Rebroadcast: Sexism and the role of women in country music
The This Is Nashville team is off for July 4. We’re rebroadcasting an episode about women and country music, which originally aired on May 16.
As the 1990s came to a close, country music’s biggest stars were women — Shania Twain, Faith Hill and the Chicks ruled the charts.
Fast forward to 2021, and it’s “bro country” as far as the eye can see. Women are often the subjects of songs — wearing short shorts as they climb into pickup trucks. Women appear in as few as 10 percent of the songs on country radio. How did we get here? And how have women found ways to fight back and find paths for…
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