Gender Inequality in Metal Music Production

In metal, it seems that women are nowhere but gender is everywhere. This title offers a sociological analysis of metal music's historical and global gender imbalance to investigate why this genre is such an impenetrable fortress for female musicians and how it could change.

About the author

Pauwke Berkers is Associate Professor of Sociology of Art and Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He has published widely on issues of ethic/racial and gender inequality in arts and culture in, among others, Cultural Sociology, Gender and Society, Journal of Gender Studies, Metal Music Studies and Poetics. He is also a member of the International Society for Metal Music Studies.Julian Schaap is a PhD Candidate and Lecturer at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on social stratification on the basis of whiteness, race-ethnicity and gender in various cultural fields. His work has been published in journals such as New Media and Society, Popular Communication, Sociologie and Metal Music Studies.

Summary

In metal, it seems that women are nowhere but gender is everywhere. This title offers a sociological analysis of metal music's historical and global gender imbalance to investigate why this genre is such an impenetrable fortress for female musicians and how it could change.

Product details

• Authors: Pauwke Berkers, Julian Schaap
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781787146754
• ISBN: 978-1-78714-675-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 194 g
• Series: Emerald Studies in Metal Music; Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture; Emerald Studies in Metal Music; Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture; Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture Book Set (2018-2019)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories