{"id":3280,"date":"2024-05-31T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedbackmag.co.uk\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2024-05-31T19:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T18:47:45","slug":"in-the-year-of-female-domination-in-music-are-female-djs-along-for-the-ride-at-grassroots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/feedbackmag\/2024\/05\/31\/in-the-year-of-female-domination-in-music-are-female-djs-along-for-the-ride-at-grassroots\/","title":{"rendered":"In the year of female domination in music, are female DJs along for the ride at grassroots?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you had to pick the musicians of the year for 2024, who would you pick? Taylor Swift<\/em><\/strong>? Sabrina Carpenter<\/em><\/strong>? Tate McCrae<\/em><\/strong>? The Last Dinner Party<\/em><\/strong>? It\u2019s less than halfway into the year, but it wouldn\u2019t be hasty to say that female musicians are crushing 2024. But has anyone taken a moment to notice? Nah. The gender of the 2024 musical matriarchs is entirely coincidental. They haven\u2019t been shouting \u201cgirl power\u201d from the rooftops like their foremothers the Spice Girls<\/em><\/strong>, and they are not at the ascendency of the cultural pyramid because of their place beside any men either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new golden generation is different. The winning women of 2024 are capturing the musical zeitgeist, setting the cultural agenda and scoring hit, after hit, after hit, they just all happen to be women. But these women who sit atop their thrones of musical achievement are the tip of the industry iceberg. It\u2019s time to take a temperature check on the deeper recesses of the musical world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture a DJ. What do you see? More than for any other type of musician, most people, most often picture a man, most likely a white man. Mixing and working the crowd. He\u2019s also likely surrounded by at least a handful of attractive women dancing beside him. Those women however, are different to the back-up dancers of Taylor Swift\u2019s extravagant Eras Tour, those women are professionals, and presumably the elites of their profession. These women are picked out of those attending the event because of how they look to dance next to the DJ, for, presumably, his personal enjoyment (or more likely to feed his ego) and to make him look good. In no other instance in the music industry, in the wider arts industry- or anywhere would this practice be acceptable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt can be disheartening, when I\u2019ve been at raves and I\u2019ve been called up to dance on the stage, to dance with the male DJ. You think \u2018I’ve been selected because I look a certain way and I\u2019m dancing next to the DJ but I don\u2019t wanna just be seen for that'” said Lois Joynt, a 23-year-old, 4th<\/sup> year University of Sheffield history and politics student who balances DJing and producing under the name Lolojoynt <\/em><\/strong>with her studies explained to me. \u201cYou\u2019re lucky if you get one woman [in a line-up], maybe half of the time, just one woman on a line-up of ten men.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost festivals are full of men, without any female representation whatsoever, and it\u2019s the same with club sets, you only have to look at some of the posters to see that\u201d, says Jackie Palmer, a Northampton-based retired purchasing manager for Jaguar in her 60s, who performs as a DJ under the name Jacki-E<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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