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Gender & Society, Vol. 13, No. 2, 193-210 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/089124399013002003

WHEN WOMEN PLAY THE BASS

Instrument Specialization and Gender Interpretation in Alternative Rock Music

MARY ANN CLAWSON

Wesleyan University

Drawing on interviews with women and men musicians, this study examines women's overrepresentation in an instrumental specialty, the electric bass, in alternative rock music. Structurally, this phenomenon may be explained by the instrument's greater ease of learning and lesser attractiveness to men, yet women bassists frequently advance an alternative theory of "womanly" affinity. The entrance of women into rock bands via the bass may provide them with new opportunities and help legitimate their presence in a male-dominated site of artistic production, yet it may simultaneously work to reconstruct a gendered division of labor and reproduce dominant gender ideologies.


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