Women's music

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Women's music is a type of music base on the ideas of feminist separatism and lesbian-separatism, designed to inspire feminist consciousness, [1] chiefly in Western popular music, to promote music "by women, for women, and about women". [2]

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Women's music initially focused on feminism questions which exposed the unfair treatment on female from society and families that was ignored by men. Its lyrics focused on the power of women individually and in women solidarity. Later, it became lesbian music.

As an offshoot of the feminist movement, the genre was referred to as a musical expression of the second-wave feminist movement [3] and included the female labor, civil rights, and peace movements. [4] The movement was started by lesbian performers such as Cris Williamson, Meg Christian and Margie Adam, African-American musicians including Linda Tillery, Mary Watkins, Gwen Avery [5] and activists such as Bernice Johnson Reagon and her group Sweet Honey in the Rock, and peace activist Holly Near. [4] Women's music is not only associated with female performers but also had all female workers in the industry. Studio musicians, producers, sound engineers, technicians, cover artists, distributors, promoters, and festival organizers who are also women. [2]

History

Root

At the beginning of 1970s, as a second-wave feminists began, feminists did not fight for lesbians. While the Stonewall Riots in 1969 became the cradle for the Gay Liberation Movement, political feminists felt the danger of their past efforts and that their activities may be negatively labeled. They were often hostile to lesbian women. Further fragmentation between straight women and lesbians during the era was the rejection by National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) to lesbians. N.O.W. member Betty Friedan alleged lesbians were a lavender menace. A series of movements against the homosexual community began, with the central role labeling Gay Liberation as counterrevolutionary and bourgeois. The extreme rejection of lesbians led many political-concerned women to join lesbian-feminist collectives and sometimes led to lesbian separatist. [6]

Women's music was initially capturing the feminist’s central point, in bands such as Deadly Nightshade, the Chicago, and New Haven Women's Liberation bands, etc. They broadcast the ideas of the feminists' position but did not highlight the lesbian's aspect of view. [6]

Origin of Women's Music

In 1963, the American singer-songwriter Lesley Gore recorded and published her song "You Don't Own Me" expressing threatened emancipation, as the singer refrains to a lover that they "don't own" her, that they aren't to tell her what to do or what to say, and that they are not to put her on display. The song's lyrics became an inspiration for younger women and are sometimes cited as a factor in the second wave feminist movement. [7]

Development

In the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, some critics and musicians perceived that there were few "positive women's images within popular music" and a "lack of opportunities for female performers". [8] They viewed women as having a disadvantage in the field because of their difference in gender. [9] At the time, major US record labels had only signed a few women's bands, including Fanny, Birtha, The Deadly Nightshade, Goldie and the Gingerbreads and the band that evolved into Isis. [10] In reaction to this perceived lack of inclusion of women in the mainstream, some feminists decided it necessary for women to create a separate space for women to create music. Lesbian and feminist separatism was then used as a "tactic which focused women's energy and would give an enormous boost to the growth and development of women's music." [11]

The genre, which first came to be known as "lesbian music," [12] has its roots in certain musical contributions of the 1960s and is defined by the artists and labels in the 1970s who built upon this foundation in order to foster a lesbian-oriented musical movement. [12]

Out of the separatist movement came the first distributed examples of music created specifically for lesbians or feminists. In 1972, Maxine Feldman, who had been an "out" (openly gay) performer since 1964, recorded the first overtly lesbian record, "Angry Atthis" (Atthis was a lover of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho). Feldman had been performing the song since 1969, and its lyrics were specific to her feelings and experiences as a lesbian. In the same year the feminist all-woman bands The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band and the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band released Mountain Moving Day. In 1973, Alix Dobkin, flautist Kay Gardner, and bassist Patches Attom created the group Lavender Jane, and recorded an album entitled Lavender Jane Loves Women, the first full-length album for and by lesbians. These early recordings relied on sales through mail order and in a few lesbian-feminist bookstores, like Lambda Rising in Washington, D.C., as well as promotion by word of mouth. [13] In May 1974, the women who would go on to form the first European women's rock band performed at a women's music festival in Berlin. [14] They formed the German women's rock band Flying Lesbians and released one self-titled album in 1975.

