Does music proliferate traditional gender roles?

Interesting Guardian article that asks how rock n roll music is when it comes to gender roles.

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Vanity or equality?

Caitlyn Jenner might have broken on to the front cover of a major women's lifestyle mag but does it mean that the transgender community have finally achieved equality? The Guardian discusses whether CJ has brokered a new identity barrier or whether she's reinforcing heteronormative beauty?

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Black out? David Oyelowo outs racism in Hollywood.

David Oyelowo discusses Hollywood's use of the BBF (black best friend) - two dimensional stereotypes of Black Americans that are derogatory mainstay within Hollywood scripts.

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