Eksempler på songwriter

• How could they really be their own women, carped the press, when they had male songwriters and a male manager 'pulling the strings'?

• Selected variables include whether artists are songwriters or interpreters, their career length, radio success, record sales, and gender.

• To summarise, songwriters generally have more prestige than interpreters, but prestige is above all a function of where artists are located in the field.

• In general, however, rock songwriters were more concerned with humanist ideas.

• Compared to interpreters, songwriters generally score 1.70 point higher on the prestige scale, even when success and career length are controlled for.

• In 2001, 78% of all men who participated in the contest registered as songwriters while 61% of women participated as interpreters. 15.

• Bands wrote and performed their own music, no longer relying on professional songwriters.

• Table 1 shows that even among younger artists, the most important factor influencing the distribution of prestige is whether artists are songwriters or interpreters.