The Suffragette Polka
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:50 am
This week the UK is commemorating the centenary of women's suffrage. Women aged over 30 who met minimum property qualifications became entitled to vote, but it would be another ten years before they achieved the same voting rights as men.
I found this 1913 record at, of all places, a steam traction engine rally. Given that the composer is shown as "LE Femministe", not "LA Femministe", I suspect that his intentions were satirical as the Suffragette movement was widely lampooned at this time.
Phoenix was UK Columbia's budget label, introduced in 1913 to combat the flood of cheap imported records which were creating a price war.
I found this 1913 record at, of all places, a steam traction engine rally. Given that the composer is shown as "LE Femministe", not "LA Femministe", I suspect that his intentions were satirical as the Suffragette movement was widely lampooned at this time.
Phoenix was UK Columbia's budget label, introduced in 1913 to combat the flood of cheap imported records which were creating a price war.