Buckman, Chris. “Music and Gender.” (2017).
In this article, the author focuses on the intertwining correlations between music and gender. The author explores the in-depth differences between males and females and how factors such as music genre, time spent listening to music, time, and resources negatively affect gender roles in music. This article is critical in explaining how men and women’s genders and responsibilities are coordinated by biological and physiological differences. While this article explores the politics and pop-cultural aspects that define gender and music, it fails to explain how gender roles and music intersect with the changing technological times. This article fits into the more considerable thesis, which is gender roles and music, by exploring the cultural markers between genders, even with feminist and LGTBQ spaces.

Lemos, Luis. “Crossing Borders,(Re) Shaping Gender. Music and Gender in a Globalised World.” e-cadernos CES 14 (2011).
This article focuses on understanding how globalization has shaped music and gender across the globe. Cultural norms of different parts of the world are explored in this article that helps readers understand how globalization has shaped gender roles in music. Concepts that border on time and space that influence the social, economic, cultural, and capitalist elements of music help explain how it shapes gendered music. The article is crucial in describing how Western music has shaped gender roles and expectations in music. The author mentions a few artists such as Madonna and Britney Spears to elucidate femininity and gender identity in music.

Sergeant, Desmond C., and Evangelos Himonides. “Gender and music composition: A study of music, and the gendering of meanings.” Frontiers in psychology 7 (2016): 411.rr
These researchers are invested in understanding and evaluating how music communicates gendered messages to the audience. Within lyrical content, structural and inherent meanings are derived that convey gendered codes in music. The research shows how song structuring and meaning can help us understand how music communicates gender roles, expectations, and behaviors. This research focuses on how music affects artists and allows them to relay information to listeners through sexual identity while also addressing sexual anxieties, sexual ambivalence, and sexual negotiation. This article deciphers codes of gendered communication define gender roles in music altogether. It is a way of looking at how social norms and power structures impact on the lives and opportunities available to different groups of men and women.

Werner, Ann. “What does gender have to do with music, anyway? mapping the relation between music and gender.” Per Musi 39 (2019): 1-11.
Werner explores how themes and feminist interdisciplinary components of music affect music and its inherent meaning. With this, the author contends that the meaning of music is often confounded with gender and sexuality, which is propagated by media technology. In theory, what gender has to do with music, as the title suggests, depends on cultural practices and consumption upon which the audience acts on. This article’s critical significance makes researchers understand how music production and the industry at large help in perpetuating gender stereotypes that drive the creation, sale and consumption of music. In any event, Werner’s article helps students understand how gender and music are interconnected.

Participating in this Bibliography gave me insights on how to choose carefully researched sources for my upcoming research paper. I have garnered rhetorical knowledge in gender studies that define males and females differently. Consequently, I am prepared to perform my research paper by incorporating these sources to provide a concrete paper on gender and music. From analyzing references cited in the sources, to evaluating research methods used in the sources, I made up my mind to focus on understanding the link between gender roles and music especially in the age of globalization. It helped understand and be fully informed about a topic before making judgments and writing about it. It helped me distinguish between my views and biases on a topic and what the research shows. It helped assess what research I’ve got so that I can figure out whether I need to go out and find more. I developed to understand each source on its own terms by writing an annotation on it, taking stock of and determining what helpful information and ideas it gives, and distinguishing the ideas, information, and views expressed in those sources from your own. All this aids me in making greater use of those sources and correctly crediting ideas, information, and opinions that are not my own. It also assists me in determining what information I may be missing so that I can go out and obtain it if necessary.

I learned about terminologies and concepts such as gender stereotypes, gender roles, gender norms, and identity which are used to define gender issues in music. There are terminologies that will have to explore fully in my final paper. In my selection of sources, important features such as peer-reviewed journals were crucial in determining which sources to use. Rhetorical situations such as use of interviews and questionnaires for artists were fundamental in my research. An opportunity gained from this exercise would be to carefully search and apply evidence-based research in all my other assignments which will improve my research credibility and ability.

Bibliography

Buckman, Chris. “Music and Gender.” (2017).

Lemos, Luis. “Crossing Borders,(Re) Shaping Gender. Music and Gender in a Globalised World.” e-cadernos CES 14 (2011).

Sergeant, Desmond C., and Evangelos Himonides. “Gender and music composition: A study of music, and the gendering of meanings.” Frontiers in psychology 7 (2016): 411.
Werner, Ann. “What does gender have to do with music, anyway? mapping the relation between music and gender.” Per Musi 39 (2019): 1-11.