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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Queens of Quirk
Description: For a very long timeātoo longāwomen were locked in very defined roles when it came to rockānārollā¦girls were expected to look pretty and do little more than singā¦okay, maybe shake a tambourine or somethingā¦but that was about itā¦And when it came to singing, āJust stick with conventional stuff, dearā¦donāt get any crazy ideas in your headā¦this is a womanās role in rock, and you should stick to itā¦thatās a nice little ladyāā¦But then along came punk rock in the 1970sā¦punk did many things for rockāinclud...