Aircheck from the live performance and broadcast of Survival Sunday, a "no nukes" rally held at the Hollywood Bowl on June 10, 1979. The event was also referred to as Survival Sunday II, as it was held a year after the first Survival Sunday antinuclear rally in Los Angeles. Reels 2, 3, 4, and 5 were preserved as part of the American Women project. Reels 1 and 6 were digitized in house at Pacifica.Reel 1: Opening- host Anita Frankel gives rundown of schedule for the rally; interviews...
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Topics: Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- Los Angeles -- 1979., Survival Sunday, 1979, Antinuclear...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Anthropological examination of the life and social customs among the current inhabitants of Topanga Canyon, a secluded suburb of Los Angeles, California. The documentary is on Topanga as it existed at the time of recording, ambient noise and all. The music is mostly by Ba-Ca-Da, a Topanga music group. Produced by Clare Loeb and Phil Twitchell. Engineered by Ron Garson. The audio quality of this recording is mostly pretty poor.
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Topics: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs., Spark, Clare., Topanga Canyon (Calif.), American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Judy Sherman interviews the all-woman rock group Birtha. They discuss their origins as a band and their experiences in both writing and performing music. The members of Birtha are Sherry Hagler (keyboards), Shele Pinizzotto (guitar), Rosemary Butler (bass, vocals) and Olivia "Liver" Favela (drums, vocals). Songs by Birtha heard in the recording are Work on a dream, Too much woman (for a hen pecked man), Judgement day, Fine talking man, Feeling lonely, and Free spirit.
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Topics: Women musicians., Birtha (Musical group), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
On June 29, 1972, Angela Davis, along with a number of entertainers, appeared at New York City's Madison Square Garden in a benefit for the Angela Davis Defense Fund. This program includes her speech on the need for Black activism and the advantages of socialism, as well as interviews with people attending the show, organizers of the program, and members of the National Renaissance Party, who protested the event. Produced by David Rapkin and Miriam Rosen for WBAI. The other speakers and...
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Topics: Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Blacks -- Political activity., Socialism -- United...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Dramatic readings from the memoirs of five anti-Tsarist anarchist women from the populist revolutionary movement of 1870's and 1880's in TSarist Russia. Includes interviews with Barbara Engel and Clifford Rosenthal, translators and editors of the book "Five sisters: women against the Tsar" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975). The "five sisters" are Vera Figner, Vera Zasulich, Olga Lyubatovich, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya, and Praskovya Ivanovskaya. The readers are Marianne Leone, Marcia...
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Topics: Schiff, Helene., Engel, Barbara., Rosenthal, Clifford., Danab, Marcia Mint., Pellett, Gail., Women...
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Talk about the discrimination and limited roles of women during the Renaissance. Fran Teague examines the role of women in the Renaissance -- not the Lucrezia Borgias or Isabella d'Estes, but the women who never made it into the history books. The program starts with a hypothetical biography of William Shakespeare's hypothetical sister Judith, who had many of her brother's gifts, but none of his opportunities. Included in the tape are three Spanish songs from the Renaissance: one a wooing song,...
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Topics: Women -- History., SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616., Women and literature--England--History--16th...
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Actuality from the benefit concert that took place on May 25, 1980 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Part 1 includes the opening, Pat Smith, Friends Band, and Alliance for Survival welcome. Part 2 includes Roscoe Lee Browne, Danny Ishio, (Solar) Bruce Mussell, and John Trudell. Part 3 includes Susan St. James, Holly Near, Ron Kovic, and Michio Kaku. Part 4 contains a performance by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Part 5 includes James Lawson, Peter Herreshoff of the Alliance for Survival, Helen...
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Topics: Smith, Pat, Friends Band, Alliance for Survival, Benefit performances., Antinuclear movement,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Actuality from the benefit concert that took place on May 25, 1980 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Part 1 includes the opening, Pat Smith, Friends Band, and Alliance for Survival welcome. Part 2 includes Roscoe Lee Browne, Danny Ishio, (Solar) Bruce Mussell, and John Trudell. Part 3 includes Susan St. James, Holly Near, Ron Kovic, and Michio Kaku. Part 4 contains a performance by Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Part 5 includes James Lawson, Peter Herreshoff of the Alliance for Survival, Helen...
