Podcast: C21MP Research Center, In One Ear - Episode 7: Gender roles in Javanese Wayang Kulit, learning to be a music producer and in western classical choral traditions
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In One Ear
Episode 7 of In One Ear, the podcast of the 21st Century Music Practice Research Centre is now available online: https://www.c21mp.org/front-page/get-involved/podcast-2/
Our guests on this episode are Misaki Kishi, a doctoral researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan, Brendan Anthony, music producer of thirty years' experience, head of the Production and Entrepreneurship Major at the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, and author of Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer and Katie Ambrose, researcher and Visiting Lecturer at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York. We start by discussing various aspects of gender and music. Misaki talks about Javanese Wayang Kulit – the traditional musical puppet theatre performance practice. As part of her project she is learning to be a female Dalang, the puppet artist who also narrates, sings and directs the gamelan orchestra performance: traditionally a male role. Brendan’s new book argues for moving the identity of the producer away from a technocentric model and towards a much broader definition including people skills – and how these skills can be taught. Katie developed the concept of the Female Ear with Amandine Pras and Jude Brereton, mirroring the idea of the Female Gaze from film. Her research looks at whether a technologically mediated society has accelerated gender diversity in traditionally conservative choral environments. This episode was presented by Stefanie Barschdorf and Simon Zagorski-Thomas. The production team were Stefanie Barschdorf, Maciej Kierzkowski, Luiz Alberto Moura, Gittit Pearlmutter and Simon Zagorski-Thomas.