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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Women composers: interviews with Ora Williams and Virginia Eskin |
This series is "Portraits of women composers," produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. In this episode we will hear an interview and performance done at KPFK in Los Angeles with with musicologist Dr. Ora Williams, professor at Cal State Long Beach who has published American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey (Scarecrow Press, 2nd ed. 1978). Later Jeannie Pool interviews concert pianist Virginia Eskin about composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women composers, Women composers., Williams, Ora, 1926-, Eskin, Virginia, Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1411.01 | |
| Women composers: Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates |
Jeannie Pool interviews and plays music of Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates, two American women composers. "Portraits of women composers" was produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Giteck, Janice, 1946-, Coates, Gloria | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1411.02 | |
| Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tanya and William Mandel |
On Ms. magazine and womens' conditions in the Soviet Union. Mandel begins the program by introducing controversy over the book Women In Soviet Society by Professor Gail Lapidus of University of California Berkeley and the articles by dissenter women who had been expelled by the Soviet Union, which appeared in the November issue of Ms. magazine. Mandel invited his wife Tanya to join him on the show to give her comments on the book, the articles, and her own impressions of the status of women in the Soviet Union from her visits there. They discuss the two pieces of literature for about 24 minutes, then open the phone lines to take calls from their listeners. End is cut off. ,Program was originally cataloged with the title Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tammy Brantford interviewed by Peggy Stein and William Mandel. This particular audio recording, however, does not feature Tammy Brantford or Peggy Stein, so their names have been removed from the title and keywords. |
Ms. (Periodical), Women -- Soviet Union., Feminism, Radio call-in shows, Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0530 | Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tanya and William Mandel |
| Women Filmmakers / produced by Charles Senger and Portia Shapiro. |
This program is a review of six independent films produced by women filmmakers which were shown at the San Francisco Art Institute on July 15 under the auspices of the Canyon Cinematheque. The program includes a critique by Charles Senger, mixed with the soundtrack of the films, interviews with filmmakers at the showing and an interview with Louise Alaimo, whose film "The Woman's Film" appeared in the second part of the program. This program was co-produced by Charles Senger and Portia Shapiro. The six films are: Standing Water by Sandy Marshall; Promise Her Anything But Give Her the Kitchen Sink by Freude Bartlett; Angel Blue Sweet Wings by Chick Strand; P P 1 by Donna Deitch; Schmeerguntz by Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley; and The Woman's Film by San Francisco Newsreel. The reporters interview Anne Severson, a professor at the Institute; David Boatwright, Severson's co-producer; woman filmmaker Judy Frickas; Louise Alaimo (includes pre-recorded sound). The Louise Alaimo interview excerpt can be heard in full in BC0247. The entire soundtrack of her entire film is BC0185. No outro. Contains sensitive language. |
Shapiro, Portia., Senger, Charles., Filmmakers., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Experimental films. | American Women -- Film and television | BC0178 | |
| Women for peace at Geneva / produced by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews three Bay Area women who have just returned from the disarmament conference in Geneva. They were part of a group of 50 American women who went to the disarmament conference under the auspices of Women For Peace to urge the 17 nations assembled to take positive steps toward world peace. 1. Fred Haines reads an excerpt of I.F. Stone's article "How the Newspapers are Brainwashed and the Neutrals Gulled," which is about the women's visit to Geneva and how the news reaches the world's public. 2. At 14 minutes in, Thompson interviews Dr. June Brumer, Dr. Sadja Goldsmith, and Emily Lewis about the women they met at the Geneva conference, and about their experiences at the conference. In closing, Thompson reads a statement signed by 91 women from the United States, Austria, Canada, France, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, West Germany, and the Soviet Union which they presented along with petitions bearing 50,000 signatures at the Geneva conference. Introduced and produced by Elsa Knight Thompson. Program originally aired on KPFA's Eleventh Hour. |
Peace., Antinuclear movement, Lewis, Emily Vernon, 1920-2007, Goldsmith, Sadja 1930-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Brumer, June, Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests (1958-1962 : Geneva, Switzerland), Eleventh Hour | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism, American Women -- International women | BB0295 | |
| Women in advertising. |
Discussion of the presentation and exploitation of women by mass media advertising held at the Advertising Club of New York on Friday, December 15th, 1972. The subject of the panel is "Womanpower." The moderator is Joyce Snyder, former executive managing director of Art Directors Magazine and image coordinator for the NY chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). The panelists are Jane Trahey, 1970's Advertising Woman of the Year; Anne Tolstoi Foster (Wallach), head of NOW's advertising volunteer group and senior vice president and creative director of Degarmo Advertising; and Patricia "Pat" Carbine, formerly executive editor of Look Magazine, editorial director of McCall's Magazine, and now editor-in-chief and publisher of Ms. magazine and editorial director of the Harvard Radcliffe Publishing Procedures course. |
Women in advertising., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mass media and women, Wallach, Anne Tolstoi, Trahey, Jane, Carbine, Patricia Theresa | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Beauty and body image | BC1255 | |
| Women In Arms / Victoria Schultz interviewed by Norma Smith |
Interview with Victoria Schultz film-maker regarding her film "Women In Arms" about the Nicaraguan revolution, beginning with the general strike in June 1979 and culminating on July 17, 1979 with the overthrow of the Samosa family dictatorship. Schultz visited the KPFA studios in February 1981 to talk with Mariah Gallardon and Norma Smith about her experiences making the film and about the prospects for women in Central America. Contains pre-recorded music. "Adelante Nicaragua" by Grupo Pancasan on Ocarina Records. Produced by Norma Smith. Self contained. Can fade after 29 min. |
Schultz, Victoria., Nicaragua -- History -- Revolution, 1979., Women revolutionaries., Women -- Nicaragua., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Film and television | AZ0609 | |
| Women in art / produced by Bonnie Bellow. |
The problems of "women in art" are discussed by a panel of women artists and critics. The program was recorded during a series of Art Forums at the Emanu-El Midtown Y in New York. Panelists include Lucy Lippard, art critic; Cindy Nemser, teacher, writer and curator; Ruth Vodicka, sculptor; Camille Billops, sculptor and ceramics teacher at CCNY; Ce Roser, painter; Amy Stromsten, photographer and sculptor; Therese Schwartz, painter and editor of the New York Element; and May Stevens, artist and teacher at School of Visual Art and Queens College. Produced by Bonnie Bellow. Likely same series as BC0289. |
Women in art., Women artists, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | BC0290 | |
| 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 | |
| Women in chains |
Debra Smith, Tousha Wiley, Dolores Scott and Johnny Morris from the Harriet Tubman Prison Movement discuss the situation of women in prison. The Harriet Tubman Prison Movement is a national movement of Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Asians and Native Americans who are mobilizing support on the outside to aid Blacks and all minority prisoners on the inside of America's jails and institutions. Program includes listener call-ins. Produced by Mary Bess. Bella Brown was unable to attend but invited the participants who are present. |
Prisoners -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, PRISONS & PRISONERS, Prisons -- California., Prison reform. | American Women -- Law, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC0655 |