1960s: New wave of female singer-songwriters
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| [[File:Joan Baez 1963.jpg|right|thumb | alt=Baez stands behind a too-tall podium bristling with microphones, wearing a plaid sleeveless top, longish hair in a feather cut |[[Joan Baez]] playing at the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] in August 1963]] | [[File:Joan Baez 1963.jpg|left|thumb | alt=Baez stands behind a too-tall podium bristling with microphones, wearing a plaid sleeveless top, longish hair in a feather cut |[[Joan Baez]] playing at the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] in August 1963]] |
| By the late 1960s, a new wave of female singer-songwriters broke from the confines of pop, writing more personal songs in the confessional style of poets like [[Anne Sexton]] and [[Sylvia Plath]]. The artists spearheading this movement were featured in ''[[Newsweek]]'', July 1969, "The Girls: Letting Go": "What is common to them – to [[Joni Mitchell]] and [[Lotti Golden]], to Laura Nyro, [[Melanie Safka|Melanie]], [[Janis Ian]] and to Elyse Weinberg, are the personalized songs they write, like voyages of self-discovery."<ref name="Newsweek1969">{{Cite magazine |last=Saal |first=Hubert |date=14 July 1969 |title=The Girls: Letting Go |magazine=[[Newsweek]] |pages=68–71}}</ref> While innovating, these women also faced many struggles such as discrimination. In a male-dominated publishing world, female songwriters such as Joni Mitchell want to be seen outside categories of race and gender, and into the category of pure artistry.<ref name="GirlsRock">{{Cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Mina |url=https://archive.org/details/girlsrockfiftyye0000cars |title=Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music |last2=Lewis |first2=Tisa |last3=Shaw |first3=Susan M. |last4=Baumgardner |first4=Jennifer |last5=Richards |first5=Amy |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |year=2004 |isbn=9780813123103 |edition=1 |jstor=j.ctt130j6dp |url-access=registration}}</ref> In her 1994 interview with [[Alice Echols|Alice Echol]], Joni Mitchell rejected feminism but voiced her animosity towards discrimination, sex-based exclusion, and gratuitous sexualization. Echol places Mitchell's "discomfort with the feminist label into the context of her artistry."<ref name="GirlsRock"/> Women songwriters want to be seen as good musicians without having their talents marginalized because of their gender. Moreover, [[Grace Slick]], a former model, was widely known in rock and roll history for her role in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. In ''[[The Guardian]]'', 26 January 2017, author Laura Barton describes the radical shift in subject matter – politics, drugs, disappointment, the isolation of the itinerant performer, and urban life.<ref name="Barton">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...w-female-troubadours-changed-music|title=From Joni Mitchell to Laura Marling: how female troubadours changed music|first=Laura|last=Barton|date=26 January 2017|website=The Guardian|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> Native New Yorker, [[Lotti Golden]], in her Atlantic debut album ''[[Motor-Cycle (album)|Motor-Cycle]]'', chronicled her life in NYC's East Village in the late 1960s counterculture, visiting subjects such as gender identity ("The Space Queens [Silky is Sad]") and excessive drug use ("Gonna Fay's"). The women in the 1969 ''Newsweek'' article ushered in a new age of the singer-songwriter, informing generations of women singer-songwriters from the 1970s to the present day.<ref name="Newsweek1969" /><ref name="Barton"/> | By the late 1960s, a new wave of female singer-songwriters broke from the confines of pop, writing more personal songs in the confessional style of poets like [[Anne Sexton]] and [[Sylvia Plath]]. The artists spearheading this movement were featured in ''[[Newsweek]]'', July 1969, "The Girls: Letting Go": "What is common to them – to [[Joni Mitchell]] and [[Lotti Golden]], to Laura Nyro, [[Melanie Safka|Melanie]], [[Janis Ian]] and to Elyse Weinberg, are the personalized songs they write, like voyages of self-discovery."<ref name="Newsweek1969">{{Cite magazine |last=Saal |first=Hubert |date=14 July 1969 |title=The Girls: Letting Go |magazine=[[Newsweek]] |pages=68–71}}</ref> While innovating, these women also faced many struggles such as discrimination. In a male-dominated publishing world, female songwriters such as Joni Mitchell want to be seen outside categories of race and gender, and into the category of pure artistry.<ref name="GirlsRock">{{Cite book |last1=Carson |first1=Mina |url=https://archive.org/details/girlsrockfiftyye0000cars |title=Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music |last2=Lewis |first2=Tisa |last3=Shaw |first3=Susan M. |last4=Baumgardner |first4=Jennifer |last5=Richards |first5=Amy |publisher=[[University Press of Kentucky]] |year=2004 |isbn=9780813123103 |edition=1 |jstor=j.ctt130j6dp |url-access=registration}}</ref> In her 1994 interview with [[Alice Echols|Alice Echol]], Joni Mitchell rejected feminism but voiced her animosity towards discrimination, sex-based exclusion, and gratuitous sexualization. Echol places Mitchell's "discomfort with the feminist label into the context of her artistry."<ref name="GirlsRock"/> Women songwriters want to be seen as good musicians without having their talents marginalized because of their gender. Moreover, [[Grace Slick]], a former model, was widely known in rock and roll history for her role in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. In ''[[The Guardian]]'', 26 January 2017, author Laura Barton describes the radical shift in subject matter – politics, drugs, disappointment, the isolation of the itinerant performer, and urban life.<ref name="Barton">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...w-female-troubadours-changed-music|title=From Joni Mitchell to Laura Marling: how female troubadours changed music|first=Laura|last=Barton|date=26 January 2017|website=The Guardian|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> Native New Yorker, [[Lotti Golden]], in her Atlantic debut album ''[[Motor-Cycle (album)|Motor-Cycle]]'', chronicled her life in NYC's East Village in the late 1960s counterculture, visiting subjects such as gender identity ("The Space Queens [Silky is Sad]") and excessive drug use ("Gonna Fay's"). The women in the 1969 ''Newsweek'' article ushered in a new age of the singer-songwriter, informing generations of women singer-songwriters from the 1970s to the present day.<ref name="Newsweek1969" /><ref name="Barton"/> |
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