Sunday, 11 October 2015

Homework for Tuesday 13th October

The Representation of Women in the Music Industry (useful for Music and TV drama).
The John Peel lecture by Charlotte Church on women in music

Please answer the following questions

Charlotte Church’s lecture starts at 6.29 but by all means listen to the first 6 minutes about John Peel and his influence on music.

Please include a link to this on your blog and answer the following questions.

1. What are the three main roles women play in music?


2. Who doesn’t use her image to sell?

3. What is the irony of these roles?


4. What culture is ingrained?

5. Who was a template changer who changed her image frequently and was in charge of her sexuality?

7. What percentage of music labels are owned by women?

8. Who gave a Pickled juice rant?


9. 'When I am assertive im a bitch, when a man is assertive he is a boss’ who said this?

10. ‘Dark and pornographic videos’ who calls for the age restrictions on music videos.

11. Should schedulers take into account the image of an artist when promoting their music?

12. What does Church think about Blurred Lines?

13. Who stated.. ‘I don’t want to be infantalised because I won’t be sexualised'.

If you found this interesting listen to the whole programme here

you could base your double page spread in your project on an issue similar to this.

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