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This is a list of songs described as feminist anthems celebrating women's empowerment, or used as protest songs against gender inequality. These songs range from airy pop affirmations such as " Girls Just Want to Have Fun " by Cyndi Lauper , to solemn calls to action such as "We Shall Go Forth" by Margie Adam .
Protest songs typically serve to address some social, political, or economic concern through the means of musical composition. [1] In the 19th century, American protest songs focused heavily on topics including slavery, poverty, and the Civil War while the 20th century saw an increased popularity in songs pertaining to women's rights , economic ...
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Some of the performers of the genre were also known to have lived the part—both Édith Piaf and Fréhel sang in the streets as children, were teenage mothers and lost their children very young—and many shortened their lives with drugs, alcohol and illness: Yvonne George lived an excessive lifestyle and died at the age of 34; Fréhel became ...
"The March of the Women" is a song composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton. It became the official anthem of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and more widely the anthem of the women's suffrage movement throughout the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
This is the songbook used at the Women's Temperance Organization from Wilkinsburg, PA. From the 1840s to 1920, the American Temperance Movement produced a large number of songs. Some of the more notable composers were Stephen Foster, Mrs. E.A. Parkhurst, M. Evans, George F. Root, and Henry Work. Another specific example of a popular song of the ...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. ... Lastly, some acrobatic acts were also considered ...
"Union Maid" is a union song, with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view. [1] The melody is the 1907 standard "Red Wing" by Kerry Mills, [2] which was in turn adapted from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" in his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68.