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Topics: Smith, Pat, Friends Band, Alliance for Survival, Benefit performances., Antinuclear movement,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Biographical sketch of poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Program includes interview footage with Plath by Peter Orr from the British Council, recorded in London in October 1962. During this interview she reads the following poems: Stopped Dead, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, The Applicant, Medusa, A Secret, Amnesiac, Nick and the Candlestick, and A Birthday Present. Other readings included here by Plath are from 1958 and 1959, recorded in the U.S. This program also includes readings and/or interviews by...
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Topics: Plath, Sylvia, Feminist literature., Women poets, Blood jet is poetry : the life and work of Sylvia...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Feminist folksinger and composer Lois Ann Thomas has long been performing her music for the women's community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two of her performances were recorded live with a grant from the California Arts Council; the first set was recorded at The Bacchanal, a woman's bar in Albany, California in February 1977; the second set, beginning with Woman at the Bottom was recorded at Bishop's Coffee House in Oakland. This program was produced by Joan Medlin. Songs in order: 1....
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Topics: Thomas, Lois Ann., Folk music., Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Lady's Maid. By Katherine Mansfield. Performed by Pat Franklyn. Produced for radio by Erik Bauersfeld. Technical production by Danny McClosky. Self contained. Previously cataloged as "A lady's maid."
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Topics: Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923., Franklyn, Pat., Radio programs -- Fiction., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
African American folk, blues, jazz and spirituals singer Odetta (1930-2008) discusses her life in America, and her experiences in the music industry. An easy going interview held just before the closing of New York's Fillmore East. She talks about Black musicians in America, her childhood, being a woman in the performing world, her metaphysical view of the human experience, and the development of her music. Odetta sings Paul McCarney's "Every Night" which she says expresses,...
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Topics: Black singers -- Biography., Odetta, 1930-2008, African Americans, Women, SINGERS & SINGING,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Music of Casse Culver, Willie Tyson, Alix Dobkin, and Maxine Feldman. Casse Culver performs: "Three Gypsies", "Sacred River", "Crystal Skies". Willie Tyson performs: "Lay Me Down". Maxine Feldman performs "Amazon". Willie Tyson again with "Witching Hour." Program closes at 27:00 with closing credits, then music starts again. Casse Culver performs: "I'm Late Again". Willie Tyson performs "Did You Say Love". Alix...
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Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's music, Lesbians, Lesbian Feminist...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Sour Apple Tree presents "Cleaning up: a tribute to America's rich and how they spend their money." Written and directed by Clare Spark (Loeb). The montage was assembled by the Sour Apple Collective, from "gobbets" of real life and real print. Collectors were Harry Robin, Julia Winston and Harris Yulin. Some of the "gobbets" who spoke for themselves were Richard Sherwood, Nicholas Wilder, Big Black, and Nelson Rockefeller. Readings performed by Harris Yulin,...
Topics: Spark, Clare., Social classes -- United States., Art -- collectors and collecting., Art -- Economic...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Production reel containing excerpts for the June 8, 1982 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Part one contains clips of Helen Caldicott speaking about the threat of nuclear weapons; part two contains an unnamed speaker (Parsons?) at an Upper West Side Manhattan, NY town meeting on nuclear freeze and nuclear reduction, reading a telegram from Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Senator Mark Hatfield, and voting on a statement.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Caldicott, Helen, Nuclear disarmament.
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Susan Bertram, Rose Kolmetz and Joan Rabenau, employees at the Museum of Modern Art, talk with Clare Spark from KPFK about their union, Professional and Administrative Staff Assocation of the Museum of Modern Art (PASTA-MoMA) in New York City. Produced for Pacifica Radio with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Topics: Labor unions, Museums., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Louise Thompson interviews Julia Miles, Kathleen Chalfant and Gayle Austin of the American Place Theatre Women's Project. Over the last several months the Women's Project of the American Place Theatre solicited new plays from women playwrights around the country. Of the hundreds of plays they received, they chose twenty, which were read to an invited audience of theatre professionals. In the spring, four of these will be given studio productions open to the public.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Thompson, Louise., Miles, Julia, Chalfant,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Panel discussion on the rights of employed and unemployed women. Participants are Laura Sager, Women's Law Clinic at New York University; David Raff, Professor with the Employment Law Clinic, New York University School of Law; and Marilyn Brook, Worker's Defense League. Recoded at NOW-NYC, 47 E. 19th St., New York, NY 10003. Produced by Viv Sutherland. Previously cataloged as BC2586.
