![]() This thesis has the purpose to attend to questions of the likes. Norbert Rudnitzky, a former label manager at Warner Music and founder of Downbeat Records, emphasized the notion of wanting and struggling to find adequate female musicians, wondering just where all of them were. 3 Representing the management position, Mr. During the course of the monthly theme of the cultural event “Oh yeah! Popmusik in Deutschland” taking place in April at the Museum of Communication in Berlin, I attended a panel discussion on women in pop music. Certainly, not every female musician will have such a lightening breakthrough in her career, but more and more are trying, and this in a very fierce manner. Merton would have been discovered by a major label, how she would have been promoted and if this would have taken place according to her artistic vision, but one thing can be agreed on: instead of staying passive and waiting to be noticed to worked with, she took the reins and decides exactly how she wishes her career to proceed. The current embodiment of this development is most definitely the young German-Irish singer-songwriter Alice Merton, whose debut single “No Roots” reached platinum and was released within her own founded record label Paper Plane Records International. In times of digital music distribution, it has never been easier for a female artist to record, release and promote her music independently from a label whilst holding on to all the rights and gaining the entire profit. Hopefully, it will become more and more difficult for the music industry if they are not willing to make the necessary changes because one thing is for certain: women will and are in fact taking matters in their own hands. And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin'. As the present now will later be past the order is rapidly fadin'. The line is drawn the curse it is cast, the slow one now will later be fast. If your time to you is worth savin' then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, for the times they are a-changin'. that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone. The pillars of the predominantly male music world are beginning to tremble and it is mandatory to not only acknowledge the change but to dare to rethink the industry machinery. Stirred by numerous movements like the #meToo campaign in the film industry and the resulting Time's Up against not only sexual harassment but also misrepresentation, times are literally a-changin' for women in music. Unfortunately, in 2018 this again has not really altered. 2 It seemed like women in a band were there as singers and singers only. Later, the band had seven men and one singer left, namely Mrs. ![]() Khan was a member of the band Rufus, who in their original composition consisted of five men and two women, which both and solely held the position as singers. If management, production and song-writing is mostly executed by men, where do women fit in then? Before going solo, Mrs. 1 Khan's producer, as well as the producer for her later remix album were also men, as well as one of the two songwriters who composed “I'm every woman”. ![]() During the whole seventies, the members at Warner Bros Records, ranging from vice president to A&R managers and staff producers, were exclusively male just as is the case today with three men sharing the highest positions at WBR. One might think that during the course of forty years the ratio must have certainly changed, yet this is unfortunately not the case. “I'm every woman”: one representing all should be sufficient enough. Little did she - or we as a matter of fact - know then that the prominent title of her successful song would describe the present situation of women in music today in a shockingly accurate way. In 1978 American singer Chaka Khan released her debut solo studio album “Chaka” with the single “I'm every woman” at Warner Bros.
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