a little something about Fever

In the Fever by Tim Riley mentions how rock n' roll transformed gender in America. "The evolution of Tina Turner's image over a half-century reflects the way men have traditionally cast women in pop, and prefigures women's defiant response in the sixties and afterward. Her role fronting the Ike and Tina Turner Revenue typified the plight of women acts: she was managed by a male producer who told her how to dress, fed her songs written by male show-biz impresarios and arrangers" (Riley, p.52). I find this quotation/paragraph very interesting because I never knew that women taking a lead role started from Tina Turner. I never knew that Tina Turner really did anything to change the way pop culture viewed women. It is amazing to find out the fact that Tina Turner surfaced around the time when discrimination was still going on and she managed to come out on top even though she was African American. Thanks to Tina, men and women are viewed equally when it comes to talent.