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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 .
Since the 1970s women have added verses to "Solidarity Forever" to reflect their concerns as union members. One popular set of stanzas is: We're the women of the union and we sure know how to fight. We'll fight for women's issues and we'll fight for women's rights. A woman's work is never done from morning until night. Women make the union strong!
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The songs, written for the cause, unified women from varying geographic and socioeconomic positions because the empowering lyrics were set to widely known tunes. [2] Singing was expected from women, whereas political speaking was discouraged, which meant the use of music provided women with an outlet to voice their political opinion. [3]
Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03514-2. Koskoff, Ellen (1989). Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06057-1. Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse (1991). La Création musicale des femmes du Québec [Concerns women composers of ...
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Emmeline Pankhurst's statue, now the Pankhurst Memorial, unveiled in 1930 as Smyth conducted "The March of the Women" Smyth arranged the work several times. A version for choir and optional orchestra was included in Songs of Sunrise, a collection of three songs premiered on 1 April 1911 at the Queen's Hall, London. The other two songs in the ...
Eddie Vedder just gave Bruce Springsteen a special post-election song dedication from the other side of the world. “It's been a tricky time in our nation back home,” said Vedder from the stage ...