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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 2016-04-19T07:55:02-07:00 Terri Lyne Carrington 6 plain 2016-05-14T13:44:05-07:00 Terri Lyne Carrington

  RACE

  According to Terri Lyne Carrington, African-Americans “played an extremely strong role in the development of jazz” and explains that clearly the freedom of today is not the freedom of generations ago, but there has been progress in terms of the roles that you can play in the music industry now as opposed to before.¹

  INFLUENCE

  Carrington’s musical influence runs in the family and the genes were passed on directly, including the instrument. Her grandfather was a drummer who passed away shortly after Carrington was born. However, she had the opportunity to see her father—who played the saxophone and drums—play in the house often.² By the age of 10, Carrington was already playing with popular bands such as Clark Terry and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. This led to Carrington meeting Dianne Reeves and they later became friends.³

  INDEPENDENCE

  The musician believes that you don’t get into music thinking that you will make money, but if you are good and disciplined, is possible to make a living of being a musician.⁴
  
  
  
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  For full interview transcript, read the following:
   

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  1 See Terri Lyne Carrington, interview by Monk Rowe, Hamilton College Jazz Archive, January 9, 2003, lines 405-411, Transcript.
  2 Interview, lines 35-37.
  3 Interview, lines 58, 91.
  4 Interview, lines 424-427