Feminist music?

Question

Any feminist artists or feminism related songs you can think of?

Answer 1

Check out Ladyslipper, all things feminist music-wise:
http://www.ladyslipper.org

Here's some feminists and women artists I know of and have heard/seen in person:

Holly Near: Something About The Women
http://www.hollynear.com/bio.html

Sweet Honey in the Rock: The Women Gather
http://sweethoney.com/biogr.html

Mahotella Queens: Women Of The World

Betty (absolutely wild women) http://www.hellobetty.com/presspool/press_bio.html

Indigo Girls
http://www.indigogirls.com/home.html

Joan Armatrading
http://www.joanarmatrading.com/

Diedre McCalla
http://www.deidremccalla.com/deidremccallapro.html

Lucie Blue Tremblay
http://www.luciebluetremblay.com/

Laura Love
http://lauralove.net/

Bonnie Raitt
Melissa Etheridge
The Slits
Michelle Shocked
Shawn Colvin
Queen Latifah
Dixie Chicks
Tracy Chapman
Celtic Woman
Cherish the Ladies
Mary Black
Nancy Griffith
Ani DiFranco
KD Lang
Toshi Reagon (produced on Ani DiFranco's label)
Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women
Tres Chicas
PJ Harvey
Jane Siberry
Faith Nolan
Margie Adams
Ferron
Tret Fure
Cris Williamson
Heather Bishop

Answer 2

Well...Helen Reddy, Ani Difranco, Alanis Morrisette, my personal favourite, Tracy Bonham (check out "Bulldog")...I would even say Alice Cooper, who has two songs, one Only Women Bleed, and Take it Like a Woman. I'm actually a big fan of Alice Cooper--one of the most pro-woman artists out there, who has received a lot of bad press for what he's actually trying to critique. Aimee Mann, the Cranberries, Sarah McLaughlin, Jann Arden, Sinead O'Connor, the Dixie Chicks...I know you're looking specifically for feminist songs, but I'm not sure if there are actual "feminist" songs per se (Bread and Roses, yes) but pro-women songs there are plenty of. Not sure if this is what you're looking for. Cheers!

Answer 3

Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morrissette, Tori Amos, Madonna, The Indigo Girls, Courtney Love come to mind.

Answer 4

Ani DiFranco
Sarah McLachlan
Tori Amos

Answer 5

I was thinking about Pauline Oiveiros:

http://www.oberlin.edu/con/portrait/199904/oliveros_pauline.html

Or Laurie Anderson:

http://www.laurieanderson.com/

Or Carla Blay:

http://www.jazzedoltre.it/archivio/Carla%20Blay/default.htm

Fabulous contemporary composers, perhaps not necessarily with a feminist theme, but the voice of women in their compositions. I love their work, very avant-garde by the way ;-)

Answer 6

Yeah, i think of heart became the chief in that field. i don't think of the only's you reported quite in high-quality condition that catagory. Grace Slick became additionally quite of a pacesetter. a pair of Suzzane Vega tracks qualify, like My call is Luka. you additionally can qualify Carole King to a delicate degree with songs like Will you nonetheless Love Me the next day that's incredibly insightful for a 17 12 months previous lady interior the early 60s She understood sexual certainty Jainis Ian became greater social consciouis The femminist area starts popping out from the girls persons searching for romance in all of the incorrect places and getting burned for this reason they placed them into songs Helen Reddy became a ridicule femminist. It became contrived like the Spice ladies, it became a planned and correctly performed automobile. So I quite tend to low fee her, regardless of the anthem i'm lady hear ME ROAR Helen Reddy and her husband KNEW what they have been doing and that they observed an danger and took great element approximately it. I quite tend to sense Ann Wison's Magic guy is a truer music, in all likelihood approximately her little sister and her lead guitarist you're able to take those lyrics aside to truly appreaciate what Annie did with the music It became an interior out view. She disected sexual charm ellegantly long earlier books like sturdy lady undesirable guy Ann Wilson became making a music approximately it. SHe's a fly on the wall. a 0.33 occasion observer of her very own spieces. and he or she does not mince words. between her lyrical concept and Howard Leese's musical association (he did all of the lead guitar and keyboard paintings) became that right into a classic that floored me and my male musicl chum the evening we heard it on radio for the 1st time and went out to discover the checklist. We in no way heard something like it phiosophically or musically. It us it became floor breaking. possibly to not intense paintings like Roundabout or Stairway to Heaven, despite the fact that it became particularly unique. What became that, 1979. 1980.

Answer 7

Melissa Etheridge.

Loretta Lynn, whose "The Pill" was banned from the public airwaves because it was about a woman celebrating her sexuality.

Wynona Judd.

Answer 8

Just you and your hand tonight by pink
still dirty by christina aguilera
the names sound the opposite but u shud listen to them (only certain parts of the latter though.

Answer 9

This is my first I have lstened to. You judge for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adjGYoPKA0

Translation of the lyrics from Swedish:

"I hate you, f***** "man", you think you know, you think you can, everything about women, everything about our lives, but you know nothing, dude, old man, f****** man, you'd all better start to run, 'Cos here are women, that hates you all so much, we're gonna rip you apart!!!"

Answer 10

i've heard that Hole is feminist...
read that in a feminist book called "*****"

LS- she said FEMINIST not MISANDRIST
i know, they both end in "-ist". it's SOOO confusing...