Music and Gender

 Not until very recently did I ever generally start to realize that sometimes gender can take a fairly big part in music, which kind of is fairly significant. I am not the type of person to care who is singing a song or anything. Gender was never a generally big issue for me, very contrary to popular belief. So for having to generally look sort of more into this topic for this blog I thought "Oh this will definitely be easy", little did I, for the most part, think it would actually take me a fairly little while to just find one type of music.  So that first type of music is actually Classical! This was a recommendation from a close friend of mine. So for my example, I decided to use "Ode to Joy" written by Beethoven. Now I picked Classical music because you mainly see men writing them. Even if you do a quick google search on “What gender are most people who make classical music”. It highlights the word, Men. Now after I found this out I had to see the famous women who made classical music as well. So I found one. Hildegard of Bingen. She wrote the song Nunc gaudeant. After listening to this song I was in shock at how amazing it sounds. I might not be able to understand everything that is being said, but all I know is it sounds amazing in my ears. 

 

The definitely next music topic with the gender I really decided to for the most part pick essentially is rap in a big way. Not until recently did women definitely start to really make a name for themselves in a particular major way. Rap mostly is mainly a male-oriented genre in a really major way. Either men write the rap/rap it or they listen to it the most, or so they for the most part though. Some of the bigger women who are rappers that we are knowing their names more and more are, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, and, Megan Thee Stallion. A song that sticks out to me in being a woman rapping would be “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj. Now I basically am personally not very much the biggest fan of rap, it mainly depends on the artist, but I do really like this song, which particularly is fairly significant. I mainly mostly listen to it because of the beat it has going on in a fairly major way.

MUSIC AND RITUALS

 For as long as I can remember I have been to a lot of different rituals, like two graduations, a lot of funerals, weddings, and parties. While I am there either while talking to others or just doing my own thing, there is usually some type of music being played. Most of the time I find them to be happy songs. Even with my grandmother's recent funeral in September, they played a very happy song during the service. I can not currently remember the song that was played during her service but there is a song right now that I could feel that was meant for that time. Clearly, everyone was sad, she was such a big part of everyone's lives. So right now I feel like the song “Five More Minutes” by Scotty McCreery would be perfect if we had a family gathering or something to remember her. I know it isn’t a traditional song to play but with my family being from the south this seems perfect for us. We truly just want five more minutes with her. A personal thing was during my family's Christmas party this year my dad still had a voicemail of her saying how much she loves us all. 

(P.S) Sorry if that last bit was a bit too personal. 

Now to get off a sad note, Weddings! I absolutely LOVE them! My family has hosted two weddings in our home. My parent's wedding and my aunt’s wedding. Both were very different. But they both had some of the same music being played. With both having a lot of children at the weddings there were a lot of upbeat songs that would want to make everyone get up and dance after eating all the great food.  I remember during my parent's wedding, the song was “All My Life” by K-Ci&JoJo. According to my mom, this is one of my dad's favorite songs. While listening to this song again and really listening to the lyrics one line really sticks out to me. “I will never find another lover sweeter than you”. I think this is perfect for my parents. It makes me extremely happy that this is the song my dad wanted to get played at their wedding. My dad is a very cheesy person especially when it comes to love songs. Even with this song being played at their wedding my dad has this song set as the ringtone for my mom on his phone for whenever she calls him. I do think this song should definitely be played at more weddings. It really talks about how much he loves her.