“Rawness”: The denial of creative agency in music created by women Originally Published in Print November 2019

Female artists, writers and musicians from Mitski to Bjork to FKA Twigs to Sylvia Plath have been celebrated for being “raw”, “confessional”, “honest”. These are words used frequently in music criticism in particular, where disproportionate weight is placed on the … Continue reading “Rawness”: The denial of creative agency in music created by women Originally Published in Print November 2019