Comments on: No women on stage, please… http://www.muchbettersundays.net/?p=109 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:43:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Helen http://www.muchbettersundays.net/?p=109&cpage=1#comment-887 Helen Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:08:23 +0000 http://www.muchbettersundays.net/?p=109#comment-887 <i>The perceived musician-audience divide is pity enough without having to go and gender it. It seems to me that in doing so, you’re reducing music to a matter of courtship. The men are showing off their skills, and the women are judging them on it. And this wonderful, transcendent-immanent thing called music is reduced to being all about sex.</i> Spot on. The perceived musician-audience divide is pity enough without having to go and gender it. It seems to me that in doing so, you’re reducing music to a matter of courtship. The men are showing off their skills, and the women are judging them on it. And this wonderful, transcendent-immanent thing called music is reduced to being all about sex.

Spot on.

]]> By: The Eleventh Down Under Feminists’ Carnival « WhyI’mbitter’s Weblog http://www.muchbettersundays.net/?p=109&cpage=1#comment-886 The Eleventh Down Under Feminists’ Carnival « WhyI’mbitter’s Weblog Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:26:35 +0000 http://www.muchbettersundays.net/?p=109#comment-886 [...] discusses the mythical existence of a female musician in No women on stage, please… at Much Better Sundays and Audrey is pissed off (you should be too!) about the depiction of a [...] [...] discusses the mythical existence of a female musician in No women on stage, please… at Much Better Sundays and Audrey is pissed off (you should be too!) about the depiction of a [...]

]]> By: Isobel http://www.muchbettersundays.net/?p=109&cpage=1#comment-884 Isobel Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:54:08 +0000 http://www.muchbettersundays.net/?p=109#comment-884 As co-writer of this blog I should comment. Oh, gender in music! What a nasty can of worms! My sister (who plays in a band with two other girls, who are good, thank you) and I have had many talks about this. But yes it's true about being unattractive! I went to see some bands one night in Santa Barbara, and the first two bands were all very good looking guys, and they were OK. I realise a few years back I probably would have gone crazy over them. But really their music was nothing special. Then the last band gets up, Steven Steinbrink or the French Quarter (http://www.myspace.com/frenchquartermusic) and they are from Arizona and look nothing like the others. If I am honest, they look like the kids no one talks to in school next to the checked shirted sexiness of the previous acts. Steven himself bears a stunning likeness to Truman Capote. But the music they make is fantastic. The beautiful melodies have me spellbound, and I am desperate for an encore. I would travel a long way to see them again (am thinking of doing so in Arizona). So there you are. As co-writer of this blog I should comment.

Oh, gender in music! What a nasty can of worms! My sister (who plays in a band with two other girls, who are good, thank you) and I have had many talks about this.

But yes it’s true about being unattractive! I went to see some bands one night in Santa Barbara, and the first two bands were all very good looking guys, and they were OK. I realise a few years back I probably would have gone crazy over them. But really their music was nothing special. Then the last band gets up, Steven Steinbrink or the French Quarter (http://www.myspace.com/frenchquartermusic) and they are from Arizona and look nothing like the others. If I am honest, they look like the kids no one talks to in school next to the checked shirted sexiness of the previous acts. Steven himself bears a stunning likeness to Truman Capote. But the music they make is fantastic. The beautiful melodies have me spellbound, and I am desperate for an encore. I would travel a long way to see them again (am thinking of doing so in Arizona). So there you are.

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