The final chapter argues that close examination of the specific experiences of women in their engagements with the hard rock and metal media, the music, and musical events reveals how the experience of music is shaped by sexist assumptions about women and about how music should be listened to. Musical pleasure does not exist on a universal, transcendental plane. It is informed and shaped by the socio-cultural circumstances of the listener. Hill maintains that it is vital to acknowledge how these circumstances make for differing experiences: it is an important first step for countering sexism. The chapter concludes with a short plan for how hard rock and metal may imagine a genderless future, and how this imagined community might work towards it.
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Hill, R. L. (2016). The Gendered Experience of Music. In Pop Music, Culture, and Identity (Vol. Part F1514, pp. 159–170). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55441-3_7
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