Women in country music have worked hard to establish themselves. Choose 4 women and describe how their songs and lives/careers illustrate the changes through the century.
Dolly Parton: Even though she grew up in humble family, presently she has excelled to greater heights. She was greatly influenced by Johnny cash who urged her to move to Nashville. She was very lucky to meet with porter Wagoner who extended his hand and she was capable of building her career from then. One of the greatest strengths of Dolly Parton is in songwriting and most of her hits are accompanied with compositions. Together with that, she has done some movies an aspect that her seen her through in the music industry, particularly under the country music.
Kitty Wells: she is considered as one of the first female artist to own LP. Additional, she produced the first controversial song’ "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” This was a great hit in the media, as she was responding to the #1 hit produced by well-liked, Hank Thompson, "Wild Side of Life.". She has done marvelous and opened gates for very many people.
Patsy Cline: She is named as one of the women aspirant in the country music in the present day. She has what it takes, beautiful voice, to win the minds and hearts of her audience. Surprisingly, she became the first woman to lead in the pop charts, with her song "Walking After Midnight." She has proven that, women are also capable of performing just like men, by selling numerous records and tickets at their own performances.
Loretta Lynn: she is an inspirational songwriter and an artist. She got married at a young age, but she successfully managed to raise a family. She moved from one radio station to the other being accompanied by her husband, Mooney, and recorded her own hits. She happened to be the first women within the music industry to have the best top hits.
How folk music has influenced country music
Even at the present moment, folk music is very much alive and powerful in the American music industry. It is one of the music genres that were popularly influenced by some of the renowned folk artists of the 1960s. Most of the groups in the American Society associate themselves with the Folk group, even their music may greatly differ from those of renowned folk musicians, like, Bob Dylan, Donovan and so forth who lived in the 1960s.
The styles used in producing the songs, include the indie folk, the freak folk among others. This kind of music exists almost everywhere and it takes any tune as someone walks, works or done something. On the other hand, country music is considered as one of the most fashionable genre of music in the present America. It is music with an extended history having emanated from the traditional old-time music in the southern.
The old time music in this case is the folk music and most of the elements used in country music stemmed out from the folk music. In other words, folk music can be considered as the initiator of the country music and the only thing that has changed is the use of instruments and may be the change of the tone. Everything else has its root cause from the folk music.
Using your understanding of themes in the blues, demonstrate how these themes inform both country and popular music
Blues have their exceptional way on how they are played. They are mostly played with a lower pitch. Most of themes invokes a feeling of grief or rather depression. They are mostly preferred by most people at times when one feels that he/she needs some quite environment or rather going through some emotional feeling. This genre started in the African-American society and progressed on as a synthesis of spirituals, working songs and so forth. These songs were considered as having the greatest of all over other genres of music. Their style does not change and all what the artists does is adding some touch to the genre.
Just as the country music, Blues from the earlier times started from the slave field shouts, which later evolved into an emotional content. In most cases, the themes used in Blues may be difficult to comprehend at a first glance; one is required to keenly listen to the song so as to grasp the message. In that case, the themes used may be said to be informative towards both the country and the popular music. Similarly, for a person to grasp the message relied by the country music, a second and third listening is required.
Most of messages are not as direct as one may expect. The artist may be communicating a certain thing which he/she finds to be very crucial in a person’s life or rather within the society. Together with that, popular music is one of the genres that satisfy the most superior modes of reaction. Being a superior genre maximum attention is necessary in order to comprehend and understand the message being relied. In this case, popular music is said to sacrifice autonomy, since the style used is facilitated by the functional hassles for touching expressions and for dance rhythms.
Comparing contemporary (1980-present) singers, what makes a country singer country and not pop Many are successful in both, but more identified with country.
Most of the popular songs were mostly associated to philosophical aspect. Even those this ideology has partially changed in the contemporary time, there are still some aspects that still make it philosophical. In the modern time, country music has become so diverse and various genres have evolved from it with diverse themes and even changed styles in terms of dancing. This is tremendously being influenced by the contemporary society.
In essence, that is the kind of music style that the world needs at the present time. Therefore, if a music genre clings on one aspect, the society may within time discard such kind of music genre. The reason as to why popular music is not well upheld by most people is due to the aspect that most of its selective words debate on art and aesthetic value. It is not everyone who is interested in such field. The present world requires a vibrant and a touching music talking mostly about the social and emotional aspect of life.
Loretta Lynn is considered country feminist. Discuss two of her songs and explain why that description fits
Artist- Loretta Lynn
Song – Coal miner’s daughter
The song was produced in 1970, and after 4 years, in 1974, it had become very popular. The description well fits considering that Loretta was born in an object and poverty way. Her father was a coal miner and she was brought up the hard way. She is very proud being born and brought up as a coal miner’s daughter. She says that is a past memory since everything changed but she can never deny the kind of life and also her father.
Artist: Loretta Lynn
Song: Trouble on the line
Loretta believes that there must be a trouble on the line, because every time she communicates with the lord, there is a bad link. She is therefore remorseful about the situation.
Describe the Lilith archetype and cite 2 contemporary songs (after 1990) that illustrate this archetype.
There are numerous legends and resources that explain on the origin of Lilith. There is neither of them that could be considered right or rather complete. She was once considered as a Sumerian fertility or rather an agricultural goddess. Over the recent years, she has been embraced in the contemporary life and even songs, lyrics, poems composed of about her. She has numerous origins depending on the religious aspect of different people. The below songs have been composed about Lilith.
Artist: Michelene Wandor:
Song: "Eve to Lilith" 1995
Artist: M. Kelley Hunter,
Song: Lilith: A Monologue, 1995
References
Bufwack. M. (2003). Finding Her Voice. The Saga of Women in Country Music (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 102-4. 25
Marcic. D. (2002).Respect: women and popular music, Texere, University of Michigan.
