Arianna Calloway

Professor Kays
ENG 101
December 9th, 2016
Part 1: Annotations (Public Service Project)
#1.) Book
Whiteley, Sheila. Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity.
Routledge, 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016
In this respect, there is a comparability with the broader struggle against sexism that
characterizes second-wave feminism in aspects like the emphasis on practicality and
pragmatism-equality in law, equal pay for equal work, control over body and image, and
access to the production of knowledge, culture and so forth.
Overall, Sheila Whiteleys book is discussing how women have been trying since
their initial involvement in the music industry to have their own voice and mind within the
business and have been ridiculed and undermined by men since the start. Male
domination within the Music Industry automatically was a setback for women in the
industry because of the control and inequality men wanted to have, and still have.
Whiteleys perspective of oppression against women in the music industry was accurate
but did not use a broad set of examples from multiple genres and sectors of the industry
to justify that sexism happens in the industry across the border. The information given
was effective in forming my topic and having proper content for it, showing the behavior
of men towards women in the music industry and how women were categorized,
sexualized, and forced to lose their sense of self to be in the music industry.

#2.) Scholarly Article

Wilkinson, Melvin. "Romantic love: The great equalizer? Sexism in popular music."
Family Coordinator (1976): 161-166.
Many feminists are convinced that sexual permissiveness has resulted in a loss of
power for women and have even gone go far as to recommend chastity.
Melvin Wilkinsons scholarly article is about how music has opened the pathway
for sexism within the industry. Wilkinson states how music in the earlier times made
men seem powerless without the help of women which is why men have become more
dictated within the music industry to alter that mentality. Within this article, there was
more interpretation of women within the song aspect of music and the ideologies behind
the music, but not as much about the careers of women within the music industry. This
article was very useful because it gave multiple example of songs from different genres
and how they standardized women from a traditional valued standpoint, while also
discussing when women gained more power through their sexual possessiveness.
Another asset of this article was the multiple viewpoints within the article that allowed
you to not have a one side view on the topic.

#3.) Popular Media Article

Boboltz, Sara. There Are So Few Women in Music Production, Bothers to Count. The
Huffington Post. 03 May, 2016. www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-producersstatistics_us57113cebe4b0060ccda345be. Accessed 01 December, 2016.

A few things to ponder when considering the state of female producers in the music
industry: There are so few of them, we couldnt find a single stock photo showing a lady
on the technical side of the booth. There are so few of them, women in the industry are
often asked whether theyre really getting help from a man. But most important, there
are so few of them that audio recording associations havent bothered to count their
number in over 15 years.

Huffington Post discussed some of the few aspects in the industry about the lack
of women in Music Production when it came to school, the actual industry, and the
number of females interested in pursuing a career in the music industry, especially as a
music producer. A few women music producers talk about how many times they were
questioned about their purpose of choosing their career field and how they were really
looked at as skeptical beings for doing music production. Sara Boboltz states in the

article how the creation of Taylor Swifts album 1989 involved 11% women in the
production process but also questions Swifts standpoint when it came to feminism. The
irrelevancy of talking about whether Taylor Swifts belief in true feminism was irrelevant
to the article and put a subliminal message about how women cannot talk about subject
matters that could benefit and alter the inequality of their gender without degradation of
one another. Mostly, this article was very useful in terms of getting more numbers about
women in my career field personally, but also about how low the interaction of women
on the technical aspect of the music industry is very minuscule.