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7 - Most of My Sheroes Don’t Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz

from Part II - Women in Popular Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

By
Tammy L. Kernodle
Edited by
Laura Hamer
Laura Hamer
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Chapter 7, ‘Most of My Sheroes Don’t Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz’, considers the vital part that women – both vocalists and instrumentalists – made to the development of jazz, although they have tended to be excluded from standard historiographical narratives of the genre. With a focus on the development of jazz in the United States, Tammy L. Kernodle considers women jazz musicians’ work from the early days of New Orleans jazz, through jazz in Chicago, New York, Kansas City, and Europe, to the emergence of women jazz singers, including Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, and to the all-girl swing bands of the 1940s.

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JazzNew OrleansChicagoNew YorkKansas CitysingersinstrumentalistsBillie HolidayElla Fitzgeraldall-girl swing bands.
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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 , pp. 103 - 118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Taylor, Jeffrey. ‘With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovered Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s’, in Rustin, Nichole T. and Tucker, Sherrie (eds.), Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008), 48–63.Google Scholar
Tucker, Sherrie. ‘Nobody’s Sweethearts: Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm.’ American Music, vol. 16, no. 3 (Autumn 1998), 255–88.Google Scholar
Tucker, Sherrie. Swing Shift: ‘All-Girl’ Bands of the 1940s (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001).Google Scholar
Tucker, Sherrie. ‘Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band’, The Oral History Review, vol. 26, no. 1 (Winter–Spring 1999), 67–84.Google Scholar

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