Gender Differences in the Global Music Industry: Evidence from MusicBrainz and The Echo Nest
Gender Differences in the Global Music Industry: Evidence from MusicBrainz and The Echo Nest
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DOI：
10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3249
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发表时间：
2019-07
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Yixue Wang;Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
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作者：
Yixue Wang;Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
随着数字音乐消费达到历史最高水平，MusicBrainz等在线音乐百科全书和The Echo Nest等音乐智能平台在为地球仪的听众识别、组织和推荐音乐方面变得越来越重要。作为副产品，这些网站收集了大量艺术家的综合信息，他们录制的歌曲，机构支持以及他们之间的合作。本文使用独特的众包、策展和算法增强数据的混搭，揭示了一个未解决的问题，这是促进艺术创新的关键，即，性别如何渗透到艺术环境中，导致音乐产业中全球感知的性别差距。具体来说，我们调查的艺术家的工作，艺术家的听众，他们的唱片公司的隶属关系，和合作网络的声音功能的性别相关的差异。我们发现统计上的显着差异沿着所有这些方面。此外，这些差异使模型能够可靠地识别歌曲创作者的性别，并有助于阐明文化和结构因素在维持不平等方面的作用。我们的研究结果有助于更好地了解音乐制作中的性别差异，并激发可以提高女性艺术家的认可度和促进艺术领导和创新中的性别平等的策略。
With digital music consumption being at an all-time high, online music encyclopedia like MusicBrainz and music intelligence platforms like The Echo Nest are becoming increasingly important in identifying, organizing, and recommending music for listeners around the globe. As a byproduct, such sites collect comprehensive information about a vast amount of artists, their recorded songs, institutional support, and the collaborations between them. Using a unique mash-up of crowdsourced, curated, and algorithmically augmented data, this paper unpacks an unsolved problem that is key to promoting artistic innovation, i.e., how gender penetrates into artistic context leading to the globally perceived gender gap in the music industry. Specifically, we investigate gender-related differences in the sonic features of artists’ work, artists’ tagging by listeners, their record label affiliations, and collaboration networks. We find statistically significant disparities along all these dimensions. Moreover, the differences allow models to reliably identify the gender of songs’ creators and help elucidate the role of cultural and structural factors in sustaining inequality. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of gender differences in music production and inspire strategies that could improve the recognition of female artists and advance gender equity in artistic leadership and innovation.