Gail Priest

Ivana looks out at the crowd
And it’s 90% female.

She takes that statistic,
along with many others,
and manifests them
into her Sonic Social Demography —
mapping the shifts
riding the curves and crashes.

She hopes to find answers
In the patterns and flows,
to hear what so far
has not been seen.

This is the sound of politics,
and the politics of sound.

Of course music has always been political.
Back before, the mainstream
a major cog in the machinations of the
military industrial entertainment complex.
Opiates and aphrodisiacs,
keep them moving to the beat.

But now that only half the numbers
are susceptible,
the music machine’s half as useful.
Deemed a woman’s act,
music it is tolerated
but not encouraged

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