How Spotify is helping today’s female vocal composers

The medium of streaming recorded music has greatly affected the rise of female composers of vocal music. Female composers are able to have recordings of their music created today with whoever is interested in recording them, and that includes many independent artists who are somewhat outside the “traditional” pathway to commercial success or widespread recognition in the arts, i.e. smaller or simply untraditional venues and creative spaces vs. large performing arts organizations which are based primarily in a large concert hall. One might argue that with so many larger organizations having a harder time than ever in selling their subscription series to concert goers, an audience that is more and more digitally based creates more favorable conditions for female composers whose networks and/or reknown may not include those older, larger arts organizations. Ideally, female composers may take advantage of both the new and old pathways to having their music heard. 

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