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Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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Four people of the town (Part 3 of 4) |
This is the third of four programs produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called "You must go home again: 1970," about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. This program presents a sort of "voice portrait" of four people who are active and influential in Tuscaloosa -- who will doubtlessly affect what is happening and will happen there. First broadcast on WBAI, November 23, 1970; KPFA, January 21, 1971. She notes that the volume levels fluctuate greatly in the recording. |
Tompkins, Marcia., City and town life -- Alabama., Tuscaloosa (Ala.), Racism -- Alabama., Women journalists., Be it ever so humble / produced by Elizabeth Marcia Tompkins., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC2793.03 | |
In the living room with Adele Gutman Nathan. |
Author Adele Gutman Nathan (1889 - 1986), among other things, was a suffragist who produced and directed pageants and celebrations. She discusses her life with WBAI's Nina Mende. Nathan was the youngest member of a delegation that traveled to Annapolis in 1920 to rally for women's suffrage. She has also written several history books, including "The building of the transcontinental railroad" (1951). Produced by Nina Mende. Program 5 in a series of many. |
Suffrage -- United States., Women -- History., Nathan, Adele Gutman, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC3021 | |
Women in Washington, D.C. |
This episode of Upstream is on women and dating in Washington, D.C. Topics covered include dating as a working woman, fidelity, and prescribed gender roles. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Marie Smith. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Black women -- History., African American Women, Dating | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | WZ0255.06 | |
Population report / produced and narrated by Elsa Knight Thompson and Dale Minor |
Program produced and narrated by Elsa Knight Thompson. Readings of articles about the world's population problem. Recording ends with "...of his own existence is at stake." |
Overpopulation., Birth control, Reproductive rights, Chandrasekhar, S. (Sripati), 1918-2001, Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975., Cook, Robert C. (Robert Carter), 1898-1991, Bennett, John C. (John Coleman), 1902-1995, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Religion | BB0043 | |
Disarmament now! / Linus Pauling and Henry Way Kendall (Episode 1 of 4) |
Disarmament Now! Episode 1 of 4. Linus Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) and Professor Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999). Professor Kendall, MIT, describes the results of nuclear warfare, how the USSR is vulnerable to nuclear attack, how it would affect the ozone shield and therefore us. His opinion: nuclear warfare would be a genetic and ecological disaster, like the Black Death in the 13th Century. Also heard on this recording is Bernard Feld (December 21, 1919 - February 24, 1993), editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Portions of this recording were taped during a special session on disarmament at the annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, which occurred in San Francisco in January 1980. Note on label: Starts low -- it's supposed to so don't freak out. Ends without credits and long music bit. |
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994, Feld, Bernard Taub, 1919-, Kendall, Henry W. (Henry Way), 1926-1999, Peace., World politics -- 1975-1985., Radiation -- Physiological effect., Nuclear disarmament., Antinuclear movement, Nuclear warfare., Disarmament now? / produced by Laurie Garrett., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Antinuclear movement -- United States, KPFA Stop The War Teach-In | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0417.01 | |
Sadie and Maude / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor |
In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant, and a poem titled "Inside the Church of the People" by an anonymous poet. Black liberation and its relationship to white women's liberation, and the Black family are discussed. The music is by Billie Holliday and Roberta Flack. BC0633 is a duplicate of this program. |
Henderson, Jeanette., Women, Black -- Personal narratives., Poets, Black., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women poets, African Americans--Civil rights--History | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Poetry | BB5133 | |
International League of Women Composers: String quartets (Episode 2 of 2) |
First of two episodes of a series called "Expressions", produced by the International League of Women Composers, highlighting string quartets (and one quintet) by living American women composers. Track list: 1. Intro; 2. Ruth Schontal, String Quartet in 13 movements; 2. Continuity; 3. Marga Richter, String Quartet No. 2; 4. Continuity; 5. Joyce Orenstein - Quintet for Strings; 6. Continuity; 7. Tui St. George Tucker - String Quartet. 8. Concluding commentary. Compiled by Doris Hays, with commentary by Joelle Wallach Crane. Produced for KPFA's Women's Department. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Women musicians., String quartets, Schonthal, Ruth, Richter, Marga, Orenstein, Joyce Ellin, Tucker, Tui St. George, 1924-2004 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1666.02 | |
Sex and art: scholarship and vulgarity |
A program on sex and art. Begins with a reading from Edward Albee's introduction to Atmospheres and Environments, the catalog from the Whitney Museum on the work of Louise Nevelson; excerpts from interview with art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway, who discusses Artforum and its bibliography on women and art; readings from the current issue of Art Criticism (Vol. 1 No. 2), "Women's Art and the Failure of Art Criticism" by Lawrence Alloway, and "Emerging Art History" by Sandra Langer; art critic Lucy Lippard on Eva Hesse and the situation of women artists and the role of sex in art; a review of the Times Square Show; and an interview with photorealist artist Audrey Flack. Produced for the Drama & Literature Department of WBAI by Ann Stubbs. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Feminist art criticism, Alloway, Lawrence, 1926-1990, Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970, Flack, Audrey, Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988, Lippard, Lucy R. | American Women -- Art and artists | IZ1382 | |
Classism and relationships among women / Jane Wagner and Josy Catoggio |
Jane Wagner and Josy Catoggio give previews of their upcoming talks at the 4th Annual Women and Alternative Lifestyles Conference, sponsored by the Sexuality and Lesbianism Task Force of LA-NOW. which was held June 9-10, 1979 at the University of Southern California. Wagner's talk is titled "Lovers: Do We Choose or Are We Driven or Is It Luck?", and she discusses how the answer to the question is "all three" - she then elaborates on the roles that personal responsibility and luck both play in relationships. Catoggio's workshop, titled "Understanding Classism in Relationships Between Women," addresses how to understand one's class position and how middle- and upper-class women need to listen to working-class women's experiences. Music by Meg Christian, Alive. Cut for rebroadcast. |
Wagner, Jane., Catoggio, Josy., Women -- Social conditions., Lesbian couples, Social classes -- United States., Interpersonal relations., Christian, Meg, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism | KZ0886 | |
Kim Pontier interview. |
Prisoner's wife discusses the fasting of her husband and ten other anti-war prisoners from Missouri. Interviewer's name not given on tape, recording fades out early. |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements, Prisoners -- Political activity., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict | BC1094 |