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1910. Cicely Hamilton. "The March of the Women". With words by Cicely Hamilton and music by Ethel Smyth, the song was the official anthem of British women fighting for voting rights, and was also sung worldwide. 1963. Lesley Gore. "You Don't Own Me". Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. 1967.
Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. In 2023 Rolling Stone ranked Simone at No. 21 on their list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. The sixth of eight children born into a poor family in North Carolina , Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist . [2]
Sister Suffragette. " Sister Suffragette " is a pro- suffrage protest song pastiche written and composed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (a duo known as the Sherman Brothers ). It was sung by actress Glynis Johns in the role of Mrs. Winifred Banks in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins. The song's melody was originally from a scrapped ...
— Susan B. Anthony, American women's rights activist known for her role in the women's suffrage movement “The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most ...
The 1990s also saw a sizable movement of pro-women's rights protest songs from many musical genres as part of the Third-wave feminism movement. Ani DiFranco was at the forefront of this movement, protesting sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights as well as racism, poverty, and war. Her "Lost Woman Song" (1990) concerns itself ...
Music was often used in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. Music played an instrumental role in the parades, rallies, and conventions that were held and attended by suffragists. [1] The songs, written for the cause, unified women from varying geographic and socioeconomic positions because the empowering lyrics were set to ...
Women's music. Women's music is a type of music base on the ideas of feminist separatism and lesbian-separatism, designed to inspire feminist consciousness, [1] chiefly in Western popular music, to promote music "by women, for women, and about women". [2]
The March of the Women. Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage petitioners on the steps of the United States Capitol, 9 May 1914. Those in the front line are singing "The March of the Women". " 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 ...