In looking at the surveys, I noticed that a number of people felt that men were more likely than women to play a number of specific instruments (especially guitar and drums), yet many people felt that men and women were equally likely to appear on stage.
In your experience, do men and women appear on stage as performers an equal amount?
-If so, are there specific roles that tend to be more often men or women? And what are those roles?
-If not, what are some reasons that either men or women would appear on stage more often?
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I don't think men and woman appear on stage an equal amount of time. While we have a high amount of talented female musicians/artist in the Chicago area, the men outnumber the females. In most cases, the women are female fronts in otherwise male bands. The amount of all female bands is far lower than all male bands as well. Unfortunataly, there are male musicians who refuse to work with females which also contributes to the higher ratio of males.I also feel that female singers or singer/acoustic guitarist and to a degree keyboardist are accepted far more than thier musician counterparts. Playing an instrument is still very much a "boys club" in spite of all the excellent female guitarist, bassist and drummers we have in this area.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Joliet Dave, There are a number of excellent female musicians, our band has a great guitarist who happens to be female. It does seem like there are less girls in bands than there should be. I think it's a matter of support, we need to support arts/music education in schools and promote music as a non-gender specific outlet for expression
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