Social/Political Impacts to Women's Music

Goldenrod Music Distribution, founded by Terry Grant in 1975, has been credited by Lauron Kehrer as a major influence in the launch of the women's music movement. [1] Kehrer noted that although the organization was founded on the premise of helping women and lesbians, it was unable to work around the contradictions surrounding the company's ethics[ specify ] and place in a capitalist society. [1]

In the late period of the Women's Music, the focus became lesbian separatism. Most Women's Music festivals used either private land or one-time event contracts in order to insure that they could exclude men from the space. Certain ones either excluded boys above a certain age or didn't even allow boys. The most extreme and controversial shows were at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. [6] The extreme central idea from musician cross into the context of their music and the performance that contains racism to other groups.

Purpose and Influence of Women's Music

There are common European classical semiotic codes that have been used throughout centuries to express femininity. [15] These musical gestures changed over time as the meaning of femininity changed from the image of a beautiful woman gazed at from the male point of view to a woman's view of herself full of strength and inner charm, [6] but they always kept to their purpose: truthful expressionism.

Feminist musicians aimed to show a positive, proactive, and assertive image of women that not only critiqued the rifts in regards to gender, but also demonstrated the goals of the feminist movement in terms of social justice regarding gender as well as the right of privacy concerning abortion and birth control. [16] With the goal of breaking down the gender divide and level the gender differences, some women in this genre of music "adopt[ed] male dress codes and hair styles". [17] Women also voiced their opinions and the goals of the feminist movement through lyrical contributions. In "I Am Woman," Helen Reddy sings, "I am woman/hear me roar/And I've been down there on the floor/No one's ever gonna keep me down again." [18] Reddy creates a feeling of "girl power" that reflected the ambitions of the feminist movement.

Lesbians found ways to express themselves through musical composition. Ethel Smyth, a composer, encoded her lesbian life experiences in her music. [15] Genders of composers, writers, artists, and more have a lot to do with how music is perceived and interpreted. Cues such as tempo, articulation, and other dynamics signify many different types of meanings – they are not standard. [15] Each musician uses these codes and cues to suit their music, and thus express themselves through song.

Additionally, as lesbian musicians expressed themselves through music, they also broke the isolation of lesbians in North American. They let the lesbians evolve a group identity and another possible coming-out process. Such that lesbians are able to hint to their families and friends about their identity by send them a CD of lesbian musicians' work. [19]

Downfall of Women's Music

Label on Musicians

The Women's Music classification is based on the identity of musicians such as women, feminist, and lesbian, etc. [1] This label let the lesbian community have chances to break their isolation from other communities in that they can use Women's Music to hint or shows their identity as lesbian to others. [6] However, being labeled as Women's Music musicians may limit people's imagination on their music ability. Some musicians are more likely to give a more specific classification for their music based on the type of music, thus expanding the listening group. Some musicians did not want to show their identity to the public due to the marketing aspect. [1]

Fission in the Community

Racism

The late period of Women's Music, the white women dominant extreme central ideas that led to racism to other groups, such as people of color, straight women, men, transgenders, even lesbians who have children and who had relationship with men before. The extreme musicians aspect infuse into their music thus cause the audiences from those communities got mad which limit the audience groups. [6]

Separation between New Lesbian and Old Lesbian Separatist

Old lesbian separatist ideas, such as the exclusion of transgender women, were often more rigid and tended to dominate late Women's Music. The new generation of lesbians were more inclusive of transgender and other lesbian identities, leading to division between the two groups.[ citation needed ] For example, the transgender sound engineer Sandy Stone, was made to resign from Olivia Records due to a group of women who threatened to boycott to the company due to her identity as a transgender woman. This led to series of movements during the era to protest against the exclusion of transgender women from women-only spaces.[ citation needed ]

Financial and Social Issues

Due to the speciality of purpose of Women's Music, create a women-only space, and the cultural shocks to traditional patriarchal society, it is hard for the companies whose focus on Women's Music to gained any financial through it under a male dominant and capitalized society, such as the male dominant companies refuse to collaborate with them. Additionally, the risk in Women's Music financially that appears is clear that as Women's Music records tried to financing, rarely got anyone took the risk to invest. Thus most of Women's Music records shut down.

