Monday, 7 February 2011
Is it reasonable to consider rock music to be gendered male?
I believe that rock music is gendered male, it's a very male attitude, style, theme, feel amongst many other factors also. All through time, rock music has predominately been produced by males. From The Beatles to the Kings of Leon, rock music has been ruled by male figures. That's not to say that females can not make rock music, because many females have and continue to do so well, as the band Paramore have shown, a pop-rock outfit who's lead singer is a female. Also from the same genre is Avril Lavigne, another female rocker who's had major success in charts the world over and I'm sure she'll continue to do so. Another thing to point out with both these females rockers, the majority of the time you'll find them wearing trousers, baseball caps etc, a very male look. In addition, rock music is hard, loud, tough, rough, used to feature a lot of leather, and if you look back through popular music, you'll find many of the most successful artists of all time, rock or not, are male rock artists/bands. The good thing about it though, is I think that the balance between male and female when it comes to listeners or fans etc, isn't so uneven as it's creators.
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Many of the points that you make here in defence of Rock are the exact ones that the theorists discussed in the lecture and recommended reading point to as evidence of its gendered nature. Unfortunately you have not been at the lectures and have clearly not done the reading.
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