This week on From the Vault, we listen to the women's music movement in the early 1970's through the eyes of one of the important contributors to this era, Holly Near.
Interviewed in March 2015, Near salutes the many women who helped create this movement and clarifies the many dynamics at work as women began to create their own space for storytelling through music.
Throughout the interview, we weave in a 23-year-old Near's live 1974 performance at Pacifica Station KPFK in Los Angeles on the Folkscene show hosted by folk legends Howard and Roz Larman. Near performs "No More Genocide," "Old Time Woman," "Monday Night Blue Girl," "Santa Monica Pier," and "It's More Important to Me."
From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the GRAMMY Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration, and past grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners. We also thank our partners and collaborators at the Pop-Up Archive, Amara, Other Minds Archives, George Blood Audio, and the California Audio Visual Preservation Project.
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