Curated Content: women in sound

Sexism: It’s still an Issue in 2015 – Blog by Kerrie at SOUNDGIRLS

The co-founder of the SoundGirls website writes:

I want to focus my blog this year on sexism not only in the industry, but also in our day-to-day lives. Through this I hope we can start a conversation on how we combat it and where we want to head … When Michelle and I started SoundGirls.Org we wanted to create a safe place for women working in audio to come for advice and support. … I have been dismayed and disheartened by the amount of experiences regarding sexism and even harassment in the industry that women have shared with me. I have been working in live sound for almost 30 years, and I can honestly say I have never experienced the amount of sexism that some of you have. I used to believe that sexism was a gradually disappearing issue. I believed that if you worked hard enough at your craft and could hold your own amongst the men, then you could succeed. Sadly, I do not completely believe that anymore…

Read the full blog over at SOUNDGIRLS.

 

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PhD Thesis by Dr. Dianne Marie Smith – Deci-belles: Gender and Power in Sound Engineering for Popular Music in New Zealand

Date:2010
Advisor:Court, Suzanne; Stringer, Rebecca
Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy
Degree Discipline:Music
Publisher:University of Otago
Keywords: popular music; sound engineering; women; gender; power; technology; music industry; work
Research Type: Thesis
Languages:English
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SOUND GIRL: On Sexism & Audio Engineering – The Media

SOUND GIRL – On Sexism & Audio Engineering by Allison Smartt

Published at THE MEDIA,  A BI-WEEKLY WEBPAPER,  ISSUE 27, January 10TH, 2014

This begins as a conversational anecdotal piece on one female engineers experiences of sexism in her technical production career, and moves on to a well considered reflection on access, representation, mentorship – and both issues of under-representation of women and people of colour in audio engineering.

Read the feature now at THE MEDIA.

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UNBALANCED MIX – Nashville Scene

UNBALANCED MIX – Women account for less than 5 percent of producers and engineers — but maybe not for long

Published in Nashville Scene June 03, 2010 News » Cover Story

Nashville Scene cover image

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A varied and quite comprehensive feature on female participation in the US-based recording industry. Interviews with Grammy award winning engineer Trina Shoemaker; Terri Winston (founder and executive director of Women’s Audio Mission);  Jessica Hopper (author of ‘The Girls’ Guide to Rocking‘); Gail Davies (hit songwriter, performer, the first female producer in country music); Jonell Polansky (producer, engineer, holds a degree in electrical engineering); KK Proffitt (owner and chief engineer at JamSync studio); Lari White (producer, engineer, musician); Wendy Waldman (veteran producer); Heather Sturm (engineer, instructor at the Art Institute of Tennessee).

While it does not get interviews from women with experiences so bad in industry that they were pushed out – and getting those numbers would be very difficult – this is one of the best features I have seen on the issue of female participation in music industry as recording producers and engineers.

Read the feature at Nashville Scene. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

 

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