2012-06-01
Rock against gender roles: Performing femininities and doing feminism among women punk performers in the Netherlands, 1976-1982
Publication
Publication
Journal of Popular Music Studies , Volume 24 - Issue 2 p. 155- 175
Intro
On November 8, 1980, a collective of women—inspired by the Rock Against
Sexism movement in the United Kingdom—organized the Rock tegen de
Rollen festival (“Rock Against Gender Roles”) The Netherlands city of
Utrecht. The lineup consisted of six all-women punk and new wave bands
(The Nixe, The Pin-offs, Pink Plastic & Panties,1The Removers, The Softies,
and The Broads) playing for a mixed-gender audience. Similar to The
Ladyfests two decades later, the main goal was to counteract the gender
disparity of musical production (Aragon 77; Leonard, Gender 169). The
organizers argued that:
popular music is a men’s world as most music managers, industry
executives and band members are male. Women are mainly relegated
to the roles of singer or eye candy. However, women’s emancipation
has also affected popular music as demonstrated by an increasing
number of all-women bands playing excellent music. To showcase
and support such bands we organized the Rock tegen de Rollen
festival. (De Borst 40)
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doi.org/10.1111/j.1533-1598.2012.01323.x, hdl.handle.net/1765/51579 | |
Journal of Popular Music Studies | |
Organisation | Arts & Culture Studies |
Berkers, P. (2012). Rock against gender roles: Performing femininities and doing feminism among women punk performers in the Netherlands, 1976-1982. Journal of Popular Music Studies (Vol. 24, pp. 155–175). doi:10.1111/j.1533-1598.2012.01323.x |