Respect : women and popular music / Dorothy Marcic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcic, Dorothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and music.

Women musicians.

Popular music--Social aspects.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Women and popular music

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Texere, [2002]

Summary:

An entertaining and unique look at the role of women in 20th century America through well-known songs. Dorothy Marcic has created a fascinating and original story chronicling the development of women. Using the country's Top 40 hits with archetypes, lyrics, and personal stories from 1900 through 2000, she shows how in the early part of the century song lyrics resonated with women's dependency and compliant natures; echoed their eventual rebellion in the late 1960s; and mirrored their development as mature, independent persons in the '90s. Although Marcic gives a strong nod to many of this century's influential women (including Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Lillian Gilbreth, Estee Lauder, Barbara Walters, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Andrea Jung, and Vera Wang), she emphasizes that most songs did not celebrate their unusual success, but instead highlighted the traumas for the majority of women. A wonderful opportunity to revisit this country's most popular songs and to develop a new understanding of women and their issues throughout the past century.

Contents:

Movement 1 Invisible, Dependent, and Sexy

Verse 1 1900-1929 "I'll Cook and Pay the Rent so Long as He Stays With Me" 3

Verse 2 1930-1939 "Innocent Sexpot Betty Boop and the Songs of the Depression" 25

Movement 2 Budding Strength Crushed Into Compliance

Verse 3 1940-1949 "Patriotic and Powerful" 43

Verse 4 1950-Mid-1960s "Rigid Gender Roles and Blissful Compliance" 56

Movement 3 Johnny, I'll Get Angry

Verse 5 1960s "You Don't Own Me" 103

Verse 6 1970s "I Will Survive" 129

Verse 7 1980s "What's Love Got to Do with It?" 158

Movement 4 Stand by Yourself

Verse 8 1990s "Strength and Sense of Self" 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.

ISBN:

1587990830

OCLC:

48487562