Norah's music blog

  Music and Gender September 21, 2024 Throughout history and even in my own experiences there have always been societal stereotypes in musical preferences of different genders. Most of society believes that young girls only want to listen to popular boy bands and pop, while males are more acceptable to listen to country and rap music. I have dealt with this firsthand, because I have had a friend who only listened to boy bads. She told me that the genres of music I listened too were not feminine enough. Of course, I do not mind listening to boy bands occasionally, but that is not my favorite, nor would I want to listen to just that all the time. I have also seen this happen with boys liking pop music which is mostly expected for just women to listen to. There are also ways that music can have different gender standers when it comes to playing instruments. I have noticed just by listening to music and when doing research that women are usually expected to play instruments like the ...

 Music and Me August 4/24     Hello everybody. My name is Norah Greer, and I am a freshman at converse university. Although this is my first music class I love listening to music, and I am interested to learn more about music. I currently play on the Converse women's soccer team. I have played soccer for the ENCL CESA team for almost 10 years. I am from Union South Carolina, which is only thirty minutes away from the converse campus, so I am quite familiar with the Spartanburg area. I have never lived anywhere else but in Union South Carolina, so I plan on moving out of the state after college. At home I live with my dad, mom, and my brother. I also have a dog who is a 15-year-old chihuahua named Rex. Since I started college, I have started to listen to more music while studying and doing homework. I have started listening to music that is more in the pop genre. I really have never listened to this type of music but over the past month this is a playlist that I like to li...