Netlabels Still Need Women

A few days ago, I wrote a post at Uncertain Form the lamented over the lack of women in the Creative Commons Music community. In the article I outlined 3 ways that the community can begin to be more inclusive of women:

1. Lis­tener: Seek out women musi­cians, down­load and lis­ten to their work, and, com­ment on their web­site or archive.org that you like their work.
2. Blog­ger: Search out releases by women musi­cians and review them. I will be attempt­ing to review at least one album a week by women for my blog which means at the end of the year, I would have reviewed work by 52 women musi­cians instead of the pal­try dozen in my first 18 months.
3. Net­la­bel: Release work by women. If you don’t have any queued up, go look for them on Sound­cloud, last.fm and other net­la­bels. Be a cura­tor, not just a pub­lisher. If you release an album a month, shoot for 3 maybe 4 albums by women.

Though I got many nods of heads from various Creative Commons Music community, the response has been tepid to say the least. But as my parents raised me and how I raise my son, I really shouldn’t be worrying about what other people are thinking and doing. I should be concerned about myself.

In some ways it is a put up or shut-up moment for me. So at Acts of Silence I am committing myself to write one review a week of a release that is made by a women or a group that a woman is a significant part of.  For instance, a compilation album that only has one woman featured on it would not make the cut so to speak. I’ve also created a blog category, ccWomen, as a way for readers (and myself) to easily see reviews of work by women.

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