Is it reasonable to consider that rock music is gendered male

On an overlook of rock music many people would straight away gender it male, this has to come from a more in depth social structure.  Charlotte Greig mentions that for a woman to become successful she must become ‘masculine. This concept is interesting looking up female rock artists on Google provides a strong back up of this, these women are very masculine with their dress code, hair and bodily feature. But also the male rock stars play on there masculinity pursuing an almost dominant character over there audiences with the whole sex drugs rock and roll theme. It would not been seen as appropriate or sexually appealing to see or hear of a female into sex and drugs.  Pushing this aside the whole social structure starts from when you are kids and what is the norm, for example musical instruments. Many kids especially in earlier era's were brought up to play instruments, it was standard for girls to play the piano and boys to play the guitar. In that sense it was almost unheard of for females to be rock artists as there background did not compliment the genre. Now our culture is different and a lot of females play guitar and drums, but most females that play guitar use it for acoustic purposes. It is therefore comprehensible to say from the way we are brought up right to the way that  our gender is to be seen has an effect as to the way music is gendered especially rock music.