Is it reasonable to consider that rock music is gendered as male?

Frith and McRobbie have used the term ‘cock rock’ to refer to the gendered nature of this genre of music. They state that by using this term they mean ‘music making in which performance is an explicit, crude and sometimes aggressive expression of male sexuality’. This showing that rock is male dominated music in which females are the subordinate gender, they don’t fit into the stereotypical ideology of a rock musician. Bayton makes statements on how women’s role in music have mainly been the vocalist rather than the instrumentalist which suggests that instruments related to rock music such as the guitar are manly and Bayton states how the guitar is held low and in front of the genitals, again connoting that the guitar is an extension of the male body, this is another sign in which males imply this is their territory which emphasizes that rock is gendered as male.