African American women musicians

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PRA Archive #	Title	Description	Genre	Broadcast Date
AZ0022	Timpanist Elayne Jones / produced by Charles Amirkhanian.	Charles Amirkhanian interviews timpanist Elayne Jones. She discusses her career, the problems...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFA, May 12, 1976.
AZ0098	Gay music for a spring night / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective.	Performances by three San Francisco area gay musicians. Blackberri, Gwen Avery, and Steven...		1976-09?-uu
AZ0107A	Bessie Jones at freight and salvage (Part 1 of 2) / produced by Martha Oelman and Joan Medlin.	(Tape label) Bessie Jones at Freight and Salvage. This program is completely self-contained....		KPFA, July 4, 1977.
AZ0107B	Bessie Jones at freight and salvage (Part 2 of 2) / produced by Martha Oelman and Joan Medlin.	(Tape label) Bessie Jones at Freight and Salvage. This program is completely self-contained....		KPFA, July 4, 1977.
AZ1657	Gwen Avery performing at KPFA	Gospel and blues singer Gwen Avery (1943 - 2014) performs in KPFA's Studio B on January 30...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFA, January 30, 1977
BB2012.33	Feinstein and Sarah Vaughan	The distinguished jazz and ballad singer with the three-octave range, Sarah Vaughan, when...		KPFA, 6 Feb. 1968.
BB3863.90	Whatever became of Hazel Scott / interviewed by Richard Lamparski.	Richard Lamparski elicits stories from African American jazz and classical pianist and singer...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Film and television, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	WBAI, September 21, 1971.
IZ0449.02	Sweet Honey in the Rock	Program contains excerpts from a Sweet Honey in the Rock performance at P.S. 41 in March 1978...	American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, 27 July 1978.
IZ0711	Bernice Johnson Reagon: Black Women's issues	Speech by Bernice Johnson Reagon, given November 11, 1980 at Barnard College's Reid...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, April 8, 1981
IZ1060	The Lesbian Show - October 23, 1978: Varied Voices of Black Women	This episode of The Lesbian Show features a conversation among three of the four women from "...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	WBAI, 23 Oct. 1978
IZ1181	Gwen Avery in Concert	A performance by jazz and gospel singer Gwen Avery in concert at Cooper Union's Great Hall...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Lesbians	WBAI, 15 Dec. 1979.
IZ1399	Wild women don't get the blues (Part 2 only)	Aircheck of program produced by Donna Allegra of music by Black women, acapella, jazz, blues,...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, Feb. 29, 1980
IZ1413	Jazzwomen U.S.A.: October 23, 1981	Self-contained episode from October 23, 1981. Conclusion of the previous episode's focus on...	American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, October 23, 1981
IZ1418	Edwina Lee Tyler concert at Columbia University, 1979	Edwina Lee Tyler, pioneer of African drumming by women, gives a concert on November 10, 1979 at...	American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, possibly 1979 (no broadcast info on tape)
IZ1427	The Varied Voices of Black Women: an Olivia Records concert	This is a recording of the final concert from the Olivia Records tour "The Varied Voices of...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Lesbians	WBAI, December 10, 1978

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