Female Empowerment through Music

Females were viewed to have no place in this specific music genre. However, throughout the growing years of country and folk music, female artists rightfully gained their place in music. ... This song became country music's first female artist number one Billboard hit. ... During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, a push of resistance against female recording artists were greatly felt. ... Songs of woman empowerment began to become popular along with the common female love song. ...

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Dating back to the wonder eras of the 1950's through the 1970's, rock and roll was predominantly written and performed by male musicians, ultimately creating a void of female artistry. ... Another step towards gender equality within the music community can be seen through the Los Angeles based festival, FYF Fest, which began independently in 2004 and has continuously made an effort to set up an assortment of female artists for their lineup. ... Although powerful voices of women such as Lady Gaga, Alanis Morissette, and Amy Winehouse who have become essential ingredients to our modern...

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African Americans used music as a form of empowerment and a source of identifying blackness, unity and strength. ... Both women are revolutionary beings within African American music because they empower the thought of being both female and black. ... Therefore, identifying black identity and blackness came fought through the method of music. ... They created a familiarity of home through music. ... Music is now used as an instrument of culture through its flamboyant colors, and design. ...

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Among all the female artists out there why does one woman have such an impact of music and was not because of her voice because anyone can have a pretty voice. ... "[She made it] OK for women to look, sound and act unpretty while at the same time making it all right for them to express sexuality from a posture of strength instead of merely through coyness the way white female pop singers were" (cite this). ... Through Joplin's attitude with her lyrics and her stage performances she created a sexualuality with music that was not present before her time. ... Through her inspiration Joplin h...

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Walser identified four such strategies that he found articulated in song lyrics, through the use of musical codes and music videos. ... " "There are just two types of female making pop music today - those blessed with good looks, and those who would perhaps be better served by an undercover visit to the local plastic surgeon. ... Their key albums are: Pretty on the Inside (1991), Live Through This (1994), and Celebrity Skin (1998). ... Live Through This draws on punk, rock and grunge and it parallels with Nirvana's Nevermind. ... "Riot Grrrl was essentially about empowerm...

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Feminism took full force during the twentieth century through the use of film, music, and especially literature. Several brave female writers came forth during this period, to speak out against their oppression through the means of poetry, the application of atypical female characters, and the use of symbolism embodying monarchy and oppressive patriarchy. ... Sylvia Plath became known as a feminist writer through her poems that exposed patriarchal oppression. ... Diane Di Prima presents a female character that contorts the patriarchal female gender role. ... Diane Di Prima presents feminism th...

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Even the rather conservative Sunday Telegraph recognized her as the 'female icon of the age.' ... She also holds the Largest Internet Pop Concert, which 11 million people all over the world watched her concert through the internet at the same time on November 28, 2000. ... She now has the most Top 40 Singles (44) any female artist ever. ... Those two albums were also the Top 10 first-week sales albums by female artists. ... Madonna used her image as a sexual signifier and projected them as of school-girl, virgin, slut, whore, sire and sex-goddess through media and her mus...

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The music is big and brash followed by scenes with an expected climax. ... The music is a little strange though, it is a mixture of all different contemporary music performed in a time of the 1900s. ... It builds and quickens to the tempo of the music and has a grand finale. ... Their love is forbidden, however weaves its way through the precarious situation they are in. ... He plays the martyr until his lust empowers him, and he threatens to have Christian killed. ...

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The country and western music is playing in the background off camera, which gives the spectator dirty tacky suspicion that is later confirmed by the later events. ... A homosexual male would not try to fetishise the female form nor wish to control a female role. ... However, both women are empowered and when faced with the decision they make, they are more powerful than the police with guns (phallic objects) that surround them. Glenn Man (1993) agrees with the idea that Thelma and Louise empowers the female characters, "What the narration of Thelma and Louise attempts to do then is to in...

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