Women are a gender, not a genre

In denying EMA, St Vincent and Anna Calvi a link to their male forebears, the music press is guilty of keeping rock dividedWho owns rock? It was a woman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who subverted sacred music with the secular to forge one of the first rock records, Strange Things Happening Every Day, but it's men – specifically that four-white-guys stereotype – that we celebrate as rock's ultimate chalice-bearers today. Rock's narrative is written in a way that excludes women who noodle, shred an...

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