Gender has played a large role in musical performance because women are play great music. They play and perform their instruments. One great musician is Viola Smith. She is a drummer, and is known as the “America's fastest girl drummer”. She started in a band that was directed by her father. She and a group of girls join and played their music. She is really good playing the drums. For her great talent she has been feature in magazines and offered many opportunities. In the beginning of her career, she mentioned how people thought they were not good players because they were girls. She saw the very wrong and she wrote an article in a magazine named “Give Girl Musician a Break”. In that article she argued that women musician were as great as
man musician. That women should be allowed to play in bands to show their talent. During her time, many great big bands were drafted and needed musicians. Viola told them to let girls join their band. She mentioned how good they were. Just because they are girls, don’t make them bad musicians. Due to gender, girls were not offered many jobs and were looked as terrible musicians. Girls were treated unequally. After Viola move to New York, she played in orchestras and bands. There she was able to show her talent. By people watching how great girls played they were allowed to play in orchestras. People could see what great musicians they were and that they have talent. Viola was really good she even played in Harry Truman inauguration in 1949. She join other great musicians that were male. Viola Smith work and all of the girl musicians have shown that girls can be great musicians as men. Just because they are girl, it don’t make them untalented. Girl should be treated equally in the music industry,
There are many “first frontiers” for women. There has been the first female doctor, mathematician, astronaut, scientist, and nobel prize winner. The first female novelist, CEO, Senator, Supreme Court Justice, and PhD. Each of these women have changed the way females are perceived around the world, and have paved the way for women in each of their fields. In her essay “One of the Girls” Leslie Heywood explores the idea that the first female athletes are just as important as these other “first” women.
Pleasantville is a film set around two teenagers who happen to fall into the predictable 1950s’ black and white sitcom, Pleasantville. The show represents a very stereotypical image of what American culture was known for in the 50s’, in regards to gender roles, segregation of races, and basic societal standards. With a society, so bland, David and Jennifer bring along their personalities that influence new ideas and innovation, keenness for knowledge and most importantly a display of freedom. As the citizens of Pleasantville became exposed to new experiences and opportunities, an eruption of “intense” emotions took over the town, which led to the outburst of the symbol of colour. These abrupt changes to the society’s norms highlight the uneasiness
This is a small biography about the popular Dutch professional alto sax player Candy Dulfer. She is more of a modern professional alto sax player that started playing around 1974, and plays smooth jazz and funk. Unlike T.K. Blue she had more of a natural talent and didn’t go to a music school. She has really strong pipes and plays the alto saxophone loud and proud. When listening to her music I thought she would be another great example of pushing the limits, the alto saxophone has no limits. You would never think of the alto saxophone playing any other types of music other than jazz, but it all depends on the passion and determination. Especially when you see a woman that’s playing the musical instrument. Most people think that the alto saxophone is a man’s instrument; when I was in a school band there were only me and on other female alto saxophone player out of the eight of us. There are a handful of good professional alto sax players that are women. She could give younger women inspiration and beliefs that they can do anything. She proves that there is more than just a pretty fac...
I did my paper on the movie Pleasantville. This is about a brother and sister who get trapped inside the 50’s television show, Pleasantville. The movie starts off in color until they get to Pleasantville where their world suddenly turns to black and white. Pleasantville is a perfect society where husbands come home to a beautiful wife and children and a home cooked meal ready on the table, and everything and everyone works together to make the community a perfectly functioning society. When the siblings, David and Jennifer, become part of Pleasantville’s perfect society they immediately have a strong influence that changes it substantially. As the people of Pleasantville start breaking their community’s norms, color starts to appear
Clara Schumann’s small creative output in the area of composition can be likened unto today’s small input of only14% of the PRS for Music Foundation's (the Performing Rights Society of composers, songwriters and music publishers) members being female in that, it may be a direct result of the negative attitudes of society and how it views women in this
about marriage that our society assumes to be true today. These include ideas about single
Most girls were already adequate musicians, as they were taught music since a young age, and playing in the school's marching band, but Jones had set a higher ramp for the sweethearts. They were taught the art of playing in a big band, and soon had concert dates in the area, playing high school dances in gymnasiums and dance halls.