Record labels, distributors, and publications

Cris Williamson, whose 1975 album The Changer and The Changed was the best-selling women's music album and one of the best-selling albums by an independent label during the 1970s, in concert in 2013 CrisWilliamson2013.jpg
Cris Williamson, whose 1975 album The Changer and The Changed was the best-selling women's music album and one of the best-selling albums by an independent label during the 1970s, in concert in 2013

Olivia Records, the first women's music record label, was created in 1973 by a collective including artist Meg Christian. Starting with a single that was successfully sold by mail order, Olivia was able to release Meg Christian's I Know You Know and Cris Williamson's The Changer and the Changed.The Changer and the Changed was "one of the all-time best selling albums on any independent label" [20] at that time, and was also the first LP to be entirely produced by women. [21] "Changer" is the all-time best-selling album to come out of the women's music genre. [21]

Several other independent labels were created by artists such as Kay Gardner with the record label Wise Woman/Urana, Margie Adam with the record label Pleiades, Ani DiFranco with the record label Righteous Babe Records, and Holly Near with the record label Redwood Records in 1972. Redwood records expanded the scope of women's music recordings to include women of color by recording Sweet Honey in the Rock, an a cappella group of African-American singers founded by Bernice Reagon in 1978. [22] As these record labels grew, so did the music genres represented, and the ethnic and social diversity of the artists expanded. Several other labels were also formed by artists; Berkeley Women's Music Collective, Woody Simmons, and Teresa Trull were distributed by Olivia through their network.

With the growth of independent record labels and increasing demand for women's music, an organized system for distribution and promotion became necessary. Goldenrod Music was formed in 1975 to distribute for Olivia Records, and later expanded distribution to include other labels. Ladyslipper, a non-profit organization formed in 1976 to promote and distribute women's music. Olivia's informal network formed WILD (Women's Independent Labels Distributors) in 1977 to distribute music into different regions of the United States. The organization had two purposes - to formally network and educate distributors on sales and business issues, and to bargain with Olivia while Olivia's financial pressures in turn pressured the distributors. In 1978, a national booking company, Roadwork Inc. was formed to promote women artists. [23]

All throughout the 1980s and 1990s, many women's bookstores that sold women's records relocated into smaller spaces or shut down. As a result, Olivia Records spread out to different industries to help its music projects become more profitable. With this expansion Olivia Records entered the travel industry, and Olivia Cruises and Resorts was founded in 1990. However, even with this expansion, sales in women's music continued to decline dramatically. [24]

There were many social and economic components that caused the women's music business to start failing in the 1980s and 1990s. In order to solve these different issues, the MIC (Music Industry Conference) came together to figure out what could be done. For an entire week around 80 women in the music business discussed the prevalent questions/concerns that were affecting women's music at that time. The main topics at the conference were the drop in concert sizes, the unreal pay demands by the female performers, the lack of diversity in women artists, and how Olivia Records, which was initially intended to be a female ran company, was giving high positions to men. [25]

HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture

HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture was a women's music magazine published three times a year from 1984–1994. [26] [27] It was founded in Chicago by volunteers Toni Armstrong Jr., Michele Gautreaux, Ann Morris and Yvonne Zipter; Armstrong Jr. became the sole publisher in 1985. [28] Tracy Baim of Windy City Times called HOT WIRE "the national voice of the burgeoning women's music movement and a wide-ranging chronicle of lesbian feminist culture." [29] The magazine was a separatist publication and named after Zipter's erotic poem "Finding the Hot Wire". [30] [31] The publication focused exclusively on lesbian feminist musicians, festivals, venues, and various topics pertaining to writing, theater, dance, comedy, and the arts. [32] Each 64-page issue included a soundsheet with at least four songs by lesbian and/or feminist artists.

