WLRN Music Hour #23: Male Violence Against Women

Playlist: I Believe Her (acoustic and electric guitar) Emma's Revolution Cleanin' Out My Closet Trigger Warning! (Explicit rap) Angel Haze *You can read about this brave sister's story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Haze Casualty in My Own House (acoustic folk) Holly Near Abatina (reggae) Calypso Rose Me and A Gun (acoustic) Tori Amos Caleb Meyer (folk) Gillian Welsh Love is Blind **I chose the 'clean version' because I'm not comfortable (as a white woman) using a song that uses the 'n word' (Rap and Hip Hop) Eve Quarterback (country) Kira Isabella Liar (punk/heavy metal?) Bikini Kill Touch Me Again (Explicit punk/alternative rock) Petrol Girls The Body Electric (Alternative Rock) Hurray for the Riff Raff Closing song: We Will Carry Them Forever in Our Scars(shamanic) Carolyn Hillyer This week's music hour is intense, sisters. The theme in and of itself names an intense reality: male violence. The language/truth telling is brutal because it reflects the true brutality of male violence against women. Each of these female musicians bravely names the male agent of this violence and many of them describe it thru the telling of their stories via lyrics and sound. These stories stretch across the genres: acoustic, rap, punk, heavy metal, reggae, country, shamanic. Take care of yourselves, sisters. And, I hope you can find a way to listen, take the journey these women take us on. The words of Andrea Dworkin will accompany us too thru the rough rapids.