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• 1 media/jazz-background2.jpg 2016-04-19T08:00:38-07:00 Revolutionary Women In Jazz 30 Intro to Digital Humanities Final Project toc 2016-05-14T09:13:41-07:00 Revolutionary Women in Jazz aims to inform users about the trajectory and path breaking experiences of talented women from different ethnic backgrounds who defied societal norms.  The project examines their struggle against gendered and racialized social standards during the mid- twentieth century.  This digital project defines “Revolutionary Women in Jazz” by referring to women who had to overcome barriers of race, musical talent, and/ or gender oppression.  While many of the women shared common themes, i.e., family life, influence, the sources did not yield a similar result for all of the women.  However, because of the information's relevance, our DHi team deemed it important to include. We found the following women to be just a few Revolutionary Women in Jazz out of many: Ann Rabson, Dianne Reeves, Etta Jones, Holly Hofmann, Maria Schneider, Mary Lou Williams, Michi Fuji, Nancy Wilson, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Vi Redd.
   

  How To Use This Website

  Navigating and using this website is very simple. At the top left of the website there is an icon that when hovered over with the mouse reveals the navigation menu for the website. From here, you can access and explore any part of the website and visit pages on each individual woman. Also included on the webpages are YouTube videos of various video clips of the particular woman beign interviewed. They can simply be viewed by clicking on them effectively pressing play. After that there are also full transcripts of the interviews that can be viewed.
  
  
  Sarah Pickup, Lissette Acosta, Matt Goon, and Terri Moise completed this project in fulfillment of the partial requirement of the Introduction to Digital Humanities Course taught by Dr. Angel Nieves at Hamilton College.
   
• 1 media/jazz-background2.jpg 2016-04-19T07:55:24-07:00 Etta Jones 6 plain 2016-05-14T13:36:43-07:00 Etta Jones
  An artist who emerged in the 1940s, Etta Jones was an African American jazz singer born in Aiken, South Carolina and raised in Harlem, New York. Racial segregation was part of the U.S. society then and thus at the time of her raising career, Etta Jones found herself at times performing for an audience divided “by a rope down the middle” white on one side and black on the other. She recalls then a similar experience in a liquor store, but then the money would go to the same cash register.

  GENDER/ GENDER BIAS

  As a professional singer and woman, Etta Jones remembers getting paid more than the musicians. While the musicians earned $35 a night, the talented jazz singer made for herself $50 a night.

  INFLUENCE

  As a child—as early as the age of three—Jones was interested in music and as such, at this early age would sing jazz songs she heard on the radio. But it was the when she heard Billie Holiday that she knew she wanted to be a singer. In terms of personal influence, the artists received a lot of help from her pal musicians, especially those with whom she played with.

  INDEPENDENCE

  Jones, still enjoyed popularity and fame in the later years of her career. In 1998, she expressed to still touring nationally and internationally and how she loved to travel. (Jones, Interview, 10/2/1988, Line 48).
  
  
  
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  For full interview transcript, read the following: