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20th-century women singers (3 C, 14 P) Pages in category "20th-century women musicians" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total.
20th-century women singers by nationality (129 C) O. 20th-century women opera singers (48 C, 30 P) R. 20th-century women rappers (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "20th ...
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
Tower has been a professor of music at Bard College in New York since 1982 and is considered one of the most influential female composers of the 20th century. [ 54 ] : 278–280 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939) was the first woman to receive a doctorate in composition from Juilliard .
Pages in category "20th-century American women singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,363 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues . Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Francis was born to an Italian-American family (one of her grandfathers having immigrated from Reggio Calabria in 1905) [7] in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero (1911–1996) and Ida (née Ferrari-di Vito; 1911–2000), spending her first years in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn area (Utica Avenue/St. Marks Place) before the family moved to New ...