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Currently Reading Underplayed Review: Doc on Women in EDM Dances Around Toxic Sexism, But Finds Its Rhythm in Celebrating DJ Heroines Underplayed Review: Doc on Women in EDM Dances Around Toxic Sexism, But Finds Its Rhythm in Celebrating DJ Heroines
The Amazon Prime film doesn t probe very deeply into music-industry or audience chauvinism, but the electronic dance genre s handful of female stars make strong impressions.
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Underplayed Highlights EDM s Diversity Problem and Shows Why It s So Important to Fix It Directed by Stacey Lee
Starring Rezz, Alison Wonderland, Tygapaw, Sherelle, TOKiMONSTA, Mark Ronson
9 You can t be what you can t see, says Alison Wonderland in
Underplayed, a documentary about the dearth of gender, sexual, and ethnic representation in electronic music. And so the doc shows us all.
Filmed through a deeply intersectional feminist lens,
Underplayed highlights not just the genre s shortcomings when it comes to representation, but also how the industry can do better. A remarkable feat of equitable representation,
Underplayed, in its 88-minute runtime, manages to show us the beautiful, diverse and talented multitude of people making electronic music their history, and their hopeful future. The documentary is beau idéal when it comes to critiquing and representation all at once.