One form of art which is predominant in The Awakening is piano playing. Piano playing symbolizes a woman’s role in society. In Edna’s society, artistic skill, such as piano playing and sketching, were accomplishments which ladies acquired. They were merely enhancements to their education, not possibilities for occupation. Women artists, whether they were musicians, painters, or writers, had a difficult time being accepted in society (Dyer 86). Kate Chopin presents two women who are foils to Edna: Madame Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz (Koloski 117). Both of these women play the piano; however, their purpose and motivations are vastly different. The way in which they view their piano playing reflects their values.
Annie Lenox through her performances and music videos evoked the use of “gender-bending”. Lennox was one of the first performers who employed this strategy. By doing this Lennox showed that we could view women in different ways unlike the identity assigned for them by the media and society. The Eurythmics used their videos as a tool for performing gender roles, stereotypes by evoking the use of drag through camp.
This fieldwork aims to sociologically analyze gender roles and expectations within the movie White Chicks. In this film brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, play the role of two black FBI agents looking to get back into good graces with their superior after they accidentally ruined a drug bust. They are assigned to escort two rich white females, Brittney and Tiffany Wilson, to the Hamptons for Labor Day festivities. While traveling they experience a minor car accident, leaving the girls with a single scratch each on their face. Because of their socialite status, the sisters no longer wish to continue their trip in fear of humiliation. The agents fear losing their chance of redemption, so they decide to disguise
...field women had that power is in domestic arts. Women admire sharing their talents with an audience in different ways, whether it is theater, performing a song, ballet dancing, conducting an orchestra or being on television. Eileen Marie Moore shows discipline, excellence and success in her all-age field today. Amy Beach was the first woman to compose a symphony and Clara Schumann was the first woman be publicly accepted as a woman musician. These women opened doors for aspiring and existing women composers and performers to gain recognition, regardless of the culture. A tribute for Amy Beach, Michael Anthony quoted “Being a woman hadn’t held her back as a musician.” The confidence these women portrayed for music was tremendous. Determined to succeed in male dominance category is a challenge, but having the resilience and purpose to keep going, is what counts.
With women often discouraged from playing brass instruments, Helen Butler and her band processed for women’s musical choice. In 1891, a small all women’s brass band emerged in Providence, Rhode Island. The band eventually grew to become a twenty-piece band and by 1901 they were so successful they had a sponsor and business manager. The band travelled all over to perform and even performed at a serval World’s Fairs. Helen Butler and the Ladies Military Band became notionally recognized, which was very rare because they were one of the few all-female bands. The women of this band paved the way for women to be integrated into all-male bands and freedom to choice their own instruments.
Though many doors have been opened there are many that have remained shut. For instance, the way that many labels choose to market female artists like sex symbols instead of relying on their ability to perform. A women musician are becoming more and more visible, and with this visibility comes power. Ani DiFranco and Madonna are just two examples of women who are starting their own record labels and signing their own bands. By doing this they are insuring that female artists get heard. Obviously, not every women musician can have this kind of determination, but the fact that they are on stage playing what they love, music, makes them powerful.
The novel Sister Carrie seems to be the platform from which Dreiser explores his unconventional views of the genders. In the world of Sister Carrie, it would seem that the role of women as trusting, caring creatures, and men as scheming victimizers is reversed; it is Carrie that uses the men around her to get what she wants, and it is those men who are victimized by her. Thus Dreiser uses this novel as a means of questioning the popular notions of gender and the role that it plays in modern society.
What was the typical role for a woman during the Elizabethan times? What was the typical role the woman played in Shakespeare’s plays? Shakespeare was a one of the greatest writers during the Elizabethan times who wrote many plays and other works. How were women’s life in Elizabethan times and how did Shakespeare portray women in his plays?