The masculine bias in my selection of examples reflects a recognised bias within
popular music as a whole (Frith and McRobbie 2002). Gottlieb and Wald (2006)
make the interesting case that the slow but significant emergence of all-female punk
and rock bands, in contrast to females having been positioned for decades as either
backing singers or attractive lead singers in male-dominated bands, owes a debt to
punk rock’s destabilising of macho rock conventions.