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10 - ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’: Women in Songwriting

from Part II - Women in Popular Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

By
Katherine Williams
Edited by
Laura Hamer
Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Summary

In Chapter 10, Katherine Williams consider female songwriters, focusing upon singer-songwriters who write and perform their own material, as opposed to songwriters who compose material for other artists. Concentrating upon four case studies, Williams interrogates the music of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Adele.

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women songwriterssinger-songwritersCarole KingJoni MitchellKate BushAdele
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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 145 - 162
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Covach, John and Flory, Andy. What’s That Sound? An Introduction to Popular Music and Its History, 3rd ed. (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2012).Google Scholar
O’Brien, Lucy. She-Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Pop, Rock & Soul (London: Penguin Books, 1995).Google Scholar
Williams, Katherine and Williams, Justin A.. The Cambridge Companion to the Singer-Songwriter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).Google Scholar

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