Soundtracks to life
usic writing has come a long way since the days of the inkies – the papers that would leave marks on readers’ fingers – when a handful of male gatekeepers dictated the tastes of music-loving teens. While female writers were occasionally admitted to this hallowed club, they were the exception rather than the rule. Since then, the music press has been at once democratised and straitened by the advent of free content. Previously
