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Militarism Expressed Through Popular Music

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Sadie Hui DOC 3 TA: Luis Cortes; Section A17 01 May 2017 The Effect of Militarism Expressed Through Popular Music The United States’ history has been plagued with multiple wars and conflicts, including the American Civil War, both World War I and II, the Korean and Vietnam War, and many more, that have influenced and shaped American society. The song “Youngstown” by Bruce Springsteen describes the rise and fall of Youngstown, Ohio, from the discovery of the iron ore in 1803 to the decline of the steel industry due to globalization. The city of Youngstown, which played a significant role in the wars, was known as an industrial town that produced steel used to manufacture weaponry, such as cannon balls, bombs, and tanks, for the wars. This song, …show more content…

Gender formation, a term created by Judith Lorber, is “the system of gendered relations and ideologies in a specific historical period,” or in other words, the process in which society forms gender roles and identities during a specific period of time (DOC 1 Reader, 89). During World War II, a time of crisis and emergency, while males were drafted into the military and shipped overseas, women were hired to fill the holes in the workforce left by the men, especially in the industrial labor force, such as manufacturing and production. Once the war was over, however, the women were fired in order to open up work for the returning veterans, emphasizing the continual presence of the dominant ideology of patriarchy. This emphasizes the gender hierarchy that exists because of the presence of the dominant ideology of patriarchy in which males are regarded as the source of income, further reinforcing the issue of gender discrimination in society. In the song, the name “Jenny” refers to the blast furnace in one of steel mills in Youngstown rather than a person (Line 11). The gendering of the inanimate object emphasizes society’s gendered view of women, in which they are tools used to make a man’s life easier instead of a person of equal significance. In addition to the presence of a gender hierarchy, a patriarchal society also accentuates the importance of “power over,” in which a person of higher status or class can control and manipulate those of lower status and class (DOC 2 Reader,

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