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Basque music refers to the music made in the Basque Country, reflecting traits related to its society/tradition, and devised by people from that territory.While traditionally more closely associated to rural based and Basque language music, the growing diversification of its production during the last decades has tipped the scale in favour of a broad definition.
Sociomusicology (from Latin: socius, "companion"; from Old French musique; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Old Greek λόγος, lógos : "discourse"), also called music sociology or the sociology of music, refers to both an academic subfield of sociology that is concerned with music (often in combination with other arts), as well as a subfield of musicology that focuses on social ...
In an effort to take action against gender discrimination, bias and inequality in the music industry, this year’s edition of the study surveyed over 1,500 professionals across major and ...
The Basque language is largely gender-free. Most nouns have no gender, though there are different words for females and males in some cases (ama, "mother"; aita, "father"; guraso, "parent"). Some words are differentiated according to gender, like in the English language (aktoresa, "actress"; aktore, "actor"), but they are not the main rule. [19]
The music itself runs the gamut from uptempo muiñeiras to stately marches. As in the Basque Country, Cantabrian music also features intricate arch and stick dances but the tabor pipe does not play as an important role as it does in Basque music.
Bertsolaritza [berˈts̺olaɾits̻a] or bertsolarism is the art of singing improvised songs in Basque according to various melodies and rhyming patterns. Bertsos can be composed at a variety of occasions but are performed generally by one or various bertsolaris onstage in an event arranged for the purpose or as a sideshow, in homage ceremonies, in benefit lunches and suppers, with friends or ...
Gender, however, isn’t a factor when curating lineups, Rotella said: “We don’t book our festivals based on gender; it’s all about good music, but that music needs to make its way to us.” “I really thought that using synthesizers was harder for me, I thought that programming was harder for me because I’m a woman.
Half of the people who attend music festivals are women, but across the festivals we looked at, the percent of women performers (single artists and all-women groups) hovered between 5 and 19 percent. Mixed-gender groups fared slightly better, but not by much.