On Wednesday, 17 September, the research centre "C:POP. Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies" at Paderborn University invites you to a reading followed by a talk. Pop music journalist and cultural scientist Sonja Eismann will read from her newly published book "Candy Girls: Sexism in the Music Industry". The event will take place from 4 to 5.30 pm in lecture theatre G and is part of the annual conference of the Society for Media Studies, which is being held at Paderborn University this year under the title "*Macht*". All interested parties are invited to take part and join in the discussion. Registration is not necessary.
Women who make themselves visible and audible in the field of music still come up against deeply rooted defence mechanisms. Although the female presence in pop culture is unmistakable, expertise is still predominantly attributed to men. Women, on the other hand, are often perceived solely through their gender. A mechanism that ranges from subtle gatekeeping to open devaluation. In the digital space in particular, this manifests itself in the form of insults, hostility or even threats of violence. The event therefore addresses fundamental questions: Who is allowed to talk about pop in public discourse? Who is heard as an expert, who remains invisible? And how deeply do historical mechanisms of exclusion affect today's writing about music? Even though feminist and anti-sexist perspectives have changed a lot in the field of pop in recent decades, these questions continue to arise (anew).
Sonja Eismann is co-founder and co-editor of Missy Magazine as well as an author and publicist (including taz, Jungle World, Der Freitag, Spex, Deutschlandfunk). Her many years of work at the interface of pop culture, gender and society make her one of the most prominent voices in the German-language pop discourse. She is also a member of the advisory board of the C:POP research centre.
The reading and subsequent talk will be accompanied by musical and artistic interventions by Charlie Mio Marlin. Prof Dr Beate Flath, Managing Director of C:POP and Vice President for Teaching, Studies and Quality Management at the university, and Prof Dr Christoph Jacke, who is also a member of the C:POP Managing Directorate, will moderate the event, which is sponsored by the Universit?tsgesellschaft.
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