{"id":5797,"date":"2022-03-15T12:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T22:01:54","slug":"soft-power-ella-fitzgerald-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/soft-power-ella-fitzgerald-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog: Soft Power, Ella Fitzgerald, and Women\u2019s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to this article<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"\u201cMy dad can\u2019t find out I\u2019m lending this to you.\u201d\u00a0 My friend slips a record out of her father\u2019s cabinet and hands it to me, cradling it in both hands like a velvet pillow upon which some priceless jewel might sit. I figure I should respond in kind and take it in both hands, so I do. It\u2019s heavier than any record I\u2019ve held before \u2014 a double LP with a thick booklet. On the cover, a gorgeous woman in a black turtleneck is holding sheet music, mid-note, giving side-eye to someone not pictured. I take it home, set the first record onto my parents\u2019 player, and drop the needle. Within thirty seconds, that voice is toying with an assemblage of horns, and I\u2019m on the first of a thousand plays of \u201cElla Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Volumes 1 & 2.\u201d I am twelve years old. This isn\u2019t my introduction to jazz. My mum has been playing it for me forever. It probably isn\u2019t even the first time I\u2019ve heard Ella Fitzgerald because my jazz-musician granddad mailed us mixtapes that I wore out.\u00a0 But it is the first time I\u2019ve sat with her, listened to only her, seen her face, and really taken a moment to drink her in. By track three \u2013 \u201cMiss Otis Regrets\u201d \u2013 I slide the LP out of its cloudy plastic sleeve to get a better look at her.\u00a0 My parents had quite a few records, and the women singers pictured on them were usually smiling, shapely, dolled up, a little blank-eyed, or snapped singing, or broodily emoting. But the look on Ella\u2019s face. The black turtleneck. The mischievous side-eye. There is something else going on here. (If you don\u2019t know the LP cover I\u2019m talking about, go right now and Google it.) Later, I find out there are plenty of side-eye-slinging early women performers. Later, I see Judy Garland dressed as a clown, hear Bessie Smith singing about gin, and discover a hundred more examples of women who stood out because they didn\u2019t fit in. But at this point, it\u2019s the early days, and here\u2019s this woman singing about birds doing it, bees doing it, even educated fleas doing it (long before I\u2019m clear on what \u201cdoing it\u201d entails), and somehow she manages to sing these hyper-sexualized lyrics without becoming sexualized herself. If anything, she sounds knowingly bemused by the whole idea. I\u2019m not able to connect these dots back then, of course \u2014 still, something shakes loose in my prepubescent mind. Over the years, as I\u2019ve listened to hundreds of her recordings and read more about her life, I\u2019ve figured out what Ella Fitzgerald means to me. The vocal precision, sure. Her timing is insane. And she loved songs. As someone who championed composers and their songbooks, Ella Fitzgerald became an ambassador for tunes that tell a story: lyrics that mean something, the universal truths that tug, no matter how old a song may be.\u00a0 This year, we\u2019re celebrating what would have been Ella\u2019s 100th birthday. By all accounts, hers was a life devoid of drugs, alcohol, and public meltdowns. From what we think we know, she had her own demons, but not in the way Billie Holiday or Frank Sinatra had theirs, constantly haunted and hunted. She\u2019s one of the reasons I don\u2019t believe that old trope that you need to be a tortured, hot mess of a human to create great art. But more than all of that, Ella singing is pure joy. The idea of \u201cplaying\u201d music \u2013 playing like it\u2019s a game \u2013 feels more true with some musicians than with others, and even in moodier numbers, she was always playing: with notes, with time, with emotions, but subtly and subversively, like she knew instinctively not to lead with it. And that joy is what makes Ella Fitzgerald a one-person masterclass in soft power.\u00a0 Listening to Billie Holiday or Judy Garland, I hear raw vulnerability: souls exorcizing their demons. And vulnerability is its own gift, to be sure. But Ella\u2019s gift is something else. It\u2019s the gift of knowing your stuff and having fun with it, whether people approve or not. Not needing approval is maybe the ultimate power move, especially for women. It didn\u2019t surprise me one bit to learn that, as the singer for Chick Webb\u2019s orchestra at the time of his death, Ella took over and fronted the (as far as I know, all-male) band for nearly 3 years, in 1939, when she was only 23 years old.\u00a0 Pause and let\u2019s think about that for a minute \u2013 about what it probably took to ringlead a dozen or so men as an upstart lady singer, barely two decades after women got the vote. This isn\u2019t why Ella Fitzgerald\u2019s important to jazz, and it\\'s not what made her an icon, but it\u2019s key to both.\u00a0 Later, she went on to run her own band, and the rest of her towering career followed. Even though she worked with producers and managers throughout, her voice was her own, and with it, she had plenty to say. So I always go back to Ella, as a musician and as a woman. Even adjusting for the times, being a woman leader in music still requires some fancy footwork in 2022, if you\u2019re going to have a voice.