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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...
Bought by KVCR
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Troubadours have been romanticized and re-imagined in popular culture for centuries now, but rarely does that evocative re-imagination include the ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2023
- Length: 59:02
An hour-long program of classic jazz, featuring women instrumentalists who thrived in the upside-down jazz world of wartime America.
Bought by WNMU-FM, WJCT, WGBH Radio Boston, High Plains Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 15
A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Before they were tragic characters in nineteenth-century opera, courtesans were the original Renaissance women: highly educated, socially refined, ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 59:01
As we continue to learn about women composers of the past, twelfth-century abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen remains one of the most studied, ...
Bought by WGTE Public Media
- Added: Nov 03, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 59:04
In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star.
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Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more
- Added: Mar 13, 2020
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...
Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 2
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." In a recent Views and Brews f...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and WJSU
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2