The Women of Rock Oral History Project is a collection of digital interviews and written transcripts housed at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, documenting the lives and careers of women in rock music, focusing primarily on artists who have been left out of the popular rock narrative. The Women of Rock Oral History Project has been made possible, in part, by the Helen Gurley Brown Magic Grant (2016) and the Rebecca Samay Rosenthal Memorial Fellowship (2015). The project is otherwise self-funded and sustained entirely by volunteer labor. This labor includes travel, video recording and editing, transcribing, grant writing, event organization and promotion, and publicity. You can view the list of volunteers here.
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Women of Rock Unite!: Oral History Project founder/director Tanya Pearson Explains How
Frustrated over a lack of sources about women rock musicians, a Smith College grad student decided to go to the sources themselves. Five years later, Tanya Pearson-writer, musician, archivist-has amassed a world-class archive of digital interviews and transcripts and is the director of the Women of Rock Oral History Project, housed at Smith College.
https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2018/01/04/kristin-hersh-legal-weapon-neon-music-phranc-azalia-snail-and-patty-schemel-join-the-women-of-rock-oral-history-project-fundraising-launch-party/
http://bust.com/music/194029-women-of-rock-oral-history.html
L.A.'s Female Punk Pioneers Are Writing Themselves Into Rock History
A Frogtown party will raise funds for the Women of Rock Oral History Project
Women Will Rock at Women of Rock Tonight
Ever since rock began, it has been kind of like a little boy's fort with a big NO WOMEN ALLOWED sign (Written in adorable crooked letters, which is probably the only time misogyny has ever be...
http://www.laweekly.com/music/the-women-of-rock-project-documents-interviews-for-deserved-recognition-9038676
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Women of Rock Oral History Project Launch: Panels
Written by Lucretia Tye Jasmine for The Los Angeles Beat Party with a purpose! Thursday night at Zebulon in Silver Lake launched the Women of Rock Oral History Project fundraising events, with a pu...
The Women of Rock Oral History Project At Zebulon Café, Thursday January 11th 2018
'But we still need to say we are women, it is still relevant'
The Women of Rock Oral History Project Aims to Rewrite History
When I think about rock & roll as a whole, the artists who first come to mind are Robert Plant, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, Keith Moon, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Iggy Pop, Slash, etc., etc. The list goes on forever.
Valley Show Girl: The Case of the Missing Wiki Edits
But the edits were rejected three times, by three different male editors. One had even blocked her after she had questioned him about the changes.
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VALLEY SHOW GIRL: Leave it to the Women
With a four-hour span, and almost 20 acts performing, each act showcased two songs each.
https://view.publitas.com/p222-4389/preview-april-2017/page/20-21
An Evening with Three Legendary Rebel Women at Le Poisson Rouge, January 27, 2017: Margot Olavarria, Bibbe Hansen, and Alice Bag
For full intro and part one of the series click here. For part two, click here. For part three click here. Our Punk Sound series implicitly argues that sound studies methodologies are better suited to understanding how punk works sonically than existing journalistic and academic conversations about musical genre, chord progressions, and/or genealogies of bands.
Two Smithies Awarded Magic Grants for Novel Oral History Projects
Two Smith alumnae are recipients of this year's Helen Gurley Brown Magic Grants, which provide funding for innovative projects by Smith Ada Comstock Scholars and recent program alumnae.
Women of Rock Oral History Project aims to create equal representation in music's narrative - Vanyaland
Women of Rock Oral History Project aims to create equal representation in music's narrative
Women Rock: sexism and music go together like rock and roll
Attending a Veruca Salt concert as a teenager in the '90s, Tanya Pearson never imagined that 20 years later she'd be asking lead vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post about sexism in the industry. A photo documenting Pearson's reunion with the two band members last year - she interviewed them for the Women of Rock [...]
Women Rock: sexism and music go together like rock and roll
Attending a Veruca Salt concert as a teenager in the '90s, Tanya Pearson never imagined that 20 years later she'd be asking lead vocalist-guitarists Nina Gordon and Louise Post about sexism in the industry. A photo documenting Pearson's reunion with the two band members last year - she interviewed them for the Women of Rock [...]
