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.

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.

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.

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