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BITCH
AND ANIMAL
are in
the current wave of women artists pushing the boundaries
of the queer cultural movement and addressing transgender
issues. They’ve toured with Ani DiFranco and have
two recordings—what’s that smell and
eternally hard.
ALIX DOBKIN,
dubbed “the original Riot Grrrl”, was a rising
folksinger who turned down offers to record for a major
label, and was described in an FBI report as “a dissenter
type…argumentative...a trouble maker.” In the
1970s she recorded the first lesbian identified album Lavendar
Jane Loves Women.
JUNE MILLINGTON
described as "one of the hottest female guitarist in
the industry" by Guitar Player Magazine, has been making
music since she was a child playing ukulele in her native
Philippines. She was an original member of "Fanny",
the first all women's rock band signed to a major label
(Warner Brothers).
SHARON WASHINGTON (The Washington Sisters)
entered the women’s music scene in the mid-1980s with
her sister Sändra. Their repertoire included jazz,
blues, ballads, gospel, reggae and Brazilian influenced
sounds; they have two recordings—Understated
and Take Two, produced by Teresa Trull.
In
its heyday, during the 1970s and 80s, women's music offered
a different message than mainstream musical culture. It
opened doors for women musicians, producers, sound and light
technicians and for new women-owned recording companies
and women-oriented shows. Pioneers like Cris Williamson,
Bernice Johnson Reagon, Margie Adam and Linda Tillery recall
the frustrations and the triumphs of finding women sound
engineers and other professionals in a completely male-dominated
industry.
This
groundbreaking documentary is the first to explore the full
depth and spectrum of the history and impact of the Women’s
Music Cultural Movement. Radical Harmonies features such
early stars of women's music as Meg Christian, Holly Near,
and Mary Watkins, as well as contemporary artists Indigo
Girls, Ani DiFranco, Bitch and Animal, and Melissa Ferrick.
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