sexy image.

The video material that I chose to view for this assignment were music videos, which was an unsurprisingly easy decision to make for writing about gender stereotypes. Music videos are watched by millions every day, and many of these provide misogynistic visual media that has been regulated and accepted by society. These negative connotations for women showing them in highly gendered roles mainly doing medial things such as dancing around in lingerie or fawning over a rich, famous, and/or successful man are dangerous towards equality for genders. Young girls and boys seeing this kind of harmful content could lead them to grow up believing they have to conform to these stereotypes and gender roles instead of living how they would prefer.

The first strictly female-based shows were released in the 1950’s. These musicals attracted more female-based audience members and ticket sales rose exponentially. Musicals such as The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady showed

Music is one of the most influencing media within our time and generation, especially Rap and hip-hop. Demoralizing women has

I propose that all unsigned rising artist should target the business side of the music industry to be successful in the entertainment business because it allows the artist to be taken seriously and make solid connections that can further his/her career. Learning the works of the music industry also enables a new artist to be further successful and profitable. Recent studies show that most new artists without professional representation and a business mindset have a slimmer chance in getting signed to major or independent labels (Lowry, 2011). Overall, the specific change needed is that unsigned artists should be concentrating on their careers as professionals and not amateurs, thus focusing on the ins and outs of the music business and

Sexualisation is a way that mass media, celebrities or advertising can make young or old people, especially young girls, become more provocative in the way that they speak, dress and behave

Women’s music came from radical, grassroots origins in the 1970s thanks to contributions by brave women, mostly lesbians (Mosbacher, 2002). These women used non-violent, peaceful force to forge their own way into the music industry. It was a peaceful yet political revolution of togetherness and liberation. It brought together women of different backgrounds who produced easy-listening, mellow harmonies played with lyrics filled with tumultuous

There are so many talented female artists in music today that it's hard not to think of some right off the top of my head. Not only do they have great voices, but they're successful and confident, not to mention pretty darn rich! Some of these artists knew that they were going to become a star while they were still in diapers. The two females that I will be highlighting are two of the younger musical talents that are out in the industry at this time. They both worked hard to get to where they are today by starting off with many of the same dreams and aspirations many of us women share. These women have contributed so much at such a young age that it's almost hard to believe. Music is such a

They feel as if the privilege for men isn’t the same for women. So they give them less of an opportunity to go out and pursue their dream or the career they want to do that makes them happy or focus on that one passion. I also wanted to give recognition to the music industry because of gay, and the powerful women that is coming up in rap game because we don’t even give them the proper respect they own. The music industry is coming up with more of a gay culture and it plays a very important part on the music industry, especially with the gay artist in it now. Young M.A., Frank Ocean, Sam Smith, ILoveMakonnen, Big Freedia, Taylor Bennett, these are top six famous gay people in the music

I will be using Bell Hook’s book Feminism is for Everybody which is about the movement to end sexism to help understand why men feel the need to degraded women in their music. Hook’s talks about patriarchal power which is general structure in which men have power over women (male domination). “Males as a group have and do benefit the most from patriarchy, from the assumption that they are superior to females and should rule over us. But those benefits have come with a price. In return for all the goodies men receive from patriarchy, they are required to dominate women, to exploit and oppress us, using violence if they must to keep patriarchy intact.”(Hooks xi). Males today are still part of this patriarchal culture, Many rap and hip hop songs are about men using women and having control over them.

In this article, Peterson and Berger show how the organization of the popular music industry affects the music that America hears.

In American society, the media creates impossible expectations for women of African decent. Women are given unrealistic standards to achieve (Melissa, 2009). The music industry is particularly sensitive to these types of expectations created for women in society. This paper will give an analysis of how image affects success in the business of music. Women are discriminated against in rap, hip-hop, and pop record labels. I will present statistics to support these findings and describe the experience obtained by working with a group.

Female what? That’s right, DJs. Women are beginning to blossom in an industry highly saturated and associated with men, proving they can rise to the occasion. Female mobile DJ’s, why aren 't there more? I Chose this question because I myself have been wanting to start DJ’ing for a while now and when people think of DJ’s I assume they only think of males. This question is a hot topic and also very interesting to me because I will be soon DJ’ing and would like to know why men dominate this field. As I started conducting research on this question I started to find answers for my question right away. I also looked up “gender diversity” which means “how different genders are represented in a relevant setting.”