Candy Girls – Sexismus in der Musikindustrie

Female fans are regarded as a screaming mob or mindless groupies, and when a woman performs as an artist, she is first and foremost a woman and only then a musician.


In a mixture of analysis and reckoning that is as angry as it is instructive, Sonja Eismann shows how deeply sexism and ageism are ingrained in the music industry, and how abuse and paedosexuality are accepted in almost all scenes. She writes about the apparent impossibility of ageing gracefully, about sexist music journalism, absurd body standards, femicide in song lyrics – and, of course, about examples of self-confident appropriation, resistance and angry middle fingers raised against the music patriarchy.


At HAU, the co-founder of the successful Missy Magazine will now present her new book and engage in conversation with musicologist Penelope Braune (HU Berlin).



(IN GERMAN)