"It seems to me that that image was created for female folk singers because they actually had a lot more control than other women in the music scene…They wrote their own songs, they played them, they performed by themselves — there you have a picture of a very independent person, and trying to make them seem emotional and fragile and all puts a softer edge on it. As if there was something wrong with being independent."
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Singer-songwriters from the United StatesGuitarists from the United StatesWomen guitaristsAfrican-American feministsWomen singers from the United States
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On how she views herself in the female singer-songwriter genre in “Tracy Chapman: On Her Own Terms” in Rolling Stone (1988 Sept 22)
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