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<\/a>This is really just a fancy way of saying that we\u2019ll be listening to music by some fierce women.<\/p>\nI did a show like this before I started blogging on the KJHK website, so I never had a chance to explain why I chose such a theme. It\u2019s simple really. It ends up that most of the music in my collection is recorded by men. Not for any particular reason. And I don\u2019t have some bias either. It just happens that I buy music performed by men or male groups. But this week, it\u2019s time for the ladies to shine.<\/p>\n
I think it\u2019s really fascinating how women in music have evolved ever since the 1950s. Their music back then was sugary sweet, speaking of love or longing or longing to be loved or losing love\u2026 It\u2019s all very \u201cJohnny, why don\u2019t you love me?\u201d Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love it! I eat that stuff up. It\u2019s so sappy and cutesy and sometimes, it feels good to listen to silly music. But once the 1960s came around and soul took over, we get a whole new brand of female. Powerful women who instead start singing about how the lover who jilted them is going to get his, or how some man isn\u2019t going to get her down. It\u2019s such a drastic shift into female empowerment and I think it really mirrors the times in which this music was produced.<\/p>\n
So for my next show, I\u2019ll be doing an exploration of women\u2019s music. You can expect to hear classic ladies of the 1950s like Connie Francis, The Poni-Tails. We\u2019ll move to the 1960s and hear from Petula Clark, Lesley Gore, The Shangri-Las. We\u2019ll take a look at Motown and soul and get a visit from Diana Ross and the Supremes, Etta James, Alpha Zoe, Ruth Brown. And we\u2019ll go into the 1970s with disco greats like Donna Summer and the ever-feisty Miss Jean Knight. It promises to be a powerful show.<\/p>\n
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