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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Focus on Women Composers: Renaissance through late Baroque, June 5, 1976 (Episode 3) |
The first in a series of four episodes of "Focus on Women Composers" providing a historical survey of various musical periods and styles from the Renaissance to the present. This episode covers women composers from the Renaissance through the late Baroque (1500-1750). Contents: 1. Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (faded down); 2. continuity; 3. selections from La liberazione di Ruggiero, Francesca Caccini; 4. continuity; 5. O Death Rock Me Asleep, Anne Boleyn; 6. continuity; 7. Harpischord Suite No. 2 in G, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre; 8. continuity; 9. selection from Erwin and Elmire, Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar; 10. continuity; 11. Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Presented by April McMahon, Virginia Kosanovic, and Fleur Helsingor. Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilhelmine, Margravine, consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth, 1709-1758, Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536, Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640, Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729, Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1739-1807 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women's history | AZ1132.03 | |
| What's happening to the family? |
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE FAMILY : Produced by WBAI and Dave Metzger. Recorded on January 30 1978. CONTENT: Dave Metzger hosts Rosalind P. Petchesky (b. 1942), a Women's Studies and Political Science professor at Ramapo College, Ellen Ross, a professor of European History and Women's Studies at Ramapo College, and Ruth Meyerowitz, a professor of Women's Studies and Labor History at the University at Hartford, Connecticut as they discuss the current attitudes about the family, particularly as women return to the workforce. Broadcast on January 30, 1978 and August 23, 1978[?]. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Family -- Public opinion., Family -- Social aspects., Sexuality, Women -- Employment., Petchesky, Rosalind P., Ross, Ellen, Meyerowitz, Ruth | American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Parenting and children | IZ0536 | |
| Women in art history: Arlene Raven in conversation with Judy Chicago |
Feminist artist Judy Chicago (b. 1939) talks with Arlene Raven (1944-2006), a feminist art historian in the Feminist Art Program at California Institute of the Arts, about the nature and function of women in the arts. Produced by Teri Friedrichs. |
Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Raven, Arlene., Women artists, Art -- History., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | BC1226 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 2, 1980: WREE Seminar on Racism |
Production reel for the July 2, 1980 episode of the Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains excerpts from the Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) Seminar on Racism- a conference on racial discrimination (1980). First speaker (unnamed) introduces the seminar. Second speaker (unnamed). The second speaker (unnamed, possibly South African), asking for world to enforce U.N. mandate against Apartheid. The third speaker (unnamed) talks about the link between sexism and racism, and the need to commit to eradicating both. Goal of "decade of women" is to end these and militarism and other negative forces. The fourth speaker (unnamed) talks about exploring the effects of racism on minority and white women's employment. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, RACISM, Racism -- Economic aspects., Women for Racial and Economic Equality (Organization), Sex discrimination against women, Race discrimination -- Economic aspects. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions | IZ1510 | |
| Traveling without a camera / Norma Almquist, Barbara Abercrombie, and Jean Nichols interviewed by Claudia Fonda-Bonardi |
Claudia Fonda-Bonardi talks to Norma Almquist, Barbara Abercrombie, and Jeanne Nichols about their book of poetry "Traveling without a camera." The authors speak about the relationship between poem and the experience it comes out of, and their poetry as a unique expression of women's experience. They also read some of the poetry. Produced by Claudia Fonda-Bonardi. Program is self-contained, including music. Outro music ends abruptly. |
Abercrombie, Barbara., Almquist, Norma, Nichols, Jeanne., Women poets, Women's writings., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | KZ0757 | |
| International women's day (1978) music (Part 1 only) |
Aircheck of Morning Music on International Women's Day with Eileen Kane and Manya La Bruja. Features women's music, particularly women classical composers. Station break at :30 on this reel. Part 1 of 2. Part 2 not currently held by Archives. |
International Women's Day, Women's music, Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1368 | |
| Battered women |
Recordings from a conference on battered women sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee in February 1977. The recording includes testimony from battered women as well as historical information on the oppression of women, legal aspects, and ways of overcoming this problem. Produced by Kimberly Willis for WBAI. |
Battered women., Domestic violence, Family violence, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women | IZ1450 | |
| Marriage a la mode (Episode 6 of 12) |
Talk on the social and legal inequalities facing married women by Nancy Reeves, attorney, lecturer and writer on the status of women. Examines the institution of marriage in relation to the opposing philosophies introduced in episode 3. Reeves pontificates on when marriage ceases to be a profession, or a way of making a living, and becomes instead a peer relationship, a creative and symmetrical design for living. |
Women -- Social conditions., Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Marriage and divorce | BB4451.06 | |
| Portrait of an unknown lady: the life and work of Elinor Wylie / with readings by Marian Seldes. |
Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes reads the words of the poetess Elinor Wylie. In this program she is remembered, in the words of friends and associates, tracing her life story, and reflected in her own writings. Members of the cast are Risha Meledandri, Ira Weitzman, Richard Rosenblum, Manya La Bruja, and Judy Sherman. The words of Elinor Wylie were spoken by Marian Seldes, who was appearing in Equus at the Plymouth Theatre at the time of the recording. Announcer is Bruce Kenyon. Produced by WBAI. |
Seldes, Marian., Poetry -- Women authors., Authors, American -- Biography., Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | BC2928 | |
| Sex, sex, sex (Episode 2) |
Dr. Nancy Rosser, a resident psychiatrist at the neuropsychiatric institute at University of California, Los Angeles, speaks of the psychological aspect of being female, intercourse, pregnancy, contraception, sexual orientation, menstruation, menopause and theories of sexuality. Bo Siewert, a representative of the Daughters of Bilitis, also speaks of the problems of discrimination and alienation for the female homosexual. The lecture was recorded April 1970. Announcer is Stephanie Powsner. |
Rosser, Nancy, Women's movement -- United States., Lesbians -- Personal narratives, Gender, sexuality & culture, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Lesbians | BB4475.02 |