Against Strong Odds: An Overview of Women in Music (1920-2016)

by Jim McGuinness | Mar 23, 2016 | Arts & Culture, Creative Nonfiction, Music | 1

The Twenties, Thirties, and Forties
(Pictured: Billie Holiday)

The Fifties
(Pictured: Ella Fitzgerald)

The Sixties
(Pictured: Aretha Franklin)

The Seventies
(Pictured: Emmylou Harris)

The Eighties and Nineties
(Pictured: Chrissie Hynde and Joan Jett)

2000-2016
(Pictured: Brandi Carlile)

About The Author

Jim McGuinness

Jim McGuinness has written about music for The Record in North Jersey as well as the Kingsport Times News in Northeast Tennessee, where he won awards for his “Music Guy” column. He is a proud alumnus of WRNU, the student-run radio station at Rutgers-Newark, and has also done other work as a disc jockey. He lives in the mountains of Southwest Virginia with his wife, Anne, and their throng of dogs, just a stone’s throw down the road from the Carter Family Fold (an old-time music venue run by descendants of the original Carter Family).