{"id":30850,"date":"2017-03-07T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T23:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=30850"},"modified":"2017-03-08T09:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:33:41","slug":"insound-protest-songs-written-by-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/insound-protest-songs-written-by-women\/","title":{"rendered":"InSound: Protest Songs Written by Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, organizers of the Women\u2019s March shared their call for a \u201cDay Without a Woman\u201d on Instagram: \u201cWe saw what happened when millions of us stood together in January, and now we know that our army of love greatly outnumbers the army of fear, greed and hatred. On March 8th, International Women\u2019s Day, let\u2019s unite again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The massive turnouts for the women\u2019s marches in January prove the beginning of a new wave of feminist action. And this is not just in America. It\u2019s already emerging internationally, from the women\u2019s strike in Poland, to Latin America, Italy, South Korea, and Ireland, just to scratch the surface. And International Women\u2019s Day is not a new celebration – the \ufb01rst National Woman’s Day (NWD) was observed across the United States in 1909. And just like then, today is all about unity, re\ufb02ection, advocacy, and action.<\/p>\n

So what can we listen to for preparation? Well, music preferences vary as much as each marcher is unique. And this is precisely the point.<\/p>\n

Protest music is as old as music itself. Some like to cite the 60\u2019s as the golden age of protest music. Its easy to name songs from the anti-Vietnam folk genre quickly, and thats fair, since the recordings are plentiful and still streaming on car radios today. And there\u2019s also 70\u2019s-80\u2019s political punk music, the Smithsonian Folkways collection of protest music covering the past 100 years, songbook grown modi\ufb01ed hymns, pride anthems where the music stays the same but the language di\ufb00ers, and excitable call\u00adand-response cheer chants we all are familiar with. New and noticeable in recent marches are the Instagram-ready and clickable comic approach to making signs and music. Humor has been trumping and transcending the recent landscape. Pop songs gone viral are reinvented in clever and funny ways, and standards are modi\ufb01ed (\u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d becomes \u201cWe Shall Overcomb.\u201d)<\/p>\n

This is the month to pull out your guitars, laptops, microphones, samplers, drums, basses, or anything you use of would like to use, and make some music. There\u2019s room for everyone to provide this form of energy and community, whether your songs are in the name of solidarity, empowerment, or full on disruption.<\/p>\n

Here are a few examples by women:<\/p>\n

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Hazel Dickens \/ The Rebel Girl<\/div><\/div>
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