Monday, 14 March 2016

Key magazine decisions- women in rock

My group and I have decided to create our magazine issue calling it a women in rock edition.While researching this subject I've found there is very little representation of women in current media and on a single hand could count the number of artists I've seen or heard of that are women although there is many examples of past well known women particularly in the 60's, 70's and 80's such as, Tina Turner and Joan Jett.Although, there are a few well known female fronted bands currently like Pvris,Paramore and Against the Current but women still are not as well represented in contrast of men.

These are some of the covers i have found:


Women are dressed particularly  different to men in which they are showing some skin in which something you would not normally find male artists doing. This suggests that the magazine is trying to appeal to male market using the looks of the artists and sexuality which is another difference recognised and also, two of their costumes does not conform to the style that rock artists have. Inaddition, they are all in high heels which are considered feminine. Notably the issue is 'Women in Rock' however, Britney Spears who is featured on the cover music is in the pop and dance genre which could suggest the warped perception on the rock genre in media and suggest that Rolling Stone were not able to find a high profile women rock artist to be featured instead took someone very popular to appeal to readers.
Compared to the another cover of Rolling Stone in which the band Radiohead in which they are wearing casual clothes that fit within the idea of rock artists style whereas, the women are dressed in bright colours and are posing is structured.




Jenna McDougall is the lead vocalist in the Tonight Alive shown to be the main focus of the cover with the other members of the band to both sides of her this represents her power and dominance. Jenna is staring directly to the camera which is something her bandmates and other artists do on covers to establish power. However, she poses slightly to the side with her arms crossed and is also, dressed in bright clothes to stand out from her bandmates which could also, be considered a way to make her stand out to capture a potential readers attention or attract a more female readership as not usual that a women is the main focus on a cover.



2 comments:

  1. A wonderful idea Nicole!

    Can you take this a step further? Find some magazines (these can be old) where these powerful women of rock are represented and discuss them. How do these women show power differently to men on covers?

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  2. I have taken the feedback and added it to the post above.

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