The Dixie Chicks Analysis

The Weavers and The Dixie Chicks were both wildly popular and commercially successful.
The Weavers continued to have some, though dwindling, success in the wake of their denouncement. The Dixie Chicks were pulled from some radio stations immediately.
The Weavers carefully did not use their privilege as public figures as a platform to discuss politics; Dixie Chicks did.
The Weavers and The Dixie Chicks both never saw a number one song again.
And for both, the band’s trajectory was abruptly aborted.
Although the members of The Dixie Chicks and the members of the The Weavers did produce more music, neither were really mainstream again.
I would propose that the making of music, commercial or otherwise, is an inherently communicative act. For the communication to be effective, …show more content…
I think I would start with the suggestion that for anything to be intensely emotional when the audience is so large, it would have to reveal a universally felt emotion that each listener believes is privately held, and which perhaps even the artist believed was privately held. Do I think that an artist could have so strong an emotional experience while making the art that it is, well, palpable to the listener? No, I doubt that. That strikes me as mere showmanship. I think, with no small sense of embarrassment, of Michael Jackson singing a song in my childhood that was ostensibly about his love for Kristy McNichol (don’t ask me why I believed that; I was ten years old); his voice cracked at the end of the recording as though he were weeping, and oh how heartbroken I was! But now, last week, I listened to Rickie Lee Jones singing Last Chance Texaco, and her wailing choked me with fear and loss. I can’t tell you for sure that it’s any different, that Jackson was an especially gifted actor while Rickie Lee Jones was conveying raw emotion. She is certainly more an acquired

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