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Gender in Music Production

Perspective Through a Female and Feminine Lens

Louise Thompson M.

INTRODUCTION

The majority of critical and scholarly discussions on gender and music production illustrate the gender inequalities and masculine dominance in music as an omnipresent feature. Paula Wolfe states that female producers are marked primarily for their absence in the field, and have been under-researched, along with analyses of their practice (Wolfe 2012). Feminist research in the field has found that the masculine-led music industry is largely ignorant in regards to women’s productions, which has led to research on women’s contributions to the field critiquing the inequalities in the workplace, rather than offering an analysis of the ...

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