TY - JOUR
T1 - The sound of misogyny
T2 - sexual harassment and sexual violence in the music industry
AU - McCarry, Melanie
AU - Käkelä, Emmaleena
AU - Jones, Cassandra
AU - Manoussaki, Kallia
N1 - Funding information: This work was partly supported by a small grant from the School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, to support Dr Käkelä’s contribution.
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - The cultural and creative industries are the fastest growing industries in the UK (Webster et al., 2018). Stakeholder engagement, media reporting, anecdotal evidence and emerging research suggests endemic levels of sexual harassment and sexualised violence within the music industry that it can be described as widespread, systemic and normalised. This article reviews the literature on sexual harassment and sexualised violence in the music industry examining gender stratifications and inequalities within the music industry with a focus on UK, Australian and US studies. The music industry is not a singular entity but instead, is an agglomeration of many different sub-sectors predominantly comprised of three interconnected spheres of music recording and distribution, music publishing and licensing, and live performance. It references Kelly’s (1988; 2007; 2016) theorisations on conducive contexts and the continuum of violence to argue that historical and entrenched misogyny and sexism along with the lack of regulation, process and governing frameworks creates conditions for both the maintenance of gender inequality and the perpetuation of sexual harassment and sexualised violence within the music industry. Consequently, both the cultural context and the practice of misogyny (in this case sexual harassment and sexualised violence) within the music industry are mutually supporting and reinforcing.
AB - The cultural and creative industries are the fastest growing industries in the UK (Webster et al., 2018). Stakeholder engagement, media reporting, anecdotal evidence and emerging research suggests endemic levels of sexual harassment and sexualised violence within the music industry that it can be described as widespread, systemic and normalised. This article reviews the literature on sexual harassment and sexualised violence in the music industry examining gender stratifications and inequalities within the music industry with a focus on UK, Australian and US studies. The music industry is not a singular entity but instead, is an agglomeration of many different sub-sectors predominantly comprised of three interconnected spheres of music recording and distribution, music publishing and licensing, and live performance. It references Kelly’s (1988; 2007; 2016) theorisations on conducive contexts and the continuum of violence to argue that historical and entrenched misogyny and sexism along with the lack of regulation, process and governing frameworks creates conditions for both the maintenance of gender inequality and the perpetuation of sexual harassment and sexualised violence within the music industry. Consequently, both the cultural context and the practice of misogyny (in this case sexual harassment and sexualised violence) within the music industry are mutually supporting and reinforcing.
KW - music industry
KW - sexual harassment
KW - sexual violence
KW - gender inequality
KW - conducive context
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163621579&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1332/239868021X16784676224611
DO - 10.1332/239868021X16784676224611
M3 - Article
SN - 2398-6808
VL - 7
SP - 220
EP - 234
JO - Journal of Gender-Based Violence
JF - Journal of Gender-Based Violence
IS - 2
ER -