authorship

Bechdel Test Canon: One Sings, The Other Doesn't

Movies post by Alyx Vesey on February 6, 2012 - 11:22am; tagged Agnès Varda, authorship, musicals, One Sings The Other Doesn't, Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, women's movement.

Suzanne and Pomme in One Sings, The Other Doesn't

In her 1977 film One Sings, The Other Doesn't, Agnès Varda uses the musical to play with convention and assert a feminist history.

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Electro Feminisms: Authorship and the Gendered Division of Labor

Music post by emily_mcavan on April 6, 2011 - 9:55am; tagged authorship, electro feminisms, Emily Manuel, Kate Bush, sampling, Utah Saints, women in electronic music.
Making music is work. Rewarding and fun work, to be sure, but work all the same. Like just about everything in a kyriarchy, the divisions of labor in making electronic music lead to an unequal distribution of value, financially, and artistically—who gets paid and how much, and who gets credit and for what.
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