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Podcast: Seriously...
Episode: The Women Who Wrote Rock
Description: Kate Mossman tells the story of the long-overlooked female pop and rock writers of the 1960s.As a music journalist herself, when Kate entered the profession she found herself surrounded by men - men who had very definite ideas about how it should be done... writing for monthly magazines that were aimed at men and covering artist who were mainly men. The whole industry of writing about 'serious' popular music seemed to have been established in the late 1960s and the mid-1970s with the writer-characters of Rolling Stone and our own New Musical Express....