| "Little Boxes" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Pete Seeger | |
| Released | 1963 |
| Songwriter(s) | Malvina Reynolds |
| Official audio | |
| "Little Boxes" on Youtube | |
"Little Boxes" is a song written and composed by Malvina Reynolds in 1962. The song was first released by her friend, Pete Seeger, in 1963, and became his only charting single in January 1964.
The song is a social satire[1][2][3] about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It mocks suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky" and which "all look just the same". "Ticky-tacky" is a reference to the shoddy material supposedly used in the construction of the houses.[4]
- ^ Ingram, David (2010). "Folk". The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960. 97-118: Brill. p. 97.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Bouchard, Jean-Luc (Fall 2023). "Little Boxes". Kenyon Review. 45 (4). 82-96: 87.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Awde, Nick (2013). "Zappa and Satire: From Conceptual Absurdism to the Perversity of Politics". In Carr, Paul (ed.). Frank Zappa and the And. 85-101: Routledge. p. 87.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ "Ticky-tacky". G. & C. Merriam. Retrieved October 20, 2016.