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Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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Setting the stage, 1949 : enter the Cold War |
The mood of the Cold War era is explored in interviews with Jessica Mitford, Helga Lohr-Bailey, and Billy Allan, three political activists of the forties and fifties. Produced as part of the KPFA thirtieth anniversary retrospective programming group. Interviews conducted by Helen Mickiewicz, Laurie Garrett, and Paul Allen. Produced by Helen Mickiewicz. |
Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996, Allan, Billy., Lohr Bailey, Helga, World politics -- 1945-, United States -- History., McCarthyism., KPFA thirty year retrospective, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | AZ0232 | Setting the stage, 1949 : enter the Cold War |
Ruthie Gorton sings her own songs / produced by Ed Schoenfeld |
Ruthie Gorton is a Los Angeles based "movement singer" who has performed around the country since the civil rights movement. She sings acapella, that is, without accompaniment, about a variety of social issues and movements in the U.S. and abroad. In this program, Ruthie sings her own songs. Produced at KPFA by Ed Schoenfeld. |
Gorton, Ruthie., Schoenfeld, Ed., Political ballads and songs., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women musicians -- United States. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0228 | Ruthie Gorton sings her own songs / produced by Ed Schoenfeld |
Faith Petric sings folk songs / produced by Ed Schoenfeld. |
Faith Petric (September 13, 1915-October 24, 2013) sings folk songs written by other musicians in the studio. Produced by Ed Schoenfeld. They discuss the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World), Bruce "Utah" Phillips, Petric's own biographical history, the folk music scene in the Bay Area, and Petric's involvement with the San Francisco Folk Music Club. |
Petric, Faith., Folk-songs., Women musicians., Radicalism -- Songs and music., Women folk musicians, San Francisco Folk Music Club, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0226 | Faith Petric sings folk songs / produced by Ed Schoenfeld. |
Madeline Duckles interviewed by William Mandel |
Interview with Madeline Duckles (May 19, 1916-Nov. 23, 2013), prominent Anti-Vietnam War Older-Generation activist (Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, Women for Peace). She had just been to the U.S.S.R. on an invitation of their Soviet Women's Committee. She discusses SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), etc.; her impressions of Soviet Central Asia vis-a-vis Vietnam, which she visited recently; women in the U.S.S.R., the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, health resorts on the Ob River, |
Duckles, Madeline, 1915-2013, Women -- Soviet Union., Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Novosibirsk (Russia) | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0213 | Madeline Duckles interviewed by William Mandel |
Tribute to Malvina Reynolds / produced by Ed Schoenfeld. |
This is a program of music and reflections produced at KPFA by Ed Schoenfeld on the night of folksinger Malvina Reynold's (August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) death. Includes two KPFA pitches by Reynolds. People who call in to share their thoughts on Malvina are Petria MacDonnell reading the epitaph Malvina wrote for herself over a year before her death; Florence MacDonald, Berkeley City Auditor and long time social activist; Tom Bates, State Assembly member from the East Bay; Country Joe McDonald; Mimi Farina; and David Dunaway. Pre-recorded songs played include Little Boxes -- Turn Around -- Mrs. Clara Sullivan's Letter -- Overtime -- World In Their Pocket -- The Plutonium Song -- We Don't Need The Men -- This World. The program's duration is 32:30, followed by a 1 min. 30 sec. song about KPFA called "Bag Pudding" and then a 53-second pitch from Malvina about how important it is to donate to KPFA. |
Women folk musicians, Women musicians., Folk music., Radicalism -- Songs and music., Reynolds, Malvina., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Activists | AZ0154 | Tribute to Malvina Reynolds / produced by Ed Schoenfeld. |
Sister of the road : the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha / by Bertha Thompson; produced by the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective |
This is a recording of members of the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective reading excerpts from the book "Sister of the Road," by Bertha Thompson, published in 1937 and out of print at the time the program was created. Bertha told her story to Dr. Ben L. Reitman, who wrote the introduction. The book describes socialist camps, boarding houses, prostitution, and social change. Program was produced by the following members of the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective: Ellen Dubrowin, Robin Gurse, Pat Hanley, Kathy McAnally, Rose Panico, and Linda Schiffman. Excerpts of the book, including Reitman's introduction, are read by Kathy McAnally, Linda Schiffman, Rose Panico, and Pat Hanley. Self-contained. The Archives have two versions: AZ0144(Copy 1) with music; AZ0144(Copy 2) without. |
Unlearning to Not Speak collective., Box-Car Bertha, Women authors, Tramps., Feminism and literature., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reitman, Ben L. (Ben Lewis), 1879-1942, Prostitution. | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | AZ0144 | Sister of the road : the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha / by Bertha Thompson; produced by the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective |
Ben Chavis and the Wilmington 10 / Elizabeth Chavis and Helen Othow interviewed by Angela Davis |
Angela Davis interviews Mrs. Elizabeth Chavis and Dr. Helen Othow, the mother and sister of the Reverend Ben Chavis, about Ben and the Wilmington 10. First broadcast on 11/28/77, 5:00 p.m. Produced by KPFA. |
