How to Toot Your Own Horn

Unladylike

Unladylike Media

Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

From band class to the orchestra pit, girls are rarely encouraged to toot their own horns. In fact, brass sections are one of the boys-clubbiest corners of the musical world. To find out the wild reasons why, Cristen and Caroline talk to sexism-slaying trombonist Abbie Conant and visionary tuba player Chanell Crichlow.

Unladylike has a Facebook group! Join the conversation by searching for "Unladylike" on Facebook and looking for our middle finger logo.

Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space is available now, wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Signed copies are available at podswag.com/unladylike.

Follow Unladylike on social @unladylikemedia. Subscribe to our newsletter at unladylike.co/newsletter.

Try Stitcher Premium to hear bonus episodes from Unladylike and tons of other exclusive content. Get a month of free listening at stitcher.com/premium with code UNLADYLIKE.

This episode is brought to you by Shout Your Abortion [shoutyourabortion.com/shrill], The European Wax Center [AxThePinkTax.com], Instacart [instacart.com with code UNLADYLIKE], Honeybook [honeybook.com with code UNLADYLIKE] and Care/of Vitamins [takecareof.com with code UNLADYLIKE50].

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What do you think is the most unlady-like thing about the tuba?
0:09.2	Well, you have to spread your legs to play it.
0:12.9	You literally have to.
0:15.3	Hey y'all and welcome to Unlady-like.
0:34.3	This show that finds out what happens when women break the rules.
0:37.8	I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline.
0:39.9	And Kristen, did you play an instrument growing up?
0:42.2	I mean, I definitely attempted.
0:45.1	When I was home school during middle school, I tried to teach myself how to play guitar.
0:50.3	And I'm left-handed and just accidentally ended up teaching myself how to play upside-down.
0:55.3	So that was kind of a disaster.
0:57.4	What about you?
0:58.4	No, no.
0:59.4	I was not a musical child.
1:00.4	I did dream about playing the clarinet.
1:02.7	But when I was a tiny person and my mom took me to see this band director guy, he told
1:06.9	me that my arms were too short and my fingers were too small, which basically broke my heart.
1:11.5	And to be honest, I'm really salty about it still.
1:13.6	Well, Caroline, surely your arms and fingers have grown since then.
1:16.1	I know who's to say.
1:17.7	But, you know, I do think it's pretty obvious.
1:20.7	You and I are not exactly musical prodigies.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Unladylike Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Unladylike Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.