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How to find music made by women. Drawing the line with Jacki-E

Jacki-E (aka Jacqueline Palmer) has just won herself a residency at Liverpool’s techno club-night Mono in a live DJ competition. That takes guts by anyone’s standards but is an especially brilliant achievement for a woman, since all the other contenders were young guys, and men still dominate behind the decks and in electronic music studios. …

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Music festivals: how to get more women on stage (and it’s not just 50/50 quotas)

A version of this article was published in July 2019 in The Conversation, on the website of the World Economic Forum and re-printed in The Independent newspaper.  As the last of 2019’s Glastonbury Festival tents are packed down, its legacy might be more than mud-free memories of scorching sunshine. Hot on the heels of Primavera …

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