Assignment task: Women played a crucial role in American music in the 20th century. Empowered to represent the conditions that women experienced more broadly-in relationships, socio-economically, and as artists in the commercial music industry-female artists gave voice to the concerns, aspirations, and the newfound power of women in an era when civil rights were being demanded by women as a part of larger movements of social justice. Tell me how Carol King and Loretta Lynn, music was used to bring awareness to the issues that faced women in the United States in their struggle for equality.