Emma Loughnane

"You wouldn't steal a voice"

Section MS14, Jermaine Francis

Keywords: sound, technology, print, performance

A sonic manifestation of female erasure across the music industry, reflecting the historical and ongoing silencing of women's voices, and hyper-sexualisation of their public image. The pirated mixtape acts as a poetic re contextualisation of popular music with the amplification of female voices and technical contributions in a traditionally male dominated space. The dissemination of this reproduction alongside feminist propaganda reflects discourses around objectification, ownership, and erasure. Subverting the cultural origins of the mixtape as an underground marketing device, using it here as a radical tool to disrupt gender disparity in an industry built on hyper-capitalist patriarchy.