Chavis, Elizabeth., Othow, Helen Chavis, 1932-, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Trials (Political crimes and offenses), Civil rights -- United States., Race discrimination -- United States., Blacks -- Civil rights., Wilmington 10, Chavis, Ben, 1948-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African Americans--Civil rights--History | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0138 | Ben Chavis and the Wilmington 10 / Elizabeth Chavis and Helen Othow interviewed by Angela Davis |
The Elizabethan Trio in performance / produced by April McMahon (Episode 24) |
This episode of Focus On Women Composers presents the Elizabethan Trio, a Bay Area group which performs works from the Elizabethan period and other early musical periods. This program set by the Elizabethan Trio is called "Eight Extraordinary Women program." This program consists of selections of poems, songs, writings, and keyboard works all produced by women of the 16th and 17th centuries. Elinor Armer, a Bay Area composer, set the poems The Flea by John Donne and Sonnet 11 by E. E. Cummings, to music especially for the Trio. The Trio is made up of Laurette Goldberg on harpsichord and virginals; Rella Lossy does the dramatic narrative; and Judith Nelson is the soprano. This tape was made from a performance at 1750 Arch Street in Berkeley. The recording engineer is Bob Schumacher. The pieces performed are The flea / poem by John Donne; music by Elinor Armer -- A poem of grief over her brother's death by Mary Sidney (1561-1621), music by John Bartlett -- Alcina's lament and the sirens' song from La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina / opera by Francesca Caccini -- Lagrime Mie / by Barbara Strozzi -- To the ladies / words by Mary Chudleigh -- Lieux ecartez / by Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre -- Suite in d minor / by Jacquet de la Guerre -- Sonnet 11 / poem by E. E. Cummings, music by Armer. |
Women composers., Women musicians., Armer, Elinor., Bartlet, John, active 1606-1610, Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640, Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729, Strozzi, Barbara, 1619-1677, Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady, 1656-1710, Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962., Donne, John, 1572-1631., Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Elizabethan Trio | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0113 | The Elizabethan Trio in performance / produced by April McMahon (Episode 24) |
The music of Margaret Fabrizio and Elinor Armer / produced by April McMahon (Episode 29) |
This episode of Focus on Women Composers features harpsichord music composed by Margaret Fabrizio and Elinor Armer, recorded on October 29, 1976 at 1750 Arch Street in Berkeley, which is now the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. Bob Schumacher is recording engineer. Presented and produced by April McMahon. Margaret Fabrizio is a harpsichordist and composer who taught at Stanford University for 25 years. Her "Hologram" pieces heard in this program are built around progressions of repeated configurations on a theme, to create a spiritual, meditative frame of mind. McMahon shares Fabrizio's own description of a hologram and her intentions with these compositions. Holograms I and III are for solo harpsichord; Hologram II is for two harpsichords and is performed by Joan Ferguson and Margaret Fabrizio. Elinor Armer teaches at UC Berkeley. She has set two poems to music: first a poem from the 16th century, The Flea, by John Donne; and a 20th century poem, "Sonnet 11" by E. E. Cummings. These works were written specially for the Elizabethan Trio, a Bay Area group, comprised of Rella Lossy, narrator; Judith Nelson, soprano; and Laurette Goldberg on harpsichord. Track list: 1. theme "Hologram I," Margaret Fabrizio (faded down and out) -- 2. continuity -- 3. "Hologram III," Margaret Fabrizio -- 4. continuity -- 5. "Hologram II," Margaret Fabrizi. -- 6. continuity -- 7. "The Flea" and "Sonnet 11," Elinor Armer -- 8. continuity |
Armer, Elinor., Fabrizio, Margaret, Women musicians., Women composers., Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962, Donne, John, 1572-1631., Harpsichord music, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Music for meditation | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0112 | The music of Margaret Fabrizio and Elinor Armer / produced by April McMahon (Episode 29) |
Janice Giteck / produced by April McMahon |
This program features an interview with American Composer Janice Giteck and selections from her musical works, L'ange Heurtebise and A'Agita (previously spelled Wi'igita). Giteck grew up in Tucson, Arizona and started playing piano at the age of five, composing at age six. She studied at Mills College in California and at the Paris Conservatory, and taught at Cal State University at Hayward and at UC Berkeley. Giteck is also a member of the Newport Costa Players and the Composers Cooperative. Giteck is married to John Duykers, a tenor with the San Francisco Opera. L'ange Heurtebise (The angel Herutebise) is based on a text by Jean Cocteau written in 1925, and is performed in French by John Duykers, with piano by Karl Goldstein. This is from a home recording provided by Giteck. A'Agita is based on legends of the Pima and Papago Indians of Southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, and is the name given to the harvest ceremonies. The performers of this piece are John Duykers singing the part of Corn Man; Michael Kissin as Old Man Tobacco; Thomasa Eckert as Tobacco Man's Daughter; and Scott Paulin as I'Itoi. The libretto is by Ron Giteck, Janice's cousin. This recording was made for KPFA by George Craig from live performances of the opera in April, May, and June 1977. This program is presented by April McMahon and Renee Roatcap. Published by April McMahon. Audio engineers were Susan Sailow and Joan Medlin. |
Giteck, Janice, 1946-, Women composers., Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963., Tohono O'odham Indians -- Fiction, Pima Indians -- Folklore, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0111 | Janice Giteck / produced by April McMahon |