feminism
Mothership Women’s Festival and Retreat
An activist organization that creates kickass events for people whom identify partially or wholly as women/womxn and want to connect, collab and celebrate feminism.
music
history
Women Who Rock
Women Who Rock brings together scholars, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in the creation of cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond. The project encompasses several interwoven components: an annual participant-driven, community engagement conference and film festival; project-based coursework at the graduate and undergraduate levels; and an oral history archive that ties the various components together.
LGBTQ
Queer Music Heritage
From January 2000 until March 2015 “Queer Music Heritage” was both a radio show and a website, and the goal of both was to preserve and share the music of our culture.
music
Database of Brass Music by Women Composers
This archived searchable database currently contains compositions located as of 1989, the cut off point for inclusion as Chapter 13 in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, Vol III edited by Judith Lang Zaimont (Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1991) where this work was originally published.
music
International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) is an international membership organization of women and men dedicated to fostering and encouraging the activities of women in music, particularly in the areas of musical activity such as composing, performing, and research in which gender discrimination is an historic and ongoing concern.
International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM)
Women were remarkably important in the evolution of honky tonk music. Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Texas Ruby, among others, helped establish both the honky tonk sound and a new country music sound in which women took the lead and sang laments.
music
Honky Tonk Women: The Changing Role of Women in Country Music
Women were remarkably important in the evolution of honky tonk music. Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Texas Ruby, among others, helped establish both the honky tonk sound and a new country music sound in which women took the lead and sang laments. The honky tonk sound and esthetic created by women live on today in the music of Lucinda Williams, Tanya Tucker, The Dixie Chicks, and many others.
music
Ladyslipper Music
Ladyslipper is a North Carolina non-profit, tax-exempt organization which has been involved in many facets of women’s music, and most specifically the Women’s Music & Culture Movement, since 1976.
music
New York Women Composers, Inc.
Their mission is to create performing, recording, networking, and mentoring opportunities for its members, and to work for the betterment of all women concert-music composers.
music
Sweet Adelines International
Sweet Adelines International is a highly respected worldwide organization of women singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education, competition and performance.
