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The Women's Music classification is based on the identity of musicians such as women, feminist, and lesbian, etc. [1] This label let the lesbian community have chances to break their isolation from other communities in that they can use Women's Music to hint or shows their identity as lesbian to others. [6]
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 ]
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.
In the early 1970s, there were large protests about a proposed nuclear power plant in Wyhl, Germany. The project was cancelled in 1975 and anti-nuclear success at Wyhl inspired opposition to nuclear power in other parts of Europe and North America. [134] Nuclear power became an issue of major public protest in the 1970s. [135]
CBS was the first major network to cover women's liberation when it aired coverage on 15 January 1970 of the D.C. Women's Liberation group's disruption of Senate hearings on birth control as a small item in their broadcast. Within a week, the women's protests became leading stories on both CBS and ABC.
Gloria Steinem at news conference, Women's Action Alliance, January 12, 1972 Women's Liberation march in Washington, D.C., 1970 Betty Friedan 1960 Germaine Greer in June 1972 "Second-wave feminism" identifies a period of feminist activity from the early 1960s through the late 1980s that saw cultural and political inequalities as inextricably ...
Garage rock was a form of amateurish rock music, particularly prevalent in North America in the mid-1960s and so called because of the perception that it was rehearsed in a suburban family garage. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Garage rock songs revolved around the traumas of high school life, with songs about "lying girls" being particularly common. [ 23 ]
The movement spread quickly through museum protests in both New York (May 1970) and Los Angeles (June 1971), via an early network called W.E.B. (West-East Bag) that disseminated news of feminist art activities from 1971 to 1973 in a nationally circulated newsletter, and at conferences such as the West Coast Women's Artists Conference held at ...