Dingmin Lin
Times New Roman
318 Words
March/06/2014
Gender
influences in 1960s music
Singers often use music as
social media tool to express their feeling and thinking. In 1960s, one of the
biggest movement is the woman right movement. At this time, woman have same
equal right as man does and not just follow the tradition path: to marry in her
early 20s, start a family quickly, and devote her rest of her life in to house
making. Therefore, in many famous song in 1960s is about how woman desire to have
their own freedom and equal right.
In some famous song like “Respect”
by Aretha Franklin and “You don’t own me” by Lesley Gores. From those songs
have same one common that woman’s rebellious to have their esteem from their
man. In the “Respect” by Aretha Franklin, she raised her voice when she singed:
“sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me…….” This shows that
she is a very confident woman, who knows that she has everything man wants, and
demand his “respect” to her. She want man and woman can be treat it equally and
woman can be better than man. In another song “You don’t own me” by Lesley Gores,
In her song’s lyrics wrote that “ I am free and I love to be free, to live my
life the way I want, to say and do whatever I please, and don’t tell me what to
do……..” she is very young girl when she published this song out, she try to
tell all girls that they can do whatever they want to do and they should not be
control by man. This song also inspirit woman to fight for their freedom and
played a big factor in the rise of second woman movement.
Below
are the link from the youtube:
(Respect)
(You
don’t own me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWCMhL5qxlE
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