{"id":5572,"date":"2015-01-06T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T02:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2023-05-09T18:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T22:37:05","slug":"lack-of-female-soundtrack-composers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/lack-of-female-soundtrack-composers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of female soundtrack composers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the listening to soundtracks I do, I can only name one female soundtrack composer: Rachel Portman. She composed the music for <strong>Benny &amp; Joon<\/strong>, <strong>Chocolat<\/strong>, <strong>The Lake House<\/strong>, <strong>Never Let Me Go<\/strong>, and <strong>One Day<\/strong> &#8212; among other things.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a whole lot to say on this topic, except the obvious: there should be more female soundtrack composers. What can we do about it? Perhaps start by seeking out music by female composers. Here&#8217;s one person&#8217;s list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/musicbehindthescreen.blogspot.ca\/2012\/05\/female-film-composers.html\">Female Film Composers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the listening to soundtracks I do, I can only name one female soundtrack composer: Rachel Portman. She composed the music for Benny &amp; Joon, Chocolat, The Lake House, Never Let Me Go, and One Day &#8212; among other things. I don&#8217;t have a whole lot to say on this topic, except the obvious: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[13,164,72],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","category-my-thoughts","tag-music","tag-sexism","tag-soundtracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}