Music and interpersonal communication: An in-depth view of Ani DiFranco, 1996
This study divides DiFranco's song lyrics into three categories of folk music, more specifically, message, protest, and propaganda songs which provide her audience with an ideology to which her fans can relate.
That’s the way I groove: Repetition and meaning in Ani Difranco’s "Evolve," 2003
This thesis examines three songs from her 2003 album Evolve, "Evolve", "In the Way", and "Slide", which incorporate Difranco's musical idiom of voice and guitar as well as a more expanded instrumentation of lead and backing vocals with a seven-piece band.
Dilating on life : Ani Difranco’s musical structuring of subjectivity and pleasure in "Dilate," 1993
For fans of guitarist-singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, the identification with a subjective reality experienced in her music is powerful and pleasurable enough to inspire them with ardent devotion.