\u00a0 It requires soft power. It requires a little side-eye. Throughout Women\u2019s History Month and beyond, there are millions and millions of women who deserved to be profiled for the greatness they achieved. But this one is from me to Ella. Ella, here\u2019s to you, and here\u2019s to the way you\u2019ve inspired generations of children and adults to find their joy and their power, through music and through so much more. Who are you celebrating this Women\u2019s History Month? Share this article on Linkedin and tag us to let us know which women have inspired your own joy, power, confidence, and excellence.\u00a0 Elizabeth Bougerol is the lead singer and co-band leader of the jazz band, The Hot Sardines.\", \"US English Male\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n     <\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy dad can\u2019t find out I\u2019m lending this to you.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My friend slips a record out of her father\u2019s cabinet and hands it to me, cradling it in both hands like a velvet pillow upon which some priceless jewel might sit. I figure I should respond in kind and take it in both hands, so I do. It\u2019s heavier than any record I\u2019ve held before \u2014 a double LP with a thick booklet. On the cover, a gorgeous woman in a black turtleneck is holding sheet music, mid-note, giving side-eye to someone not pictured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I take it home, set the first record onto my parents\u2019 player, and drop the needle. Within thirty seconds, that voice is toying with an assemblage of horns, and I\u2019m on the first of a thousand plays of \u201cElla Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Volumes 1 &amp; 2.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>I am twelve years old.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This isn\u2019t my introduction to jazz. My mum has been playing it for me forever. It probably isn\u2019t even the first time I\u2019ve heard Ella Fitzgerald because my jazz-musician granddad mailed us mixtapes that I wore out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it is the first time I\u2019ve sat with her, listened to only her, seen her face, and really taken a moment to drink her in. By track three \u2013 \u201cMiss Otis Regrets\u201d \u2013 I slide the LP out of its cloudy plastic sleeve to get a better look at her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My parents had quite a few records, and the women singers pictured on them were usually smiling, shapely, dolled up, a little blank-eyed, or snapped singing, or broodily emoting. But the look on Ella\u2019s face. The black turtleneck. The mischievous side-eye. There is something else going on here. (If you don\u2019t know the LP cover I\u2019m talking about, go right now and Google it.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8878 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-1024x341.png\" alt=\"TDM Library: your one-stop-shop for update, expert DEI Resources. Explore the platform with a free trial. Click here to learn more.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-600x200.png 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-C.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/341;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, I find out there are plenty of side-eye-slinging early women performers. Later, I see Judy Garland dressed as a clown, hear Bessie Smith singing about gin, and discover a hundred more examples of women who stood out because they didn\u2019t fit in. But at this point, it\u2019s the early days, and here\u2019s this woman singing about birds doing it, bees doing it, even educated fleas doing it (long before I\u2019m clear on what \u201cdoing it\u201d entails), and somehow she manages to sing these hyper-sexualized lyrics without becoming sexualized herself. If anything, she sounds knowingly bemused by the whole idea. I\u2019m not able to connect these dots back then, of course \u2014 still, something shakes loose in my prepubescent mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Over the years, as I\u2019ve listened to hundreds of her recordings and read more about her life, I\u2019ve figured out what Ella Fitzgerald means to me.<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5798\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5798\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5798 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ella_Fitzgerald__New_York__ca._Nov._1946_William_P._Gottlieb_02861-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Ella Fitzgerald\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ella_Fitzgerald__New_York__ca._Nov._1946_William_P._Gottlieb_02861-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ella_Fitzgerald__New_York__ca._Nov._1946_William_P._Gottlieb_02861-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ella_Fitzgerald__New_York__ca._Nov._1946_William_P._Gottlieb_02861-600x592.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ella_Fitzgerald__New_York__ca._Nov._1946_William_P._Gottlieb_02861-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Ella_Fitzgerald__New_York__ca._Nov._1946_William_P._Gottlieb_02861.