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Joni Mitchell
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the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the most
important and influential female recording artist of
the late 20th century. Uncompromising and iconoclastic,
Mitchell confounded expectations at every turn; restlessly
innovative, her music evolved from deeply personal folk
stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even world
music, presaging the multicultural experimentation of
the 1980s and 1990s by over a decade. Fiercely independent,
her work steadfastly resisted the whims of both mainstream
audiences and the male-dominated recording industry
-- while Mitchell's records never sold in the same numbers
enjoyed by contemporaries like Carole King, Janis Joplin,
or Aretha Franklin, none experimented so recklessly
with their artistic identities or so bravely explored
territory outside of the accepted confines of pop music,
resulting in a creative legacy which paved the way for
performers ranging from Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde
to Madonna and Courtney Love. |
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