Topics: Working classes -- Social conditions., National Organization for Women, Brook, Marilyn., Sager,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The half-hour serial reading program "Continued tomorrow" featured "Other people's houses" by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler's Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete....
Topics: Segal, Lore Groszmann, Autobiography--Women authors, United States -- History -- 1933-1945, Vienna...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Australian author Germaine Greer (born in Australia, 1939) is interviewed by KPFA's Muriel Murch. She discusses her views on menopause, gender differences in the ways boys and girls are socialized and the differing roles men and women play in the family. No information on box label.
Topics: Greer, Germaine, 1939-, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The second session of the conference held at the U.C. Medical Center, San Francisco, September 14-15, 1968. Dr. Bruce Jessup of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare talks about programs in the United States. Douglas Stewart, director of community relations, Planned Parenthood World Population, speaks on the question of genocide. The session ends with a lively discussion about racism, genocide, and the problems of having the community involved with birth-control programs.
Topics: Jessup, Bruce., Birth control -- United States., University of California, San Francisco Medical...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Leonard Chabrowe, exploring the aims and workings of little magazines, talks with Sonia Raiziss, editor of Chelsea magazine. Raiziss discusses the magazine's origins and literary vision, the vagaries of the publishing industry, and the magazine's emphasis on works in translation, especially on French and Italian authors. Program illustrated by readings of excerpts from past and current issues: Ursule Molinaro - "Extortion"; Nathalie Sarraute - "Three Tropisms" (trans. Ursule...
Topics: Raiziss, Sonia., Journalism., Alternative press -- Periodicals., Chabrowe, Leonard., American Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Women's resistance in the Holocaust, a special program to mark Holocaust Remembrance day. Irena Klepfisz, Melanie Kaye and other women gather at Woman Books on April 21, 1982 to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the 39th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Broadcast on April 20, 1983.
Topics: HOLOCAUST, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)., Jewish women--United States, Warsaw...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone talk with historian, Roz Baxandall, who attended the founding conference of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Chicago on March 23 and 24, 1974. At the time of the interview, Baxendahl was writing a book on the history of women and work. They discuss this historic conference, which marks the first women's organization established totally by and for union women. Produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone. Recorded live.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Women labor unionists.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A light-hearted look at the world of blondes, incorporating music, interviews, readings and analysis of why some women choose to dye their hair blonde. Interviews include Dr. Alexandra Simons, psychiatrist with the Karen Horney Clinic; Jane Wagner, feminist therapist; and people on the street. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth and Linda Mack.
Topics: Rosenbluth, Helene, Hair -- Dyeing and bleaching., Women -- Attitudes., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Poet Verandah Porche (1945 - ), resident of Total Loss Farm, talks about her life in Vermont and reads poems. Program includes a long poem dedicated to Marshall Bloom. Produced by Mimi Weisbord Anderson.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Porche, Verandah., Anderson, Mimi Weisbord.,...
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Blanche Cooke talks about the life and work of Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), a radical, feminist, and socialist, and an attorney who graduated from the NYU law school in 1907. She was the first women New York State commissioner advocating for workers compensation, and she founded the Women's International Peace Movement, now called the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Program produced by Donna Allegra with technical assistance by Adrienne Gantt.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928, Women's...
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The Ruth Benedict Collective is a group of 25 women in the New York area including anthropologists, students of anthropology and non-academic colleagues. Here they discuss their work as affected by feminism, particularly in the areas of matriarchy, myths and sexual behavior in sub-human primates. They also discuss how their field might have been different had they been acquainted with the women's movement. None of the speakers' full names are given in the recording. Followed by a Q&A period...
Topics: Anthropologists., Women's movement -- United States., Ruth Benedict collective / produced by...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Margaret Creel, historian and professor of African-American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, describes the relationship between two American heroes--Presidents Washington and Lincoln-- to slavery and equality with KPFK's Clare Spark. 25 minutes of presentation, then discussion and phone calls from the audience. Produced by Clare Spark for Newswatch. This program elicited much listener response and requests for transcript and tapes. Starts with Mary Lou Williams' "Prelude...