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/296;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ella Fitzgerald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vocal precision, sure. Her timing is insane. And she <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">loved<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> songs. As someone who championed composers and their songbooks, Ella Fitzgerald became an ambassador for tunes that tell a story: lyrics that mean something, the universal truths that tug, no matter how old a song may be.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, we\u2019re celebrating what would have been Ella\u2019s 100th birthday. By all accounts, hers was a life devoid of drugs, alcohol, and public meltdowns. From what we think we know, she had her own demons, but not in the way Billie Holiday or Frank Sinatra had theirs, constantly haunted and hunted. She\u2019s one of the reasons I don\u2019t believe that old trope that you need to be a tortured, hot mess of a human to create great art.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>But more than all of that, Ella singing is pure joy.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea of \u201cplaying\u201d music \u2013 playing like it\u2019s a game \u2013 feels more true with some musicians than with others, and even in moodier numbers, she was always playing: with notes, with time, with emotions, but subtly and subversively, like she knew instinctively not to lead with it. And that joy is what makes Ella Fitzgerald a one-person masterclass in soft power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listening to Billie Holiday or Judy Garland, I hear raw vulnerability: souls exorcizing their demons. And vulnerability is its own gift, to be sure. But Ella\u2019s gift is something else. It\u2019s the gift of knowing your stuff and having fun with it, whether people approve or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Not needing approval is maybe the ultimate power move, especially for women.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It didn\u2019t surprise me one bit to learn that, as the singer for Chick Webb\u2019s orchestra at the time of his death, Ella took over and fronted the (as far as I know, all-male) band for nearly 3 years, in 1939, when she was only 23 years old.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pause and let\u2019s think about that for a minute \u2013 about what it probably took to ringlead a dozen or so men as an upstart lady singer, barely two decades after women got the vote. This isn\u2019t why Ella Fitzgerald\u2019s important to jazz, and it&#8217;s not what made her an icon, but it\u2019s key to both.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, she went on to run her own band, and the rest of her towering career followed. Even though she worked with producers and managers throughout, her voice was her own, and with it, she had plenty to say. So I always go back to Ella, as a musician and as a woman. Even adjusting for the times, being a woman leader in music still requires some fancy footwork in 2022, if you\u2019re going to have a voice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>It requires soft power. It requires a little side-eye.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout Women\u2019s History Month and beyond, there are millions and millions of women who deserved to be profiled for the greatness they achieved. But this one is from me to Ella.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ella, here\u2019s to you, and here\u2019s to the way you\u2019ve inspired generations of children and adults to find their joy and their power, through music and through so much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who are you celebrating this Women\u2019s History Month? Share this article on Linkedin and tag us to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-diversity-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">let us know which women have inspired your own joy, power, confidence, and excellence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8045 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-1024x85.png\" alt=\"Display ad for TDM Library. Text says &quot;Find more content like this in TDM Library. Start my free trial&quot;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"85\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-1024x85.png 1024w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-600x50.png 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-300x25.png 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C-768x64.png 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-C.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/85;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elizabeth Bougerol is the lead singer and co-band leader of the jazz band,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/hotsardines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hot Sardines.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy dad can\u2019t find out I\u2019m lending this to you.\u201d\u00a0 My friend slips a record out of her father\u2019s cabinet and hands it to me, cradling it in both hands15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,109],"tdm_type":[92],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","tag-diversity-holidays","tag-gender","tdm_type-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Guest Blog: Soft Power, Ella Fitzgerald, and Women\u2019s History Month - The Diversity Movement<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Throughout Women\u2019s History Month and beyond, there are millions of women who deserved to be profiled for the greatness they achieved. 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