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The next year, McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, taking Lilith from the Jewish lore that Lilith was Adam's first wife who refused to be subservient to him. [3] In 1997, Lilith Fair garnered a $16 million gross, making it the top-grossing of any touring festival. [2] Among all concert tours for that year, it was the 16th-highest grossing. [2]
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 1 was released in 1998 and served as a fundraiser for Lifebeat and the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. [1] The recording was produced by Terry McBride and compiled over four months, going through recordings spanning the entire festival.
Lilith Fair tour brought together two million people over its three-year history and raised more than $7 million for charities. It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the biggest music festivals of the 1990s, and helped launch the careers of several well-known female artists.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. Female entity in Near Eastern mythology This article is about the religious figure Lilith. For other uses, see Lilith (disambiguation). Lilith (1887) by John Collier Lilith, also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology, theorized to be ...
Lilith is a feminine given name sometimes given in reference to Lilith, a character in Jewish folklore who was said to be the first wife of the first man Adam who disobeyed him, was banished from the Garden of Eden, and who became a mythical she-demon. [2] The mythological tale has inspired modern feminists. [3] [4] [5]
The obvious injustice to Lilith— who seems to have asked no more than her fair half, while Adam was the encroacher, on the assumption that they were created equal —inspired Collier's version of the legend, according to which Lilith leaves Eden voluntarily, rather than submit to dominance, but loses thereby the blessing of motherhood.
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The song from Lilith that generated the most attention was its funeral “Dirge.” Like all but one of the Lilith songs, “Dirge” was published before the Lilith book—in this case, a full year before, when the song first appeared in H. L. Mencken’s prestigious, rebellious Smart Set. Singer Mrs. William Elgin Travis (one of Sterling’s ...