What do girls know about being a DJ?
February 25, 2010
The answer of course, is increasingly quite a lot. And it’s not just limited to DJing either, electronic musicians of the feminine persuasion are having more of an impact on what is historically a lads only scene, than ever before. So why state the obvious, well while female DJs and producers are more than mixing it with boys across all genres, the truly talented DJs and producers still face certain challenges to be accepted as just that – truly talented DJs and producers.
While it is arguably true that being a female may open the occasional door, there is a lot of crap that female DJs/producers put up with, that their male counterparts would never have to endure. Compounded by cringe worthy inventions such as Pioneer’s “She DJ” and the emergence of topless DJs of various persuasions, being a female in the boys club that is the underground music scene, must at times feel like being in an episode of Mad Men.
In this article from The Electronic Farm, Poly Lavin tackles this very issue and asks the question are women really perceived differently than men in the electronic music sector?
