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This is an article in today's New York Times.
>"She was the female Bob Dylan,” Ellen Stekert, a singer, folk music scholar and song collector told me during my research for a book about Ms. Converse. “She was even better than him, as a lyricist and composer, but she didn’t have his showbiz savvy, and she wasn’t interested in writing protest songs.”
>She didn't have his showbiz savvy.
This is an example of how the entire world glazes over the men owned system. Male record executives, male music producers, male DJ's in newly established radio stations, all around male centric support make male success possible while simultaneously holding women back from their true potential.
It's easy to dismiss a woman's work as not "quite" right or the "wrong" time instead of pointing out how men are given a leg up.
When a man fails, it's his own fault. When a woman succeeds, she does so despite male behavior. Don't excuse male failure because the entire planet is rooting for them to win. Who is rooting for you?
women have to work twice as hard for half as much in any industry.
I can't read the article because I'm not subscribed to NYT, but as a musician and someone with a lot of experience and knowledge of the music business, it is extremely rare to find any female musician who did not owe their fame to a man. Not that the women weren't immensely talented on their own, of course, but it was almost always a male producer or exec who helped them rise to stardom--and you won't be surprised the conditions this came with. The music industry has always been a male-dominated field (women weren't even 'allowed' to play guitar) so it's nothing new that Bob Dylan overshadowed this woman.
Good catch. This is some A+ patriarchy blaming. And this - "When a man fails, it's his own fault. When a woman succeeds, she does so despite male behavior." is 100% correct. Never cut men any slack. Assume that any woman is smarter, more talented, harder working, and more worthy than her male peers. She usually is.
Can you give us an archived version of the article? I really wish I could read it! 🙏