Female gender stereotyping in American popular music.

Date Submitted: 04/17/2004 21:54:11
Category: / Social Sciences
Length: 4 pages (1175 words)
WOMEN IN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: A Brief Look At Gender Stereotyping Humanity requires music. For most individuals and groups--circumspect of culture, time, or space--music is metaphor for heartbeat. Music is ensconced with the soul. The female role in the development of music over the millennia surely must have been dramatic. Today, women's voices fill the air all around us. However, their voices seem reduced to commercial opportunism in our material culture—deprecated by the color …
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