Abstract

SOARES, Manuel Pereira. The gothic is female too: Gender equality in a musical subculture. Forum Sociológico [online]. 2021, n.38, pp.15-23.  Epub Aug 12, 2021. ISSN 0872-8380.  https://doi.org/10.4000/sociologico.9610.

In this paper, we want to examine gender inequality in the cultural field, with a special focus on music. Given several studies dealing with this topic, it seems relevant to find out if there are exceptions, especially in the musical field, as some internationally conducted studies have already pointed out, as in the case of the Gothic subculture. In an attempt to verify whether this alternative culture is an exception to the existing tendency towards gender inequality in music, we analyze the composition of the line-ups of ten editions of the Entremuralhas festival, the only Gothic festival in Portugal. The observation allows us to conclude that there is greater gender equality in statistical terms in this subculture compared to other musical genres, but it is not possible with these data alone to determine whether this greater gender equality is noticeable in the daily lives of women.

Keywords : gothic subculture; gender equality; music.

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