Women's music festivals

The first women's music festival occurred in 1973 at Sacramento State University. In May, 1974 the first National Women's Music Festival was held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, founded by University of Illinois student Kristin Lems. [33] It celebrated its fortieth year in Middleton, Wisconsin, from July 2–5, 2015. The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival was created in 1976, and became the largest festival in the United States [34] before ceasing operations after the fortieth festival in August 2015. [35] The first West Coast Women's Musical and Cultural Festival, [36] also known as Women’s Music & Comedy Festival, was held in October 1980 in Yosemite. Robin Tyler and Tori Osborne co-produced the festival, which received seed money from an accident settlement. From 1985-1995, The West Coast Women’s Music and Comedy Festival was held at Camp Tawonga. [37] Every year, the organizers came with an all-women crew to set up an all-women space for a weekend of good food and entertainment. On the stage were Melissa Etheridge, Sweet Honey and the Rock, Teresa Trull, Ferron, Casselberry and Dupree, Lucie Blue Tremblay, Holly Near, and Chris Williamson. The last known festival took place on Labor Day Weekend in 1995.

Other festivals are Lilith Fair which toured from 1997–1999 and the Ohio Lesbian Festival, near Columbus Ohio, was created in 1988 and continues to be an ongoing celebration of womyn's music and culture. Many other festivals have been created throughout the United States and Canada since the mid-1970s and vary in size from a few hundred to thousands of attendees. The newest festival is the Los Angeles Women's Music Festival, which kicked off in 2007 with over 2,500 attendees, and which was originally scheduled to return in 2009, but has been on indefinite hiatus after the first event.[ citation needed ]

Though the festivals are centered on music, they support many other facets of lesbian and feminist culture. Designed to provide a safe space for women's music and culture, many festivals are held on college campuses or in remote rural locations. Many festivals offer workshops on topics concerning the lesbian and feminist community, offer activities such as arts, crafts, fitness classes, and athletic events, and serve to provide opportunities for women to take advantage of resources they often cannot find in mainstream culture. One festival that provides such workshops is the National Women's Music Festival. In 1992, the festival provided workshops covering topics such as “drama”,” film and video,” “access-abilities,” “women’s health/sports and fitness,” “older women,” spirituality,” “women’s empowerment,” “women of color, and a writer's conference in addition to other topics in a "general workshop series." [38]

Bonnie Morris describes in her book Eden Built by Eves, how festivals serve women throughout the stages of their lives. Festivals support a safe space for coming of age rituals for young women, adult romance and commitment ceremonies, the expression of alternative perspectives on motherhood, and the expression of grief and loss. [39] Though historically controversial, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is sometimes posed as an example of an environment that celebrates all women, not just those who conform to stereotypes in mainstream media. Morris describes attendees at the festival as "women who are sexy in wheelchairs, women who are sexy at 260 pounds, women who are sexy at age 70, long-term interracial romances - and all the rest of womenkind that television will not show or will tell us does not count." [40] Festivals also help create a sense of community for the lesbian community. The National Women's Music Festival has in addition to the many lesbian participants and organizers, the festival's music, humor, and crafts promote a "positive lesbian identity." The festival has also been a place where women can openly display their sexuality including same-sex affections. [41]

Currently, festivals continue to thrive in the United States and other countries.

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival transgender exclusion controversy

The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, or MWMF or MichFest for short, was a subject of controversy for much of its existence due to its intention to create a space for womyn born womyn. In 1991, Nancy Jean Burkholder was asked to leave MichFest on the basis of her being a trans woman; [42] the festival subsequently implemented its "womyn-born-womyn" policy [43] that would face fierce criticism from trans and LGBTQ+ activists and organizations. In 1995, Camp Trans was established and would stage a protest just outside the festival's venue [44] each year until 2010, when it was forced to shut down. Though the incident that happened in 1991 with Burkholder was the only time a trans woman was asked to leave the Festival, the controversy became an organizing tool to protest the intention of the Festival for 20 years. [45] Petitions and boycotts ensued from notable organizations like GLAAD [46] while MichFest founder Lisa Vogel insisted that it is not transphobic to have a "healthy, whole, loving space" for women who were assigned female at birth to come together. [47] The festival ceased operations after its 2015 rendition. [48]

While this controversy highlighted some of women's music's key issues with inclusivity, it is still notable that the "movement was engineered by an out trans woman" and that "Olivia Records, the radical feminist lesbian separatist music collective, was itself trans inclusive". [49]

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