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estebanana -> RE: Girl on bulerías toque (Feb. 4 2013 2:45:00)
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f you listen to a flamenco CD (of unknown player) and suppose that you liked it, and then someone tells you that it was a woman playing , would that change your opinion of how good the music was? the pleasure in music comes in the ear, right? doesnt matter what the person looks like, or the gender or etc. but hey, its visually nice for men to see a good looking woman playing, now thats a different story
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If heard music that was played by a women and someone told me after I would not really change my mind one way or another.
As for the visually appealing, well sex appeal is a part of performance to an extent in almost any genre, but in the end it should not be the real criteria you like or dislike a musician on.
I went to grad school at a college that was all female except for the graduate program which included both sexes. I was in a position a lot of men don't find themselves in, lecture classes with 100 women and you might be the only male student in the class. I had to consider carefully what I said and how I said it, and at times many times, I said things that were from a singularly male perspective. When you are around a school of predominantly female students you learn things about how education and gender roles work more than if you're a man in school with half and half male female students. Putting my foot in my mouth is nothing new tome, but put your foot in your mouth in a room full of bright women and it shows up under a very clear and scrutinizing light. =
I was essentially in the position that women find themselves in in schools where there are half male and female students. In a Japanese art history class we were looking at some 17th & 18th century wood block prints that showed these cutaway views of the insides of buildings, so you can see the daily life of how those people lived. The style is called believe it or not called 'Fukinuki'. One of the fukinuki prints was of a brothel and I raised my hand and asked Prof. Lutzker, a female professor, if there were children in the brothels in that time period.
The reaction in the room was very interesting. Some giggles and some very audible hisses which were meant to shame me, and some 'ah has' who said good question I was afraid to ask that.( interesting reactions, right?) The professor though it was a good question too and she explained how life was in that time and that children were or could be an integral part of the life in a brothel. They kept the kids, some of them that were born as a result of the business. Complex stuff, more than a pretty wood block picture of some ladies in nightgowns.
Having been in that position where you have to risk something big to even ask a question. I could have been totally rejected in front of a room full of other students who could have held a gender grudge against me for bringing up such a controversial question, and all that it implies that I would ask a question like that as a man.....I've become sensitive to seeing how women react when asking questions or doing activities that involve men having lead positions or traditionally central positions. You see the patterns. You hear the jokes and at some point not all the jokes are funny anymore.
In the context of guitar women do have to push a bit harder because, not to be snaggy, they really do have to negotiate the pervasiveness of male guitar culture. So I'm just saying it's important to consider that women might have to be more assertive for that space than a young man because young men are given those permissions culturally more so than women.
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