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Metal music tends to be a boy's world: both numerically and symbolically, metal music is predominantly male. Although many people tend to think so, the reason that there are few women participating isn't because women don't like metal music. There are actually many women who aspire to become metal musicians, but due to the fact that they 'stand out' in the male crowd, it is difficult for them to be judged based on their skills only. By conducting an analysis of the comments that male and female metal vocalists receive on their YouTube videos, this article demonstrates how and why gender inequality in metal music production persists.
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Metal music is one of the most unequal fields of cultural production regarding gender: few musicians are female. Women in the scene are on the receiving end of many negative and sexist remarks. This article tries to analyze to what extent this occurs and whether female online presence in the virtual metal scene helps women to be taken seriously as metal musicians.
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This page is a summary of: Grunting Alone? Online Gender Inequality in Extreme Metal Music, IASPM Journal, February 2014, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM),
DOI: 10.5429/2079-3871(2014)v4i1.8en.
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