The Role Of Gender Stereotypes In Women's Music

songs say, negative things about women, they will still listen to them and support the artist.

Finally, black women are stereotype for being gold diggers, video vixens, and jezebels. Black women that are gold diggers exchange sex for money or gifts. These women are not committed in a relationship with men. They are sexually active and seek for sexual favors (Wallace, Townsend, Glasgow, & Ojie, 2011). For example, Hugh Hefner the founder of Playboy has 3 to 4 Playboy Bunnies (girls) that live with him in his mansion. These Playboy Bunnies have sex with Hef for fan and gifts. Black women that are video vixens appeared in hip hop music videos. These women are female models that exploit their body. They can be seen dancing in videos with their boobs and butts out. For example, Draya Michele is a video vixen. She appears in many videos

In the 1950 and 60s music started to progressively have a huge impact on teen culture. Music became a gateway to escape from reality. Unequal gender roles between men and women were already very prominent in society at the time and music just put a magnifying glass to the patriarchy way of living. Women (even to this day) are typically objectified by men in their songs. But on the other hand, when a woman was the lead singer of the group typically the lyrics would be about how the girl fantasizes about a boy she is very fond over.

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

One way she does this is through her support for women on the radio. While in an interview with Elaina Smith on Nash Country Daily’s, Carrie Underwood mentioned the lack of women playing or involved on the radio, which has rapidly gotten worse. She stated, “Even when I was growing up, I wished there was more women on the radio, you know.” Carrie Underwood through the years has made it her mission for women to be taken seriously in country music by writing and performing songs based on women empowerment to show women can do what men can, if not better. Some examples of these songs consist of “Good Girl” and “The Champion”, which are amazing songs with a powerful standpoint and message behind

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.

Doug E. Fresh, a popular beat-boxer in rap music today, has been quoted saying, “Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.” Although this is the original intention of hip-hop music, public opinion currently holds the opposite view. Since the 1970’s musical artists have changed the face of hip-hop and rap and worldwide, people – mostly teens—have been striving to emulate certain artists and their lyrics, which has created negative stereotypes for hip-hop music and also for those who choose to listen to it. With vulgar lyrics referencing drugs, alcohol, sex, and aggression, it’s no wonder these stereotypes exist. However, is music really the direct cause of how teens act,

Gender Biases in music focusing on the parallels associated with gender roles in modern day and historical trends are still present today. As of recent decades, women have had extremely limited opportunities within music especially composition. Unfortunately, women were often encouraged as amateurs but not professionals. As professional performers and composers, historically, there have been many obstacles facing woman. From the eras of "Let women keep silence in church." Women could and did make music in their own separate covenants, but these institutions did not compare to their male counterparts. Advancing to instrumental music in the Renaissance era, women faced sexual stereotyping when it came to instruments. Women were expected to develop and cultivate "feminine" instruments that would not require an alteration in facial expression or physical demeanor. This left women with mostly keyboard instruments such as the piano and harpsichord, sheltering women from broadcasting themselves because it was deemed inappropriate. The lute and viol were also acceptable during the Renaissance and Baroque eras and the harp and guitar were acceptable in the Classic and Romantic periods. There were many more instruments that were deemed "masculine." This included winds, brass, percussion, and larger strings. This made orchestra and other ensembles mostly an all-male profession. Between 1880 to 1920 the number of women composing and performing increased drastically, thanks to the

Attitudes towards women, and their role in American Musical Theatre. For my essay, I am going to look at the attitudes towards women, both from men and other women, and the significant role that that women had in telling the stories in American musical theatre. Showboat was the first musical of its kind. Up to this point, musicals consisted of songs and dances, with often feeble storylines based around the big stars. Showboat had a real story, adapted from a novel, and both the singing and dancing told the story.

For thousands of years, established gender roles have been a part of our society. Women are commonly known as sensitive, emotional, or passive. On the contrary, men are described as rational, competitive, independent, or aggressive. Believing women are more emotional than men is stereotyping. However, the stereotype is not entirely untrue. Development of gender roles is often conditioned more by environmental or cultural factors than by hereditary or biological factors. The development of gender roles between men and women involves the inference of peer community of each gender, the communication style of male and female and the intimacy or connection level of men and women.

Women face many challenges daily, and sometimes its too difficult to handle and we just need break and listen to music. There is one problem though, sexism is also in music.

On the other hand, it can be taken into consideration that celebrity political leaders require to appear in the media as well. Their outfit and appearance are key to depicting success. However, they have to present their femininity completely differently from any other female celebrities. This means that appearance for female politicians is important too, but politicians are appreciated to look unfeminine and professional.

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

Art and other media platforms are reflective of societal ideals, especially among industries that are driven by profit-making motives. The music industry, among others, caters to what its audience wants to hear, to see, and to feel as they listen to music for the sake of making a profit. Music videos are one way the industry does this. In order to present what society wants to see, videos oftentimes include specific characters that society deems as “normal and acceptable” in terms of race, beauty standards, and gender and sexuality. However, this leads to unhealthy stereotypes and unrealistic expectations for society at large. Although music videos are made with the intention of being a creative platform, they often oversexualize women, create

However, the visualization of music changes its nature. On the other side, women’s body has become a resource that is offered by music in making pop music culture. Gill (2007) points out the relations between feminism and media culture, which femininity is a ‘bodily property’. For example, women’s body becomes a means of promotion, which to meet the favor of male gaze. The commodified music combines with MTV that gives rise to the sexualization of music. That is to say, pop music culture objectifies women’ body, which ‘selling her sex’ makes women’s body the objective (Gill, R. 2007). Being too sexual and eager to perform for the male gaze is the manner that women are included in pop music culture. Accordingly, music has become an emotional