More on gender dynamics in music

So today I found some more posts about the gender dynamics in music and how many female artists are undervalued. The posts are from the same blog (Tiger Beatdown) as the one that I discussed, but different author (Silvana). In the first one, Silvana discusses what she calls "Dude music": indie/punk/any kind of rock music made by guys and listened to by guys. She talks about how women making the same kind of music are dismissed, how it's ok for men to say that they "just don't like women's voices" or women singers, even though it would be seen as crazy for a woman to say the same thing about men's voices or men singers. Link below.
http://tigerbeatdown.com/2010/04/14/ladypalooza-presents-i-went-to-your-concert-and-there-was-nothing-going-on-or-a-meditation-on-dude-music/

The second post, also by Silvana, discusses more generally how privilege functions in rock music in terms of gender, and theorizes on reasons for that. It is also a useful post to check out for an analysis of how privilege can work in other forms of art and other areas of life. In the second post, she links to a bunch of great analyses and expansions by other bloggers of her first post. Not all of which I have read. But check out at least the posts by Amanda and the second post by Spencer, which actually discusses gender privilege, but that's ok.

For a further analysis of gender in music, specifically with regards to the Beatles and Yoko Ono, check out a series of illuminating posts by Cara at The Curvature. Before reading this, I too disliked Ono and thought she was the reason the Beatles broke up and how sad (without really knowing anything about the situation, of course...) The first in the series is http://thecurvature.com/2008/12/15/yoko-ono-a-feminist-analysis-introduction-oh-yoko/