Topics: Creel, Margaret Washington, 1946-, Spark, Clare., Civil rights., Washington, George, 1732-1799.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A documentary about the image of woman in TV advertising and programming in two parts. The first part of the program deals with the happy homemaker. who is busy, cautious, satisfied, plagued by modern maladies, and an ideal consumer unit. The second part of the program considers the ideal beauty, wherein women are either portrayed as beautiful objects or gray-haired grandmothers. Contains several clips from actual television shows and commercials, as well as satirical vignettes produced for the...
Topics: Tompkins, Angel., Skotnes, Pearl., Polakoff, Beverly., Anderson, Susan., Women in advertising.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Discussion of artists and of censorship with artist Judith Bernstein (1942 - ), whose giant, black, furry screw was recently censored at the Philadelphia Civic Center, and Carl Baldwin (? - 2004), an art historian and censorship activist. This program was produced with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, a federal agency. Contains sensitive language.
Topics: Spark, Clare., Censorship., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bernstein,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Poet and activist Judy Grahn and author Grace Paley speak at the Benefit for War Resisters League at the Women's Building in San Francisco. The recording opens with the band Swing Shift performing the song "My girl." Grahn's reading here is the unedited version of the reading heard in AZ0456. Paley's reading here is identical to the one heard in AZ0457A.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Grahn, Judy, 1940-, Paley, Grace., War...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is a recording of a paper delivered by Deirdre English at the Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation on September 21, 1975. The paper was titled "The professional, the mother, and the child - a history of child raising," and is "an attempt to look at some episodes to critique the role of the professional in child raising." Produced by Dave Metzger.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, English, Deirdre, Child development.,...
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A program of local Chamber music, organized by and featuring vocalist Lucy Shelton, performed at WBAI's Free Music Store on November 7, 1973. Performers include Elizabeth Wright, piano; Joanna Jenner, violin; Carol Buck and Fred Goldstein, cello; John Austin, viola; Crick Bergfeld[sp?], flute; Randy Haviland, bassoon; John Weaver, organ; and Jane Bryden, soprano. Pieces on this reel include assorted Beethoven folksongs, Shostakovich's Romantic Suite (op. 127), and Mozart's Canzonetta. Recorded...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chamber music., Shelton, Lucy, Sopranos...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An examination of current views on child raising. Suggestions of new roles for families, schools, and the media will be discussed, including excerpts from the Workshop on Non-Sexist Child Rearing, held February 6, 1972, sponsored by the Women's Center of Los Angeles. Includes live audience participation. Speakers include Chris DeSecco, a children's librarian, who discusses children's literature; Norma Farquar, a member of the Westside Women's Committee talking on text books and language; Carson...
Topics: Child development., Sexism, The new child : growing up without sex-role stereotypes, American Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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.
Topics: Drexler, Rosalyn, Shapiro, David, 1947-, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Viv Sutherland interviews Barbara Probst Solomon, author of "Arriving where we started," a political memoir of growing up in Spain in the 1940's, and Lourdes Benería, an economist born and raised in Spain, about the history of women and the women's movement in Spain. Hosted by Viv Sutherland.
Topics: Benería, Lourdes., Women -- Spain., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Solomon,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Consciousness raising. This is the first episode in a series to air on KPFA from June 21, 1972 until October 19, 1972. An examination of how self awareness affects our bodies, our attitudes, and our life. Consciousness raising broadcasts began by playing taped sessions, then listeners could call in and share their experiences and feelings. Previously numbered BC1087.01 and BC1087.02 (Part A processed with Batch 5, Part B with Batch 1B).
Topics: Body image., Consciousness raising., Women -- Psychology., Consciousness raising / produced by Jan...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Laurie Alexandre introduces Dorothy Healey (1914 - 2006), former chair of the Southern California chapter of the Communist Party, interviewing her mother, Barbara Nestor, on her activities as an anti-war and anti-capitalist activist. Nestor joined the Socialist party in 1915 and then later helped establish the Colorado chapter of the Communist Party. The end of the recording features a previously taped segment of Nestor singing union songs. Originally recorded in 1974. This recording is played...
