The Social Climate of the East-Asian Recording Studios

Pi X, Yang Z. The Social Climate of the East-Asian Recording Studios. In: AES Convention 153. Audio Engineering Society; 2022. Paper 43. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21926

@inproceedings{Pi2022_21926,
  author = {Pi, Xinyi and Yang, Ziqin},
  title = {{The Social Climate of the East-Asian Recording Studios}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 153},
  note = {Paper 43},
  year = {2022},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=21926}
}

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AB  - Using survey material from Brooks et al. [1] that draws upon Yang and Caroll’s [2] microaggression study in STEM academia, we captured the experiences of discrimination and the working conditions of 50 sound engineers, music producers, and studio assistants from three Eastern Asian countries. There were 37 participants from China, 4 from Japan, and 8 from South Korea. Our statistical analyses showed gender to be the strongest predictor of social discrimination in the recording studio. While comparing our findings with those obtained by Brooks et al., and Yang and Carroll, we found that cisgender women are 10.7% more likely to report having experience of being silenced and marginalized than cisgender men. Also, our grounded theory analysis-based inductive coding of the responses to open questions showed that the public has insufficient knowledge of the role and contributions of production team members in the East-Asian music industry, meaning that music producers, sound engineers, and studio assistants are facing abusive working conditions in East Asian studios, regardless of their social identities.
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