Rubymusic : a popular history of women's music and culture /

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Introduction: I'm a Radio -- Women's Music and the Mothers of Invention -- Feminist Music -- [Part 1] What's That Sound -- There is a Wind That Never Dies: The Life of Yoko Ono -- Joni Mitchell: Fifty Years in Review -- Strange Women -- More Stories from "Strange Women" -- [Part 2] On the Road -- Steinem on Steinem: Something Happened on the Way to Becoming a Rockette -- Psychedelic Past Powers Guitarist: An Interview with Ellen McIlwaine -- A Life Full of Sharp Shocks: An Interview with Michelle Shocked -- Esther Bejarano: Songs Testify to Courage -- Country Raised, Country Blessed: An Interview with Teresa Trull and Cris Williamson -- Quietly Christian Pop: Amy Grant's Spiritual Songs Reach Out to a Secular Audience -- Blues Player Blessed with a Style of Her Own: An Interview with Katie Webster -- Rita MacNeil's Simple Testimony -- Lillian Allen Says Her Piece -- An INterview with koko Taylor -- Etta James: Surviving with Soul -- Patsy Lives: An Interview with K.D. Lang -- [Part 3] Face the Music -- Rise Up: Songs fo the Women's Movement: Can't Find Its Feet -- A Woman's Place is on the Radio: Ten Years of Rubymusic -- A Brief History of Women's Music Festivals in Canada -- Mean and Marvellous Foremothers: An Interview with Rosetta Reitz -- [Part 4] Testimony -- Heather Bishop: Set to Tour States -- Emily Experiments with Music -- Singing for Ourselves: An Interview with Eileen Brown/Maura Volante -- An Interview with Animal Slaves -- True to Herself: An Interview with Ronnie Gilbert -- Country Western Singer, Songwriter and Single Mother: An Interview with Terilyn Ryan -- The Last Shall Be First: An Interview with jane Sapp -- Spectacles (Girls Who Wear Glasses): An Interview with Rebo Flordigan and Jan Luby -- Ferron -- Ellen McIlwaine: Rock and Roll Legend -- An Interview with Teresa Trull -- Bricktop: Queen of the Night, 1894-1984 -- [Part 5] Bonus Tracks -- Ellen McIlwaine: The Best of 2021 and of All Time -- Koneline: Our Land Beautiful: An Interview with Nettie Wild -- Culture Clash: The 35th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival, July 2012 -- The Song Remains the Same: The Shared Spirit of Women's Music -- Ferron: The Best of Our Times -- The Real Ellen McIlwaine (1975) : Everybody Needs It (1982) Liner Notes -- Rita MacNeil: Honest Emotion Overshadowed by Unfortuante Sound -- Terilyn Ryan Hosts Hen Night -- Janis Joplin: Buried Alive in the Blues -- Rubymusic: A Half-Hour of Music by Women Artists -- Epilogue: Meg Christian Concert Review."When journalist Connie Kuhns approached Vancouver Cooperative Radio in 1981 to host a music program dedicated solely to playing music by women, there was some doubt at the station that there was enough music by women to fill half an hour-- and besides, who would tune in? Such was the underground nature of women's music. Despite the doubters, Rubymusic became a successful program, running for fifteen years, introducing listeners to countless artists through radio, magazines and newspaper columns and on stage at Vancouver's annual Folk Music Fest, and serving as a powerful platform for the feminist movements taking place in Vancouver's punk scene and throughout music history in the 80s and 90s. Rubymusic also served as the launching pad for Kuhns' life-long passion-- the preservation of the histories and stories of the women with whom she crossed paths on the airwaves. Here is a time capsule of a pivotal moment in women's music history, with special emphasis on the women's music movement in Canada, including the only written history of the women involved in Vancouver's punk rock scene. Rubymusic also includes over two dozen first-person interviews going back into the early 1980s, featuring a diverse group of women, including Ferron, Etta James, Roni Gilbert, Lillian Allen, Koko Taylor, Gloria Steinem, kd lang, Michelle Shocked, Amy Grant, Ellen McIlwaine, as well as essays on Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, and why Yoko Ono matters. Rubymusic: A Popular History of Women's Music and Culture is a necessary reflection on fifteen years of radio history and forty years in music journalism that contains unparalleled stories of women who fought for the right to be heard."--