Documents Tagged ‘Berkeley Women’s Music Collective’


San Francisco Women’s Musicians

Archive Entry Date: 02/1981

The Bay Area women's music community was coalescing, but being a female musician still had its challenges

Berkeley Women’s Music Collective

Archive Entry Date: 07/79

Debbie and Suzanne discuss the band's musicianship and songwriting process.

Tryin’ To Survive

Archive Entry Date: 07/79

The Collective's music unifies women and fuels their struggle for liberation.

Olivia Records Advertisement for BWMC

Archive Entry Date: 04/78

The women in the BWMC describe their relationship with Olivia Records

Advertisement for “Lesbian Concentrate”

Archive Entry Date: 08/77

The members of the Collective speak to their off-center place on Olivia's roster of artists

Record Review

Archive Entry Date: 06/77

The band's first album is an "affirmation of the power of women together"

Have You Seen These Women?

Archive Entry Date: c. 1976

A flier for the BWMC suggests how they upended gender roles

Berkeley Women’s Music Collective

Archive Entry Date: 08/75

The band on its relationship with the women's movement -- in its mid-70s moment and in retrospect

Gay and Proud

Archive Entry Date: 1975/1976

The song that profoundly affected the BWMC's audience — the uplifting but hard-edged "Gay and Proud"

We’re Hip

Archive Entry Date: 1975

Finding inspiration in incarcerated women, the BWMC were skeptical of "the bossman's game"

San Francisco Bank Song

Archive Entry Date: 1975

A portrait, in music, of a bank worker and her aspirations to broaden herself and the world

Fury

Archive Entry Date: 1975

A song about women's built-up rage, and how it led to a tense border stop

“No Thanks Mister”

Archive Entry Date: 1975

Nancy Henderson said "no thanks" to the bad "trips" of men she'd known

Mercy Me, I’m Lonely Tonight

Archive Entry Date: 1975

Nancy Vogl explored how the personal was the political on this track from the BWMC's first album

Sound Not Unsound Concert Review

Archive Entry Date: 05/1975

A concert critique reveals the challenges of the DIY nature of the women's music movement.

Is Women’s Music for Lesbians: A Review of Berkeley Women’s Music Collective

Archive Entry Date: 05/75

In "Lesbian Connection," a listener faulted the Collective for playing music for women, not lesbians

The Bloods

Archive Entry Date: 1975

Lesbians had "natural rhythm," the BWMC proclaimed in this "self-help" song about menstruation

Tryin’ To Survive (the BWMC’s second album)

Archive Entry Date: 1978

The Collective's broadened their musical palette on their second album

The Berkeley Music Collective Songbook

Archive Entry Date: 1975

A powerfully illustrated document of DIY feminist-lesbian liberation

Redwoods, Lovely Women, New Culture: Amazon Music Project

Archive Entry Date: 10/74

The Collective lent their music to a politically charged, clothing-optional feminist festival in the Santa Cruz mountains

Bay Area Women

Archive Entry Date: 04/74

The BWMC discusses the importance of the women's music community and the shelter from the male-dominated industry it provided

“Fury” Performed Live on KQED’s “Open Studio”

Archive Entry Date: c. 1975

A video of the Collective performing "Fury" on KQED's "Open Studio" program

How the Berkeley Women’s Music Collective Came Together

Archive Entry Date: c. 1974

Three original BWMC members recount the origins of the band

1500 Women at UCLA Hold Lesbian Conference

Archive Entry Date: 4/20/1973

The 1973 National Lesbian Conference was a consciousness-raising event for three of the BWMC's founders

Early Photo of The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective

Archive Entry Date: c. 1973

The dress of the Collective speaks to their persona and lifestyle

The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective (self-titled first album)

Archive Entry Date: 1976

The BWMC mixed folk, gospel, blues and rock as they powerfully gave voice to lesbian-feminist liberation