Nina Simone

May 29, 2018

Junior Girl Daniella Briscoe- Peaple writes about her love of Nina Simone and how the recording artist is an essential part of her relationship with her own mother.

Musical Gals: Lil Hardin-Armstrong

Jan 31, 2018

Music Period: 20th Century & beyond Location: America Claim to Fame: One of the most prominent jazz pianists of the time, later building a reputation as a jazz composer, arranger, and bandleader. When one thinks of trumpeters and jazz, the name that...

Girls in Podcasts: Caitlin Moran’s Desert Island Discs

Jan 26, 2018

For me, no one quite personifies the fourth wave of feminism like Caitlin Moran. While it has its few flaws, her 2011 autobiographical How To Be A Woman catapulted non-academic feminism onto bookshelves around the world. However, what’s always stood...

Musical Gals: Alma Mahler

Oct 23, 2017

Music Period: Romantic, 1930 – 1900 Location: Vienna Claim to Fame: Composing Lieder earlier in her life and becoming a musical inspiration for Mahler in his final years. Few realise that Alma Mahler was a composer. However, she was composing in an artistic...

Musical Gals: Amy Beach

Oct 9, 2017

Music Period: Romantic Location: New Hampshire, USA Claim to Fame: one of the few women to have found a place in mainstream histories of music. Amy Beach (neé Cheney) was an entirely self-taught composer born in New Hampshire in 1867. This incredible woman...

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