2. French Opera

Marie Buscatto is a Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at IDHE.S (Paris 1—CNRS). She is a sociologist of work, gender and the arts, and a specialist in qualitative methods. Her current work focuses on gender inequalities in art worlds and prestigious professions, gender-based violence in the arts and the paradoxes of artistic work in Europe, North America and Japan. Her most recent publications in English include Women in Jazz. Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization (Routledge, 2021) and ‘Getting Old in Art. Revisiting the Trajectories of ‘Modest’ Artists’ (Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques, 2019). To find out more about her (more than) 160 publications, go to https://www.researchgate.net/profile/ Marie-Buscatto. Having spent her post-doctoral years at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), Chiharu Chujo is currently Associate Professor at the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France). Her dissertation, which she defended in 2018, focuses on committed Japanese women musicians from the 1970s to the present. She is currently pursuing her research on gender issues in the Japanese music industry, particularly in the world of hip-hop and electronic music. She has translated numerous books on the subject, including Femmes du jazz (Marie Buscatto, 2007) and Be Creative (Angela McRobbie, 2016). She is the author of several articles, including ‘Chanter l’écologisme dans le Japon de l’après-Fukushima:l’ambivalence de la musique écoféministe chez UA’ (Itinéraires, 2021) and ‘Representing Love among Female Rappers: Transgressing, Poaching and Dialoguing’ (in Japanese, Eureka, 023).