4/17 Women in Contemporary Pop Music

Women in contemporary pop music – Pop singers and 21st-century feminism

Reading: Camille Paglia, “Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Hollywood Are Ruining Women,” Hollywoodreporter.com, 6 December 2012: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/taylor-swift-katy-perry-hollywood-398095
Ramin Setoodeh, “Taylor Swift Dishes on Her New Album ‘Red,’ Dating, Heartbreak, and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’,” Dailybeast.com, 22 October 2012: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/22/taylor-swift-dishes-on-her-new-album-red-dating-heartbreak-and-grey-s-anatomy.html

Viewing: Katy Perry accepting Billboard’s “Woman of the Year” award in 2012: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/473884/katy-perrys-woman-of-the-year-acceptance-speech-video#/news/katy-perry-s-woman-of-the-year-acceptance-1008036452.story

Listening: Taylor Swift, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
Katy Perry, “I Kissed a Girl”

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