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Misogyny in Music Study Day

Location: Building 28, Highfield Campus 09:30 to 16:30, then the Turner Sims foyer from 16:00 to 17:00

November 22 2024 

In January 2024, the House of Commons released the Misogyny in Music Report, which contains a series of recommendations for the music industry and for Higher Education. 

Following a successful roundtable discussion about the Report at the University of Southampton on May 16 2024, we will be hosting our annual music education policy ‘study day.’ This will explore the strategies, challenges and pathways for embedding the recommendations of the Misogyny in Music Report into UK Higher Education institutions.  

With its close links to Public Policy Southampton, the Centre for Music Education and Social Justice is invested in linking educational practice to current policy reports, and providing a forum for reflecting on current policy challenges and issues. Representatives from Public Policy Southampton will attend the event and provide reflections on fostering policy-driven dialogues. 

This will be an in-person event to facilitate break-out groups and opportunities throughout the day to work together. There will also be a quiet room available. 

Schedule

9:30: Coffee - room 1017
 
10:00: Welcome from CMESJ, the Department of Music and Public Policy Southampton (Erin Johnson-Williams, Chiying Lam, Drew Crawford, Laura Bea, Joseph Owen) in room 1017
 
10:15 to 11:00: Panel 1. Student Advocacy, Youth Creativity, and Challenging Misogyny in Education in room 1017   

Chair – Emily Macklow, University of Southampton

Duncan Abrahart (former SU President at Leeds Conservatoire), Student Unions in Small Specialist Music Providers 

Baljit Kaur (LSE/London School of Economics), Young People’s Music Production in Youth Club Settings 

Cassandra Jones (Northumbria University), Combatting Misogyny in Music Education 

 
11:00 to 12:00: Panel 2. Themed Session – ICMP colleagues on Misogyny in Music and the Workplace in room 1017  

Chair – Sophie Daniels, ICMP

Panel members (ICMP): Sophie Daniels, Loretta Andrews, Catherine Anne Davies, Lucy James  

 

12:00 to 12:45: Lunch  
 
12:45 to 13:45: TRAINING SESSION: Misogyny, Harassment and Bias with Enya Doyle - room 1017  

Amy Williamson (University of Southampton) - introductory remarks  

Enya Doyle (Anti-Harassment Consultant) will lead us through definitions of Harassment and Bias and assign reflective tasks for the breakout sessions.  

 

13:45 to 14:30 - Breakout sessions in rooms 2023 and 2049

 

14:30 to 15:30 - Panel 3. Breaking Barriers in Music: Transformative Projects, and the Struggle for Change in room 1019

Chair – Anna Bull, University of York

Sophie Daniels (ICMP), Misogyny in Music: Why Does it Matter who Writes the Songs which Soundtrack our Lives? 

Marianne Brown (City, University of London), Music for All: Transformative Elements of Music Projects for Women and Children Fleeing Domestic Violence 

Metka Potočnik (Wolverhampton Law School), Misogyny in Music: What is Missing in the WEC Report? 

Laurie Stras (University of Southampton), Change is Harder than it Looks 

 

15:40 to 16:00 - Refreshments in the Turner Sims foyer

 

16:00 to 16:45 - Q&A with the Rt Hon Caroline Nokes, MP

Chair - Erin Johnson-Williams, University of Southampton

Rt Hon Caroline Nokes, MP chaired the Women and Equalities Committee that put together the Misogyny in Music Report 

17:00 - Close

 

Planning Committee  

 

Erin Johnson-Williams (chair; University of Southampton)  

Laura Bea (University of Southampton) 

Amy Blier-Carruthers (Kings College London and Guildhall School of Music and Drama) 

Anna Bull (University of Southampton)  

Caz Creagh (National Institute for Health Research)  

Enya Doyle (Anti-Harassment Consultant)  

Liz Gre (University of Southampton) 

Chiying Lam (University of Southampton) 

Joseph Owen (University of Southampton)  

Amy Williamson (University of Southampton)   

Past events

  • Mini-Hartley - Gavin Williams - ‘Arts of Extraction: Oil, Digital Audio and Geo-Histories of Sound’

    On October 23, we hosted Gavin Williams for a Hartley research seminar.

    We explored the convergence, since the Second World War, between seismic survey and oil industries in which dynamite and air gun explosions have become standard ways of sounding the earth’s strata. We looked at the history of mathematics, computing, and spectrographic analysis, and considered the effects of underwater blasts on marine life, and it will track the implications for early digital audio.

    In particular, we focused on efforts to clean up shellac discs using digital techniques borrowed from the analysis of seismic recordings in search of oil. We wanted to evaluate the extent to which sonic practices of oil extraction have bled into auditory and musical cultures more broadly, and vice versa, as well as the extent to which both oil and music register capitalism’s framing of the earth in extractible terms.
  • Hartley Residency: Reena Esmail

    On October 16 2024, we hosted Reena Esmail for our latest Hartley residency.

    Reena Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, and brings communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music. A resident of Los Angeles,

    Esmail is the 20-25 Swan Family Artist in Residence with Los Angeles Master Chorale, and was the 20-21 Composer in Residence with Seattle Symphony. She is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Shastra, a non-profit organization that promotes cross-cultural music connecting musical traditions of India and the West.