Women* who make music are still largely defined in the following order: first as women* and then as musicians*. Pop music is still dominated by men*, as shown by the SR Archive of Austrian Popular Music, which this year analyzed the database it has built up over two decades.
The results were presented at a discussion event in November 2014 on the publicly posed question: "Are 10% women* enough?" The positive development of girls* and women* in the music sector is often hindered because they are usually assigned passive or accompanying roles, such as consumer, listener or singer. What means can be used to break down these gender-specific mechanisms in a specific work context in order to allow girls* and women* to become more public actors? What can practical approaches look like to get more women* into the consciousness of booking management, into the program booklet, onto the stage, i.e. in front of the audience? These questions were the focus of the "Feminist Wish Concert 2014". Alternative content, images, thinking spaces and strategies to the male/mainstream structures were discussed and developed in workshops, discussion rounds and artistic events. The "unlearning" of established processes was one of the biggest challenges. FIFTITU% therefore began to support a music-loving group of young women* to bring the do-it-yourself-organized pink noise Girls Rock Camp to Linz in 2015. Sounds like feminism!
