10 research outputs found
Getting It on Record: Issues and Strategies for Ethnographic Practice in Recording Studios
The recording studio has been somewhat neglected as a site for ethnographic fieldwork in the field of ethno-musicology and, moreover, the majority of published studies tend to overlook the specific concerns faced by the researcher within these contexts. Music recording studios can be places of creativity, artistry, and collaboration, but they often also involve challenging, intimidating, and fractious relations. Given that recording studios are, first and foremost, concerned with documenting musiciansâ performances, we discuss the concerns of getting studio interactions âon recordâ in terms of access, social relations, and methods of data collection. This article reflects on some of the issues we faced when conducting our fieldwork within British music recording facilities and makes suggestions based on strategies that we employed to address these issues
How women become rock musicians
This thesis is about women rock musicians in the
U.K. It is based on in-depth interviews with 36 female
rock musicians in the 1980s. Firstly, it examines the
relative absence of women in rock music-making and
explains this in terms of gender socialisation and a
number of social constraints operating on women.
Secondly, it looks at those women who, despite all the
obstacles, do become rock musicians. A number of
variables are put forward which, it is suggested, have
helped these women overcome gender constraints. These
factors are conceptualised as "escape routes" into
rock music-making. Thirdly, all-women bands are
examined, and the individual careers of the women who
constitute them. An ideal-type model is constructed of
the stages of a female band's career. It is concluded
that, compared to male bands, there are a whole set of
factors which make it more difficult for women's bands
to be set up and continue along the career path. These
factors have the strongest effect in the early career
stages. Lastly, some non-typical career patterns are
investigated, and particularly the strategies
developed by feminist musicians as alternatives to the
mainstream commercial path