Aportaciones de la teoría feminista a la musicología desde la innovación docente universitaria.

Abstract

This research article addresses the results of a teaching innovation project entitled “Gender discrimination in the consump-tion and diffusion of music: The Web as a teaching-learning area”, initiated during the academic year 2018-2019 and carried out at the subject Gender Studies Applied to Music of the Degree in History and Sciences of Music of the University of Oviedo (Spain). Starting from a theoretical review of the main achievements of feminist musicology, our project applies some tools aimed at deconstructing sexist stereotypes present in musical practices, such as the display theory (Green, 1997) or the notion of the western canon and the value judgments built around certain styles (McClary, 1991; Citron, 1993). The purpose of the methodology used was to know the students’ opinion on the discrimination of sex, gender, ethnicity, class, or sexual orientation that currently happens in music, through participatory activities such as questionnaires and discussion forums. Special attention is paid to how our students consume music on the Web, collecting information about their habits on social networks and platforms such as YouTube. The paper is divided into four sections: the theoretical framework of the project, its objectives, and methodology, results, and conclusions derived from the two years of implementation. We conclude by stating the importance of applying a transversal point of view at how these discriminations are (re)produced in music and are exem-plified with some specific styles such as reggaeton.