Resources and Recommendations
Looking for more? Here is our list of recommended books, podcasts, organisations, and resources. Let us know if you find anything you think should be on this list! Email: chelsea@houseofvaleriejoan.com
Studies and Reports
Skipping The Beat, R. Cooper, University of Sydney 2018
Inclusion in the Recording Studio? Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Artists, Songwriters & Producers across 900 Popular Songs from 2012-2020, Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Dr. Katherine Pieper, Marc Choueiti, Karla Hernandez & Kevin Yao, 2020
Understanding Challenges to the Victorian Music Industry During COVID-19, Prepared by Dr Catherine Strong and Dr Fabian Cannizzo 2020
Keychanges at Cheltenham Jazz Festival: Challenges for women musicians in jazz and ways forward for equal gender representation at jazz festivals Sarah Raine, Edinburgh Napier University 2021
Women in the U.S. mUSic indUStry: obstacles and opportUnitieS, Becky Prior, Erin Barra, Sharon Kramer, Ph.D., Berklee College of Music 2019
UK Music Diversity Report, 2021
Pride, Passion & Pitfalls: Working in the Australian Entertainment Industry. Dr Julie van den Eynde PhD, Professor Adrian Fisher PhD Associate Professor Christopher Sonn PhD, Victoria University 2014
Australian Women Screen Composers: Career Barriers and Pathways Research Report. Dr Catherine Strong and Dr Fabian Cannizzo
Music Industry Books
Music Business by Shane Simpson and Jules Munro
Can Music Make You Sick? Measuring The Price of Musical Ambition Sally Anna Gross & George Musgrave
How Music Works by David Byrne
Towards Gender Equality in The Music Industry Edited by Sarah Raine and Catherine Strong
Music Business and The Experience Economy, The Australasian Case edited by Philip L. Pearce, Peter Tschmuck and Steven Campbell
Arts and Leadership
Management and the Arts By William J. Byrnes
Arts Leadership: Creating Sustainable Arts Organizations By Kenneth Foster
Women and Leadership by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Books on culture, feminism and other topics
Do Nothing: Break Away from Overworking, overdoing and underliving by Celeste Headlee
I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make The Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
Living A Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems, An Intersectional Political Economy by Nancy Folbre
Music biographies and autobiographies:
Loud: A Life in Rock n’ Roll by the world’s first female roadie by Tana Douglas
Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M Hayes
I’ll Never Write My Memoirs: Grace Jones
The Meaning of Mariah: Mariah Carey
Rage To Survive: The Etta James Story
JazzWomen by Wayne Enstice and Janis Stockhouse
She Begat This - 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill byJoan Morgan
This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music edited by Sinead Gleeson and Kim Gordon
Rememberings by Sinead O’Connor
Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon
Podcasts
Bang On: Myf Warhusrt and Zan Rowe talk music, art, life and stuff.
The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White
A Podcast of One’s own by Julia Gillard
Articles and Blog Posts
Gender Inequality and the Music Business, Leanne De Souza
The gender gap in Australian music is slowly narrowing, triple j
Participate
Join your local Music Peak Body and find out more about our industry bodies and organisations.
Music Victoria Music NSWQMusicMusic SAVictorian Music Development Office
WAM: West Australian Music
LISTEN: Feminism in Australian Music