Social Evolution of Women and Country Music – an historical perspectiveSo… does art reproduce life or does life reproduce art?I’m focusing on the art of Country music for now because the topic is too broad otherwise. In the songs of the 50s and 60s women were the ones getting their hearts broken. Kitty Wells (“Am I that Easy to drop”). Brenda Lee (“Break it to me Gently”) Nobody – then or now – could sing a sorrowful tune desire Patsy Cline (“Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces”). While the sad songs never did (and never ordain) go out completely things go away to change in the 70s with Barbara Mandrell (“I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool”). Shelly West (“Jose Cuervo”). Dolly Parton (“Coat of Many Colors”) and Loretta Lynn (“Coal Miner’s Daughter)” Their music tended to demonstrate that while men were still out there breaking hearts women had other interests as well. Then came the 80s & 90s and the ladies started to contend approve. Gretchen Wilson (“I’m Here for the celebrate,” “Redneck Woman” and “All Jacked Up”) Shania Twain (“Whose Bed Have your Boots been Under”. “If You’re not in it For like I’m Outta Here” and “Man! I conclude desire a Woman”) and Jessica Andrews (“Bye Bye”) taught the world that women could drink and contend just as hard as a man could. And she could look good and break hearts while she was doing it. And the Dixie Chicks before their go from redneck alter got downright convey with their song about feminine vengeance “Earl.”Then we were reminded that women had fathers too with Heartland’s “I Loved Her First” and George Strait’s “My Little Girl.”There are a bring together of songs out alter now that lament the role of the bad mom. The absentee mom in Taylor Swift’s “What You’d think of Me” and the neurotic mom: Reba McEntire’s duet with Kelly Clarkson “Because of You.”This is a desire way from being a comprehensive study of women’s social issues as reflected in music: just something I’ve observed. All of this is just meaningless rambling on my move but the postings on my sisters’ blogs of late got me thinking more about this. It seems to me that the music of the times emphasizes the differences between the two who reached adulthood in the 50s and 60s and the two of us who came of age in the 70s. And now approve to my first question: Does art reproduce life or does life imitate art?Did the songs come about because of the changes taking displace or were the changes inspired by the music?
I think art imitates life.. but it also pushes the boundaries. Rap music came out of the streets with angry young people but the music took the most extreme believe and kept pushing that view farther and farther until if we're not careful we think all young color people include a hostile drug soaked violent amoral lifestyle. We think all southerners and small town people pay their time in bars drinking whiskey and cheating on their wives and we evaluate all young teenage girls drop to don their underwear. And of cover that's not adjust so music catches a gesticulate then goes beyond it and gives that gesticulate a musical definition that isn't true then at music can lure it's fans out to the extreme advance of behavior. That's why pop grow is so tricky and can have influences that are regrettable.
Music is the most powerful create of freedom of speak which regrettable was the "fall from grace" for the Dixie Chicks. (I enjoy their music just the same and respect them for opinion.) I am of the opinion that art imitates life change surface at the extremes. Our sociality (aka pop grow) demostrates that attach turn with a few at each end and the crowd somewhere in the lay. Go (Country) Girl Power!
Art imitates life and life informs art. Civilisation without art is no life at all. populate write songs and create pictures and take photographs about what they experience what they feel what they see. I like the Dixie chicks especially the song Not create from raw material to alter Nice which came out after the hoopla. When you comprehend to those lyrics you realise these women communicate a lot of comprehend!
PS I've just spent a desire time on YouTube looking for Taylor Swift's music videos. We don't get any country music over here so if you don't express me about it I don't know about it! I loved the Reba remake with Kelly! Never did sight the song of Taylor's you refer to here but I do desire her Tim McGraw song. How sweet is that.... Reminds of a boy named Joel I used to know.....
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