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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Always a bridesmaid, never a groom / Robin Tyler interviewed by Denise Wagner |
An interview with Robin Tyler by Denise Wagner. She talks about her background, how she got started as a stand-up comic, and some of their political views. With generous sprinklings of excerpts from Robin's new album on Olivia Records, "Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom." Recorded June 16, 1979. Notes on label: "References to Dan White, gas lines, rent control, Diane Feinstein. Very entertaining." |
Tyler, Robin., Comedians., Women entertainers., Always a bridesmaid, never a groom, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbians | American Women -- Comedians, American Women -- Lesbians | AZ0296 | Always a bridesmaid, never a groom / Robin Tyler interviewed by Denise Wagner |
| Amalia Fleming (Lady Fleming) on the Greek junta / introduced by John Brademas. |
Amalia Fleming (Lady Fleming) speaks on the situation in Greece under the General's right wing junta--a speech given before the Women's National Democratic Club in Washington, D.C. Lady Fleming was exiled from Greece and stripped of her Greek citizenship due to her political activities against the junta, and is the author of "A piece of truth," a personal account of her imprisonment. She is introduced by Congressman John Brademas (D-IN). |
Fleming, Amalia, Lady, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Political prisoners -- Greece., Greece--History--Coup d'état, 1967 (April 21), Brademas, John, 1927-, Women's National Democratic Club (U.S.) | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC1327 | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science / Chauncey Starr and other panel reports: hosted by Paul McIsaac. |
Paul McIsaac hosts the third in a series of programs called "Science and the quality of life," which is the theme chosen for this year's Association for the Advancement of Science conference. In this program, WBAI's Bonnie Bellow reports on the occupational health status of women, a panel which was held today at the Americana Hotel; Sam Julty, WBAI car person, talks about the panel he attended on the future of the car; Carol Lopate, an anthropologist who writes on housework and women, talks about the panel she sat in on, made up primarily of people who translate through the media, what's happening in the world of science for laypeople. Then Bob and Eileen Zalisk will join the panel with Chauncey Starr, head of Utilities Research Institute, who delivered today's public lecture called "Energy and societal development." |
Julty, Sam., Bellow, Bonnie., Lopate, Carol., Rosen, David., Starr, Chauncey., Occupational health and safety., Science -- Social aspects., Energy resources -- United States., American Association for the Advancement of Science., Women in science, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Science and scientists, American Women -- Health | BC2243.04 | |
| American marriage mores / Margaret Mead. |
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) analyzes America's values and norms governing marriage. Mead first discusses marriage customs in New Guinea, where she has performed extensive anthropological research. She then talks about the role of the family in America after WWII, and examines the evolution of courtship patterns, religious affiliations and social organization pertaining to American marriages throughout history. Recorded at Stanford University by KZSU, 22 May 1960. |
Marriage customs and rites, American., Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | BB0030 | American Marriage Mores (CD) |
| American women in history / Isabel Welsh ; interviewed by Judy Chicago. |
Isabel Welsh, political scientist at UC Berkeley who was involved in the lawsuit against the school for their discrimination against women, and artist Judy Chicago discuss the contribution of various women to American history and feminist political thought. Among the women discussed are Ann Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Jane Addams, and Emma Goldman. Produced by Everett Frost. |
Welsh, Isabel., Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Women -- History., Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902, Addams, Jane, 1860-1935, Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818, Hutchinson, Anne, 1591-1643, Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893, Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history | BC0602 | American Women in History / Isabel Welsh (CD) |
| Americans in Hanoi : the Taylor-Baez delegation returns / produced by Bruce Soloway. |
Four Americans were visiting Hanoi when the US began the heaviest bombing raids in the history of warfare in December, 1972. The four Americans were Telford Taylor, Professor of Law at Columbia University and Chief U.S. Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials; Joan Baez, folksinger and pacifist; Barry Romo, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW); and Michael Allen, Associate Dean of Yale Divinity School. This press conference, held at the Committee of Liaison in New York City on January 1, 1973, includes interviews with Baez, Romo and two POW parents. The program was produced by Bruce Soloway for WBAI. |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Baez, Joan, Taylor, Telford | American Women -- Vietnam conflict | BC1120 | |
| Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday. |
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW's Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.'s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled "Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone" was being staged. Also includes an interview with Brooks by Grace Cavalieri conducted at WPFW, with Mike Hodge of the Black Repertory Theatre and Noble Lee Lester, who recites a soliloquy from the production. Brooks reads some of her poetry and comments on seeing her work dramatized, on being categorized as a "Black woman poet", and on the potentially creative uses of anger and hatred. Produced by Taliba Holliday, with associate producers Angelo Anthony and Grace Cavalieri. |
Women poets, Cavalieri, Grace, Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anderson, Kathy, Gregory, Angelo, Lester, Noble Lee, African American women poets, D.C. Black Repertory Company | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Theater | WZ0014 | You stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Ialita Holliday. (CD) |
| An eclectic evening with Rosalyn Drexler and David Shapiro |
This is part one of a performance which was presented live in Studio C at WBAI in November 1972. In Part One, David Shapiro plays the violin and reads his poetry and that of his young students from Bedford-Stuyvesant. In Part Two, Rosalyn Drexler sings torch songs from the 1920s and 1930s, and reads excerpts from her novels. Mimi Anderson gives the introduction, and is the producer of the program. Engineered by Bill Taylor, Nancy Allen and Susan Sheftel. |
Drexler, Rosalyn, Shapiro, David, 1947-, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1390 | |
| An evening of music with Linda Tillery, June Millington, and Mary Watkins |
On August 9, 1981, musicians Linda Tillary (vocalist), June Millington of the rock band "Fanny" (guitarist and percussion), Mary Watkins (pianist), and some of their friends including Joy Julks (bassist), Arnold "Arnie" Baruch (tenor sax), Yolanda Nickell (alto sax), "Paul" (drums), Ray Obiedo (guitar) gave a great concert at the Great American Music Hall In San Francisco (Rock n'Roll Night). Note on box "This tape is the best of that concert." Not self-contained, but the musicians are given credit during the course of the performance. |
Tillery, Linda., Millington, June., Watkins, Mary, Women musicians., Evening with Linda Tillery, June Millington, and Mary Watkins.**An, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0614 | |
| An Evening with Anais Nin / interviewed by Judy Chicago. |
Nin reads from and discusses her book Fourth Diary. She also discusses her struggle to become an accepted author. 34 minutes in begins an interview by artist Judy Chicago. They discuss a disagreement they previously had about anger and women's liberation. Judy Chicago interview likely recorded in November 1971. Appears to be different from recording BC0453.04. 1 reel is on 2 CDs A & B. |
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors -- Personal narratives., Evening with Anais Nin / interviewed by Judy Chicago. **An, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chicago, Judy, 1939- | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC0619 | An Evening with Anaïs Nin / interviewed by Judy Chicago (CD) |