Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunities available to them through the Foundation to shape the discourse on race at Harvard. Based on our conversations and observations in the past four years at Harvard, we feel that students often perceive the Foundation as a limited, and primarily cultural, instrument of the University that puts on "song-and-dance" cultural shows and invites high-profile speakers to campus, but does little to foster day-to-day relations and social interactions between students of different backgrounds...
...posters she finds "obviously contrary to the idea of women's liberation and female empowerment." What Cobelli fails to acknowledge--no doubt because she preemptively decided the show could have no value--was that 16 women performers worked for months to create an entertaining showcase of song and dance, the first show of its kind to be performed at Harvard. This achievement in itself is something I am not alone in considering to be a strong testament to the progress of "women's liberation and female empowerment...
...songwriters don't stop at that song. The liner notes of the Brooks and Dunn greatest hits album tell the story of two cowboys on the trail, who meet up with a woman who not only shoots better than they do, she knows how to get to the next town when her companions don't. But her capability and brains don't detract one bit from her red-haired beauty...
...when I turn on my radio, I'm freed of the guilt I had when I was a rock listener enjoying the beat but realizing that most of the music out there, especially by male artists, stereotypes and objectifies women. (Anyone think the Barbie song was a positive portrayal of women?)Instead I hear about the glories of strong, intelligent women from singers of both genders. Just picturing millions of other country music fans enjoying songs about these women is enough to send me racing to anywhere where people do the two-step...
...stopped listening to country music in high school, telling my best friend that when I heard one--just one--feminist country music song, I would come back to country. It was a woman who produced that first song a few years ago. But it's the men who turned me from a country listener to a country fan, and it's the men who make me think I want my sons and daughters to grow up in a community of country fans...