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Today, Vancouver plays hostess to the
Juno Awards, celebrating Canadian music. Congrats to Divine Brown, Kathleen Edwards, Alannis, Deborah Cox, Sarah Slean, KD Lang, and the other gals up for prizes. Good stuff!
Women still remain among the minority when it comes to Juno
nominations. Though they do own three categories entirely ("
Vocal Jazz Album of the Year," "
New Artist of the Year," and "
R&B/Soul Recording of the Year"), few women (either on their own or as members of groups) get a nod elsewhere--consider their sparse presence for "
Songwriter of the Year," "
Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year," "
Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year," and "
New Group of the Year." Several of the top categories, like "
Album of the Year," "
Rock Album of the Year," "
Rap Recording of the Year," and "
Group of the Year" have no women representin.' What's up with that?
It may have been Courtney Love who, in an early nineties interview, lamented girls' preference for dating boys in bands over picking up an instrument and starting their own. A
2008 British study suggests the gendering of musical instruments may be at least partly to blame for their absence on stage: for this reason, mid-nineties female bass player blip aside, drums and guitars remain squarely in male territory. Harp, piccolo, flute, and vocals, currently and historically, represent the more feminine routes to musical participation, according to this study. And whatever they do play, for women, professionalization can be tough; the music industry boys' club continues to work to bar the door with varying types of "no girls allowed" signs.
The intention of this is not to rag on the Junos--frankly, in a country where the arts are so embattled it's nice to see a televised presence like this. Kudos to the organizers and broadcasters for highlighting the varied talent Canada has produced. In the broader context of the Canadian music scene, however, one still has to wonder--what has to happen to generate more national exposure, fame, opportunities, and, frankly, money for women making music?
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Two totally divergent stories about parenthood ran today in the UK's
Mirror (not including the one about Madonna adopting another baby from Malawi). The first is an awesome blurb from our main man, William H. Macy. Macy reveals (like my use of tabloid language, there?) that he and wife Felicity Huffman schedule dates and force themselves to actually go on those dates.
Says the Mace:
"You'd better make a date and take your wife out within a month - whether you want to, or not - and you can't talk about the kid. And you'd better have a romantic weekend within two months because it tears couples apart, these babies do... Felicity and I have been really good about finding time. We'll go away for two days - for one day, even - and we try to do it four, five, six times a year."
I believe I speak for parents everywhere when I applaud these two for
finding making time to spend together as a couple away from their (no doubt delightful) two children. More pointedly, I applaud Macy for actually coming out and saying, "
It tears couples apart, these babies do." I would perhaps have amended that myself to say babies
can tear couples apart. But this is a truth that so few people, especially in the public eye, can actually bring themselves to speak (though there are some
exceptions).
Case in point: when I heard Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz were reportedly having marriage trouble (though they
deny it), I was all, "Well, hell, yeah, there's marriage trouble! Don't they have a newborn baby?" (yes: ol' Bronx was born in November; IMHO, a couple needs a good six months after a baby arrives before the dust truly settles).
Elsewhere on the Mirror is a
video of Tina O'Brien, who most of you will not be familiar with as the actor who played Sarah Platt on
Coronation Street. Tina is now a mom (sorry,
mum), and the video features her and some random mums advising all of you mums out there to cherish the little moments with your wee ones.
Okay, it is true that sometimes the most mundane times spent with your baby become the most memorable (like, you wouldn't believe how clapping has become a superawesomefun activity for me and my rugrat). But the cultural saturation point for "parenting is so great!" has exceeded its maximum limits (jumping the shark with
this t-shirt company). It's time to start redressing the balance by being
honest about parenting and motherhood. Thanks to William H. Macy for doing just that.
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All signs point to the jumpsuit as the "it" item of office-wear and evening apparel. Over the last few months,
celebrities have rushed to embrace the jumpsuit, with
varying degrees of success. I myself would never sport one, but I admit the jumpsuit's possibilities are mildly intriguing. Emancipatory garb or harbinger of the apocalypse? Can the jumpsuit work for the everywoman?
The jumpsuit's appeal and versatility are easy to appreciate - no need to match bottom and top, just slip on in, throw on some pumps, and get on with the revolution. But there's a potentially dark underside. Gold sequined seventies memories aside, the jumpsuit's reincarnation - like all clothing trends - could be construed not as a handshake of freedom but as just another temporary novelty served up by a flailing fashion industry to get women to plunk down their hard-earned money on a garment likely to be ridiculously out of style (read: unwearable and in need of immediate replacement) come this time next year. Ah, the annual
planned obsolescence of the spring shows.
Given the environmental implications, it can't be feminist to "invest" in potentially disposable fashion, can it? Or can it? What if wearing said jumpsuit boosts your confidence such that you nail "the big presentation," thus forwarding your career? But then, can anyone really nail "the big presentation" in a jumpsuit?
Jumpsuit: stylish/convenient feminist utility garment with potential confidence-building properties or ugly piece of retro-crap-capitalist-mistake-purchase doomed to the back of the closet?
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