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Part 2: Next Stop is Vietnam - The music of the Vietnam War peace movement in the 1960s; Part 3: Fight the Power - Protest music in the 1970s and the 1980s; Part 4: Say it Loud - An overview of politics in black music, from Paul Robeson to Ms Dynamite; Part 5: We Are The World - the big aid concerts of the 1990s
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 ...
The Women's Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment , which effectively gave American women the right to vote. [ 1 ]
The film was met with mixed reviews upon its release. Based on 48 reviews, the film holds a rating of 65% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes The site's consensus is: "Spanning over a decade, One Sings, The Other Doesn't is a thoughtfully radical tale of two friends that captures female solidarity with an honest beat set to the fight for women's rights."
Similarly in 1917, music was used again in the fight for women's rights when six women were arrested for protesting outside of the White House. [21] In response the women formed a song service which sparked song competitions across the country wherein the public could write and submit their own suffragist music.
"Respect" has appeared in dozens of films and still receives consistent play on radio stations. In the 1970s, Franklin's version of the song came to exemplify the feminist movement. [26] Producer Wexler said in a Rolling Stone interview, that Franklin's song was "global in its influence, with overtones of the civil-rights movement and gender ...
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HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture was a women's music magazine published three times a year from 1984–1994. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] It was founded in Chicago by volunteers Toni Armstrong Jr., Michele Gautreaux, Ann Morris and Yvonne Zipter; Armstrong Jr. became the sole publisher in 1985. [ 28 ]