Narrative, vocal staging and masculinity in the ‘Outlaw’ country music of Waylon Jennings

Popular Music ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis D. Stimeling
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Recorded Sound ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Movement Building

AbstractEmerging in the early 1970s, the work of Outlaw country artists might be heard as exploring a crisis of masculinity resulting from developments in the women's liberation movement. Building on recent research in recorded sound studies, this essay explores how the vocal staging practices deployed in Outlaw country recordings offer a unique musical exploration of the duality of the outlaw's masculinity. Using case studies drawn from Waylon Jennings' Outlaw-era recordings, this article examines how Jennings, working with co-producers ‘Cowboy’ Jack Clement, Chips Moman and Willie Nelson, among others, deployed vocal staging practices in conjunction with other musical practices to construct narratives that reveal the ‘outlaw’ character's psychological turmoil and reflect the complicated state of working-class American masculinity in the age of women's liberation.

A Feminist Way to Unconditional Basic Income: Claimants Unions and Women’s Liberation Movements in 1970s Britain

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Yamamori
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Majority Vote ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Working Class Women

AbstractThis article explores how the demand for an unconditional basic income (UBI) was discussed in the British Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in the 1970s. A resolution for UBI was passed with a majority vote at the National Women’s Liberation Conference in 1977. However, this fact appears not to have been properly recorded in any academic literature. This is slightly surprising because it has been more than a decade since feminist academics started to argue either for or against UBI. The resolution was raised by working class women in the Claimants Unions Movement. This article records and analyses their feminist articulation of the UBI and the unfortunate fate of their resolution along with their intersections with other feminists. It is based mainly on oral historical interviews with ex-claimants women (128).

‘Look at Me’, I’m femininity: The female persona in 1970s musical theatre

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Lampe
Keyword(s):  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Betty Friedan ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Female Image

As the Women’s Liberation Movement developed in the 1970s, women challenged society’s limited female representation as either the Madonna or the whore. Musicals in the 1970s, including Grease (1972), Chicago (1975) and Evita (1979), complicated the female image through the juxtaposition of feminine stereotypes in the heroine’s persona. With each of the shows centralizing the plot around analysing the contradictory feminine image, the women perform in both public and private settings, along with other characters critiquing their personas. From feminist protesters to the writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, Sandy, Roxie and Eva reflect the requests of contemporary women to display their gender as something beyond the perceived dichotomy of Madonna or whore in their music performances.

scholarly journals 'Every generation has to make its own women's movement'

Soundings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (77) ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Sheila Rowbotham ◽  
Jo Littler
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation Movement

In this interview Sheila Rowbotham talks to Jo Littler about her involvement in feminism and politics over several decades. This ranges across her role in the Women's Liberation Movement, left activism, historical scholarship, work with in the Greater London Council (GLC), involvement in the international homeworking movement and her secret life as a poet.

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