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16 - Women in the Music Industries: The Art of Juggling

from Part IV - Women’s Wider Work in Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

By
Clare K. Duffin
Edited by
Laura Hamer
Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Summary

Chapter 16, ‘Women in the Music Industries: The Art of Juggling’, considers the persistent male-dominated nature of the popular music industry and the space which contemporary FIMAs (Female Independent Music Artists) have carved out within it to sustain portfolio careers. Clare K. Duffin also presents two detailed case studies of Glasgow-based FIMAs, Emma Gillespie and Carol Laula.

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popular music industryportfolio careerFIMA (Female Independent Music Artist)GlasgowEmma GillespieCarol Laula
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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 254 - 269
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Bayton, Mavis. Frock Rock: Women Performing Popular Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).Google Scholar
Leonard, Marion. Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power (Farnham: Ashgate, 2007).Google Scholar
Whiteley, Sheila. Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).Google Scholar

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