Media
Broadcast Dialogue, May 3, 2019Radio/Podcast
Connie Thiessen spoke with Dr. Watson about her April 2019 study of gender representation on country radio.
Country music has a women program
The Big Story, July 29, 2019Radio/Podcast
URL: https://thebigstorypodcast.ca/2019/07/29/country-music-gender-gap/
The Big Story guest host Sarah Boesveld spoke with Dr. Watson about her April 2019 study of gender representation on country radio. They discussed the study's findings, the reasons for the declining presence of women on the radio format, the impact on female artists, and on the industry at large.
Biography
Jada Watson is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches in Music, Digital Humanities and Information Science. Her research focuses on issues of inclusion and diversity in popular music culture, focusing specifically on issues of gender representation on country format radio and popularity charts. Her current research program, entitled SongData, uses data curated from popularity charts to examine how genre cultures form, develop, and evolve over time. She is also the Coordinator of Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Arts and is responsible for running the DH workshop and lecture series. Watson holds a Diploma in Piano Performance from Cambrian College; an Honours Bachelor of Bachelor of Arts with Specialization in Music and Minor in Russian, a Master of Arts in Musicology and a Master of Arts in Information Studies all from the University of Ottawa; and a PhD in Musicology from Université Laval.
Research Grants
Gender Representation in the Country Music Industry, 1944-2017
Organization: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaMore information: https://songdata.ca/projects/gender-representation-in-country/
A data-driven history of country music’s “geo-cultural” origins
Organization: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaMore information: https://songdata.ca/projects/the-geography-of-country-music/