This week was the last of our guest lectures and probably one of the most interesting even though it doesn’t exactly apply to myself, but covers a matter which I do agree with. Women in the industry.

 

She showed us her organisation co-founded with Richard Burgess called ‘Women Produce Music’ who’s aims it is to promote and help establish women in the music industry. She promoted the work of some highly established producers like Bjork and mentioned how none of them had won an award through the industry. She did state that Women Produce Music is by no means a feminist organisation with radical views or whatever.

 

She spoke a lot about the process she and her co-founder Richard had to go through to help set up and establish women produce music, such as the building of their social media presence, and also presented her research about women in the industry to the UK music equality and Diversity Committee.

 

She spoke a lot about press and how women are undervalued through it, for example Bjork worked on a collaboration with a male artist through the project yet she wasn’t given credit for her work.

 

She finished the lecture by saying how record labels watch producers, and how they will promote their works to reach a larger audience.

 

Through this lecture I realised how little influence women are given in the industry and I do genrally agree that it needs to be equalised