Two Sisters Struggles

Ann Wilson and her Sister Nancy were born to their mother Lou, a concert pianist and choir singer, and their father John, a former marine and musician. Due to their father’s job, they moved around frequently. They lived near American military facilities before settling in Seattle. To keep the feeling of home where ever they were they would always listen to music. “On Sunday we’d have pancakes and opera,” “My dad would be conducting in the living room. We’d turn it way up and rock,” (Nancy Wilson) In the spring of 1963 Ann fell sick with mononucleosis and had to miss three months of school. To keep Ann entertained, her mother bought her a guitar. Ann never took to the guitar, but it was Nancy who took over the instrument. Even though Nancy became the guitar player in the family, Ann showed great talent as a singer.

During the six years that Aretha worked with Columbia Records, she only had one famous pop song, “Rock-a-bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody”. She did, however, record several original songs during this time period, such as “Land of Dreams” and “I Still Can’t Forget”. She also released an album in memory of her friend Dinah Washington who passed away, and a cover of “Try a Little Tenderness”. In 1966, after six years of working for Columbia, Aretha signed a contract with Atlantic. While working with Atlantic, Franklin released chart-topping singles such as “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You), “Chain of Fools”, and the song that catapulted Aretha’s career, “Respect”.

After they went around and she grew up she slowly formed a serious band which her family was incredibly happy about. Her

Anne Marie Hochhalter used to be a self-described "band dork." She spent most of her time playing clarinet in Columbine High School's marching band and wind symphony, and—because she was shy—Anne Marie didn't stray far beyond the band's practice room when making friends. Part of Anne Marie's shyness stemmed from her self-consciousness. She loathed the ugly glasses, braces, and lanky build she still sported as a high school upperclassman.

At my school, I am one of two women in the jazz program. In high school, I went to Birch Creek: one of the finest summer jazz academies in the country. In attendance, there were four girls and forty-eight boys. Even though I was outnumbered at the camp, I returned there three consecutive years, once earning their most-improved student award. In total, I attended twelve summer music camps between seventh grade and my enrollment at Northern Illinois University. Unfortunately, the boys always greatly outnumbered the girls. The jazz music scene in particular is male-dominated, and women need to fight for their place on stage. As a woman in jazz, I have, among others, been viewed as an outsider, a lesser musician, and an object. Women in jazz should feel welcome in this industry without facing discrimination.

Let's begin with what kind of impact they had on the Country. In the 60’s (and still now) people saw artists as people to look up to and who to turn for when major things were happening in their life. It is no surprise that the Beatles were one of those bands/artists. “They were someone that I grew up with, they had always been there for me through thick and thin even though I didn’t know them personally” Rolling Stone. They were something that the world would never expect from a band. They were different but in a good way that people could love and follow them. “The Beatles were, something, something that no one had ever seen but that was why we loved them so much because that is what made them different” Rolling Stone. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, let's move onto the next matter.

They really started to gain real recognition with their first it on the radio station in 1962 called “love me do”. The beetles impact on society was a shock and sudden, the beetles soon became a house hold name and was far more popular than anyone would have guess they . The beetles broke up for varies reasons in the 1970's. They had a very unique and creative song writing style which put them levels above the other musicians during the 1965 1970 era. They had a unique creativity in song writing style that was unpredictable and kept them different from any other bands during there time. The beetles music was very influential to the people of their generation. Their music impacted the way people thought and acted and to this day their music still has the same effect on people of our generation. They helped there fans look at life in a way that was a very unique way of thinking that helped expand peoples minds during a difficult time. One song that stands out to me is “Revolution” from the white album released in 1968. Revolution like many other songs from the white album were very opinionated and could even be viewed as songs of protest. which was made in When analyzing the song “revolution” you can tell obviously that is a protest song. “Revolution” was a song off there album known as the “white album. These songs were very popular during this time period because of the war Vietnam war where a lot of

In the story of reservation blues by sherman alexie the opening chapter starts off with the literary device of foreshadowing. “ In the one hundred and eleven years since the creation of the spokane indian reservation in 1881, not one person, indian or otherwise, had arrived there by accident. Wellpinit, the only town the reservation, did not exist on most maps, so the black stranger surprised the whole tribe when he appeared with nothing more than the suit he wore and guitar slung over his back.” The opening scene in this chapter gave me the feel of an mystical spooky setting. This lead me to believe that this character “ Robert Johnson” would have a big part in this story.

