The Women's Musical Leadership Online Network (WMLON)

女性音乐领袖在线网络（WMLON）是一个合作研究网络，汇集了音乐学者和学生与广泛的非学术利益相关者，包括音乐家，教育家，音乐行业专业人士，活动家和集体。WMLON具有研究女性音乐领导力和作为女性音乐领导者和潜在领导者的支持网络的双重功能。WMLON问道:1。在当代音乐实践中，女性音乐领导的本质是什么？女性音乐领袖（或潜在领袖）面临的问题和挑战是什么？如何解决这些问题，以实现当代音乐教育和行业内部的更大平等？4. 师徒关系在培养女性音乐领导潜能方面扮演什么角色？尽管WMLON的研究重点是女性（包括所有自认为是女性的人），但该网络的成员资格对所有人开放（无论性别身份）。音乐领导仍然是男性主导的音乐领域之一。女性指挥家取得了重要的第一次，马林·阿尔索普（Marin Alsop）成为BBC《逍遥音乐会的最后一晚》（2013）的第一位女性导演。凯特琳·凯利（Caitlin Kelley）最近的一份报告（2019）发现，在流行音乐产业中，女性仅占“艺术家的21.7%，词曲作者的12.3%和制作人的2.1%”。尽管女性作曲家、词曲作者和表演者吸引了大量的学术关注，女性音乐研究现在是一个成熟的学术领域，但女性音乐领导力的研究仍然引人入胜。WMLON超越了认为音乐领导力只存在于那些拥有高级音乐职位的人，如指挥家，拥抱艺术家，教育家，以及在音乐教育和行业中影响和推动变革的活动家。WMLON将组织5个在线研讨会，该项目将在第二届妇女和/在音乐领导力国际会议上达到高潮。讲习班将考虑音乐教育和音乐产业中的妇女领袖，围绕以下主题分组：古典音乐产业中的妇女领袖；女性在音乐教育中领导EDI；领导音乐变革的女权主义集体和活动家；流行音乐行业的女性领导者；女性引领着音乐广播和新闻业的变革。每个工作坊将包括由4位受邀演讲者组成的小组讨论，以及由一位女性音乐活动家主持的2小时实践工作坊。每个实践研讨会将生成一个数字工具包，提供必要的资源，如职业建议、其他信息来源和组织的链接、培训应用程序和教程。WMLON还将为早期职业女性音乐学者、从业者和行业专业人士提供免费的指导计划。WMLON的开放获取输出将通过网络网站免费提供给所有人。所有小组讨论的录音（加上完整的转录）将与数字工具包一起嵌入WMLON的网站。该网络还将生成一份已出版的编辑集和一篇合著的关于师徒关系的对话文章（由师徒关系计划的参与者）。该项目的所有发现将与英国和基于投资回报率的音乐协会积极分享，如皇家音乐协会、爱尔兰音乐学协会、MusicHE、音乐家协会和PRS音乐协会。因此，WMLON的研究结果将流入音乐行业，在那里它们将影响实践。作为一个在线网络，WMLON向那些无法参加面对面活动的人开放，包括那些有照顾责任的人（这往往对妇女产生不成比例的影响）和那些缺乏机构支持的人。网络的在线性质也使国际参与成为可能，对环境也有积极的好处。

The Women's Musical Leadership Online Network (WMLON) is a collaborative research network which brings together music scholars and students with a wide range of non-academic stakeholders, including musicians, educators, music industry professionals, activists, and collectives. WMLON has the dual function of researching women's musical leadership and acting as a support network for women musical leaders and potential leaders. WMLON asks:1. What is the nature of women's musical leadership within contemporary musical practices?2. What are the issues and challenges that women musical leaders (or potential leaders) face?3. How can these issues be resolved to enable greater equality in contemporary music education and within the industry? 4. What role does mentorship play in developing women's musical leadership potential?Although WMLON's research focus is upon women (embracing all who identify as women), membership of the network is open to all (regardless of gender identity). Musical leadership remains one of the most male-dominated musical areas. Women conductors achieved a significant first, when Marin Alsop became the first woman to direct the BBC's Last Night of the Proms (2013). A recent report by Caitlin Kelley (2019) found that, within the popular music industry, women comprise only '21.7 percent of artists, 12.3 percent of songwriters and 2.1 percent of producers'. Although women composers, songwriters, and performers have attracted significant scholarly attention and Women in Music Studies is now a well-established academic field, women's musical leadership remains intriguingly under researched. WMLON moves beyond considering musical leadership as residing solely in those who hold senior musical positions, such as conductors, to embrace artists, educators, and activists who have influenced and driven change within music education and the industries. WMLON will organise 5 online workshops and the project will culminate in the Second International Conference on Women and/in Musical Leadership. The workshops will consider women leaders within music education and the music industries, grouped around the following themes: women leaders within the classical music industries; women leading EDI in music education; feminist collectives and activists leading musical change; women leaders within the popular music industries; and women leading change in music broadcasting and journalism. Each workshop will consist of a panel discussion of 4 invited speakers, and a 2-hour practical workshop, facilitated by a woman music activist. Each practical workshop will generate a digital toolkit which will provide essential resources, such as careers advice, links to other sources of information and organisations, training apps, and tutorials. WMLON will also offer a free mentorship scheme for early career women music scholars, practitioners, and industry professionals. WMLON's open-access outputs will be made freely available to all via the network's website. Recordings (plus full transcriptions) of all panel discussions will be embedded, alongside the digital toolkits, on WMLON's website. The network will also generate a published edited collection and a co-authored conversation piece about mentorship (by participants in the mentorship scheme). All findings from the project will be actively shared with UK and ROI-based music societies, such as the Royal Musical Association, Society for Musicology in Ireland, MusicHE, Incorporated Society of Musicians, and PRS for Music. Thus WMLON's findings will flow into the music industry where they will influence practice. By functioning as an online network, WMLON opens access to those who would be unable to attend face-to-face events, including those with caring responsibilities (which often disproportionately affects women) and those who lack institutional support. The online nature of the network also enables international participation and positively benefits the environment.