Topics: Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006, Political ballads and songs., Women in politics., Socialism, American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Judy Pasternak interviews two members of the New York chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) about the organization and why they each joined it. The guests are Noreen Connell (1947 - ), president of New York Chapter of NOW, and Cathy Roche(Raush/Rauch/Rouch), who is running for president of NOW-NY. Date of broadcast unknown but likely spring 1979. This segment was originally broadcast as part of a Velvet Sledgehammer episode, see here: IZ1071.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Connell, Noreen, National Organization for...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A symposium of women writers taped on March 16, 1976 at the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York. The symposium was held in celebration of the publication of Ellen Moers' "Literary women" and was sponsored by Doubleday. Following the initial remarks of each panelist, the audience, consisting exclusively of women involved in the writing world, enters into dialogue with the panel on the implications of the term "woman writer" and whether there is in fact...
Topics: Jong, Erica., Robinson, Jill., Moers, Ellen., Gornick, Vivian., Lazarre, Jane., Gould, Lois.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is a recording of poetry by Gail Nichols from the Caribbean Poets Festival. Poems read include Island Gal, Poem for VMCC and Artery Alive. Uncertain if this was recorded at WBAI or WPFW. Date unknown.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women poets
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Barbara Burn, who edits art books for Viking Press in New York City, discusses the values and practices of the art book publishing world. Interview by Clare Spark in New York City. Technical production by Stephan Baldwin.
Topics: Burn, Barbara., Publishers and publishing., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Two speakers at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom conference, recorded May 27, 1981. Joanna [no last name given] on U.S. strategic policy and its impact on Europe; 24:00--Edith Ballantyne, General Secretary for the League Office in Geneva, Switzerland speaks about her European perspective on the U.S. armament policy.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's International League for Peace and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An evening to commemorate the Soweto Uprising which took place on June 16, 1984. Tracie Jones reads poetry and a representative of an African National Congress women's group discusses demonstrations in Harlem, as well as international and UN pressure on the South African government to end apartheid. Other female poets, including June Jordan, share their works.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anti-apartheid movement., Apartheid -- South...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This program examines the case of Alma Andrews, a Black woman and a nurse, charged with first-degree murder in San Francisco after defending herself against a Muni driver who attacked her with a razor in an apparent rape attempt. Contains interviews with Andrews herself; James McCready, Andrews' defense attorney; Dennis Chamberlain, the jury foreman; Pierre Merle, assistant district attorney for San Francisco; Rotea Gilford and Ernest Sanders, inspectors with San Francisco Police Department,...
Topics: Judicial system -- United States., Rape., Trials (Murder)., Andrews, Alma., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Berkeley Women's Music Collective perform in San Francisco, June 10, 1976, venue unknown. Songs performed (Reel 1): The Bloods; 2. The Fury (with Nancy Henderson on piano); 3. Mercy Me, I'm Lonely Tonight; 4. Take the Time. Songs performed (Reel 2): 1. Announcement by one of the band members; 2. The Commune Croon; 3. Rape; 4. Sea Woman; 5. I've Been Worried.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Berkeley Women's Music Collective, Women's...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
First audio heard is William Mandel introducing the phone-in portion of the show (about 9 seconds), which is cut off and there is a brief news report on the PLO's relations with Syria and Cairo, reported by Russ Stetler for Internews. At 35 seconds, an unidentified speaker announces Soviet Lives with William Mandel. Mandel says that "last week" he interviewed a Kyrgyz woman named Rosa about her mother and how she raised 12 children while maintaining a full-time job. This recording can...
Topics: Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, Women, Kyrgyz, Women -- Soviet...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Clare Loeb introduces a recording of Dr. David Kunzle, Ph.D, on artist-caricaturist Honore Daumier (1808 - 1879), his influence, and political art in general. Kunzle's lecture, which was originally delivered to an audience at the Bing Theatre of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where a concurrent exhibit of Daumier's work was being shown at the time, was here reproduced especially for The Sour Apple Tree.
Topics: Art and society., Caricatures and cartoons -- Social aspects., Daumier, Honore, 1808-1879.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The story and letters of the French school teacher, Gabrielle Russier, who committed suicide after being sentenced for having an affair with one of her younger students during the turmoil of May 1968. Based on the publication by Alfred Knopf, edited from the introduction by Mavis Gallant, and read by Miriam Bjerre and Barbara Morris Freed. Produced and directed by Ruth Hirschman, technical production by Bruce Gossard.
Topics: Bjerre, Miriam., Freed, Barbara Morris., Gallant, Mavis., Teachers -- Correspondence,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
