Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 22, Issue 1, 2019

Abstract Drawing on Joan Acker’s notion of the ideal worker (1990) and Karen Ashcraft’s notion of the ‘glass slipper’ (2013), this paper investigates the organising practices that gender the occupation of artist manager and the music industry, and how women artist managers construct an identity in an occupation that is tailored on a male ideal manager, made to fit a man’s shoe. Empirically, we draw on thirteen semi-struc Read More

Abstract This article addresses how the position of women music creators differs from men. We clarify the general differences as well as financial gender inequality. Therefore, we draw on two sources. First, Buma/Stemra – a copyrights collecting society – provided a member database, including approximately 28,000 members. Second, as this database contains few variables besides sex and royalty revenues, we did an Read More

Abstract In this article, I combine insights from cognitive and cultural sociology to assess how gender and ethno-racial inequality is maintained through processes of everyday association grounded in shared mental schemes. Rock music – a form of cultural production and reception dominated by white men – is an interesting case study to dissect this process because its connotations of symbolic whiteness and mascu Read More

Abstract Music and identity are the focus of the oral histories of three gender nonconforming trans* persons this contribution discusses. Their life stories provide an insight into the narrators’ social, political, and emotional experience of being trans*, as well as into the various roles music may play in trans* lives. As such, this empirical paper is a contribution to research on trans* realities in Flanders, Belgium, and to the traditio Read More