Susannes Folksong-Notizen
[1967:] If Little Boxes and The red flag are folk songs, we need a new term to describe The outlandish knight, Searching for lambs and The coal-owner and the pitman's wife. (Lloyd, England 385)
[1984:] [This] makes its satirical point so subtly that it is often missed completely and the song is regarded as a pretty children's piece frequently appearing in kiddies' request programmes on the radio. (Notes Spinners, 'Last Night We Had A Do')
[1989:] This somewhat snooty song about identical-looking suburban houses 'made of ticky-tacky', and their identically brainwashed owners, was a favourite with folk audiences and with singers like Pete Seeger [in the mid-Sixties]. (Denselow, Music 67)
[1992:] [Reynolds] made up Little Boxes [in 1961] when she was driving to Palo Alto to sing for the P.T.A. Driving past Dale City south of San Francisco, she looked up at the hill-side, and said to her husband, "Bud, take the wheel. I feel a song coming on." When she got to Palo Alto, she had the song ready to sing. (Seeger, Flowers 107)
[1974:] Malvina Reynolds charakterisiert die amerikanische Gesellschaft, [in der] alle nach einer Form erzogen werden. Zwar unterscheiden sich die Leute äußerlich [...] aber ihre Normen und Werte gleichen sich. (Liederbuch 87)
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