The ASCAP Basis has launched the brand new “In Her Voice” scholarship which is able to present funds to female-identifying music makers who’re making an attempt to interrupt into the songwriting subject.
“In Her Voice” Scholarship might be granted to 2 undergraduate or graduate college students who’re female-identifying and are ASCAP members or haven’t affiliated with every other performing rights group. To be thought-about, younger writers should submit a track that focuses on ladies’s empowerment. A part of the funding for this scholarship is due to a donation from She Is The Music, a nonprofit searching for to empower ladies within the music trade, particularly in fields which can be primarily male dominated.
Whereas the USC Annenberg College Inclusion Initiative examine in 2024 has proven that illustration for ladies within the songwriting subject has been growing in recent times, rising from 14.1% in 2022 to 19.5% in 2023, there’s nonetheless a protracted technique to go earlier than writing rooms attain gender parity. That is very true for the function of the producer. In 2023, ladies represented simply 6.5% of all producers listed within the 1,200 hottest songs of the 12 months.
The appliance interval opened on July 8, 2024 and ends July 31, 2024 at 11:59 pm PT. In keeping with the ASCAP Basis, “candidates are judged by trade professionals on the originality, total high quality and craft of the track and their capacity to show socially acutely aware themes of ladies empowerment.” The appliance will be discovered right here.
“We hope this scholarship will assist advance the careers of promising female-identifying songwriters and within the course of, promote fairness and inclusion in larger schooling and within the music trade,” stated The ASCAP Basis Government Director Nicole George-Middleton. “We’re so happy to be working with She Is The Music to supply this chance for aspiring music creators.”
