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Allyson McCabe

  • Writer, NPR
  • Writer, Producer, Radio DJ, Freelance
  • None, FREELANCE / VULTURE/NPR
New York
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Playing Like a Girl: The Double-Binds and Brilliant Subversions of Women in Popular Music

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By Deborah Paredez, Allyson McCabe, Rob Sheffield
| brooklynbookfestival.org
It’s the same old story, or is it? The unruliness of male performers is seen as proof of their irrepressible genius while their female counterparts are dissected and interrogated for seemingly every move they make. Who gets to act like a proverbial rockstar and who doesn’t? Who gets recognized and written into the story of popular music? What kind of demands do we see placed on women in music today—in this era dominated by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift—compared to their forebears?
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Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O’Connor

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By Allyson McCabe
| Literary Hub
Before I became a journalist, I was an academic cultural theorist. If you want to construct a scholarly argument, you cite other people. In journalism, it’s basically the same. But whatever academics or journalists claim, no matter how many times we do it, no matter how committed we are to sticking to the facts, absolute certainty does not exist. When I was transitioning out of teaching at Yale en route to my current vocation, I took a brief detour through a journalism graduate program.
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Sinéad O’Connor Was Always a Protest Singer

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By Allyson McCabe
| Vulture
Photo: Michel Linssen/Redferns Having survived a childhood marked by abuse at the hands of her mother, Sinéad O’Connor found her voice at a Catholic girls’ reform school, where a nun bought her a guitar and a book of Bob Dylan songs. She wanted to become a protest singer in the vein of Dylan, John Lennon, and Bob Marley, but there was no lane for that in an industry that prized young women for their looks more than their music.
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