The result is a montage of J. Lo and her entourage acting the all-too familiar role male artists play in music videos: dancing on yachts, surrounded by beautiful, half-naked bodies. On this list of feminist rappers from 2017, she's a triple threat. As an industry, K-pop regularly faces issues regarding its characterization, and fetishism, of women. It's easy to ignore if you look away, but sexism is … Maddie & Tae – “Girl In a Country Song” The Black Feminist Movement through Music By Maya Cade @mayascade Apr 12, 2015 The Black Feminist Movement — as we know it today — grew and was founded upon black women’s criticisms of popularized movements such as The Black Power/Liberation Movement and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. need for further intersections between feminist theory and women’s everyday realities. However, when I started to make this list I tried to confine myself to songs released in the past three years and to artists who strictly identify as "pop". It is difficult to pinpoint when awareness and questions coalesced into the Feminist Art Movement. I didn't have enough songs to make a list, so I guess recording companies and pop singers don't think feminist … The songs are by artists whose major musical contributions came on or after Jan. 1, 2000, and have shifted attitudes, defied categories and pushed sound in … Women have enhanced country music and have developed the genre into what it is today, so I believe that these women deserve some recognition. Just like many other realms of culture, the contemporary art scene is a greatly male dominated area. I have developed a random list of a few country songs that I believe have made a significant contribution to spreading the idea of feminism in country music. In 1969, the New York group Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) split off from the Art Workers’ Coalition (AWC) because the AWC was male-dominated and would not protest on behalf of women artists. _____ Music molded the sexual image of women through male oriented music. Though sexism is ubiquitous in the music industry, so too are powerful feminist musicians — male and female. This time however, it’s the women that get to be the stars as scantily clad men lie around in awe of the pop-star and her crew. Today, we are trying to correct this by recognizing the work of ten female artists who are constantly breaking new ground with their work.. What follows is our look at the work of contemporary female artists whose diversity of practices and contributions to the avant-garde movements of our … Now, popular female artists are perhaps doing more damage in regard to sexualizing and objectifying women than male artists ever did. Feminist artists often embraced alternative materials that were connected to the female gender to create their work, such as textiles, or other media previously little used by men such as performance and video, which did not have the same historically male-dominated precedent that painting and sculpture carried. This past year saw FM Supreme focusing more on discussing social issues than creating new music material—she was a strong advocate for Hillary Clinton's presidential run—but her previously recorded songs reflect her fighting spirit.