In the late 1950s and early 60s, one style of music that began to dominate the American music charts and permeate youth culture of that day came from the “girl groups.” Comprised mostly of three-to-four young females, typically teenagers themselves, the girl groups of the late 1950s through the mid-1960s were mostly African American, though some white groups scored hits, too. They were named The Crystals, The Shirelles, The Ronettes, and more. A few lone performers with and without female backup, also carried the “girl group” sound, and were considered a part this

I have a very wide variety of taste in music. I enjoy listening to many artists that play drastically different styles and genres of music. Although, one of my all time favorite musicians is the one and only Stephanie Lynn Nicks, better known as “Stevie”. She was born on May 26th, 1948 in Phoenix, Arizona. Her grandfather, A.J. Nicks, was the first person who influenced her to begin singing. During her adolescence she did some soul searching and truly found her place in the musical world. She received her first guitar at age of sixteen. During her senior year of high school she met Lindsey Buckingham, and they immediately formed a connection that would lead to a romantic relationship. Together they played in a band called “Fritz.” This band opened for several famous musicians; such as, Jimi Hendrix

“I wanted to have a band that was like a gang. I wanted us to be a real, wild, fast, punk rock, country band with girl group harmonies,” she says. Though she worked out the everything in her mind, this was, of course, in the days before the Internet—in other words, a bit of legwork was necessary to find other musicians, considering that female instrumentalists were thought of as a novelty at the time, especially drummers. She knew of one girl who could play, but they were constantly at odds with one another. Diane “Boom Boom” Dixon, was playing with the Keith Joe Dick band at the time. “We hated each other. I would see her get thrown out of clubs and think, who the hell is this girl?” she

When we think of rock music, we typically think of musicians like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, and similar artists. There’s no problem with that. They all influenced this genre alot and inspired many other artists, but sadly, we never think of the many women that shaped this music scene. Women like Janis Joplin, Joan Jett, Karen Carpenter, and many others. So, who were these musicians and how did they influence the genre?

The arrival of females brought feminist activism the campus had never seen because it had never needed to see in the past. Protests were held outside of Mory’s as membership to Mory’s was still limited to the male students and affiliates, students fought for childcare services for faculty and students, and they fought for underrepresented workers as well as other countless causes. Groups such as Sisterhood in 1970 began to meet and mobilize by forming, for example, rock bands (Celebrating Women). Groups such as a female Russian Chorus and the New Blue separated to create spaces for females and their voice, “’what was most new to Yale College at the time’” (Donadio). These accounts speak to the artistic and expressive changes to the soundscape. The female voice was shaping the musical aspects of the landscape, where “the groups of three-piece suited, freshly scrubbed, immaculately groomed young men” were being replaced. Early footage inside Mory’s from recruitment videos shows this with low-fi audio of out-of-tune male voices singing; prose in Celebrating Women describes the majesty of a cappella female groups (Celebrating

So far we've just scratched the surface of Christine and the Queens. There are plenty more wild facts to know about the group so without further adieu, let's continue.

During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s there was a decline in the rock industry. Girl Groups, Teen idols, and Folk music, all attempted to become America’s new top musical genre. Girls Groups were groups of female singers that managed to crossover into different charts due to their mostly African-American singers and elements of pop, and rhythm and blues in their songs. Teen Idols were just that, young famous people that had a large fan base mostly comprised of teenagers. Due to their musical talents and visual appeal they were extremely popular among both males and females and quickly rose to the top of the charts. Folk Music was a genre that was popular and political. Many of the groups had left-wing political views and were quite open about