Alix Dobkin Performance [Fair Use Excerpt]
Songwriting, performance, live music
Alix Dobkin sings a collection of her songs at an unknown location. The uploaded file has been cropped due to Fair Use restrictions. Full file available to view at Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Alix Dobkin
February 7, 1976
<a href="http://herstories.prattinfoschool.nyc/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the LHA Copyright Statement</a>
English
AlixDobkin76
Bachelorettes, Side B, September 5, 1981
Music
Singing
Women
The sound recording is women singing the old hymn "Down in the River" with the words changed slightly. The rest of the recording is the women singing various songs.
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 668 Moving Image and Sound Archiving students
<a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a>
Digital Format: .MP3
Physical format: Cassette Tape
en
Audio Recording
Lou, October 21, 1981 (Tape 2)
Lesbians
Families
Lesbians & Motherhood
Lesbians of Color
Police Harassment
Songs
Music
Lou discusses her experience raising children as a lesbian woman, discussing at length her love of children, and wanting them to have a better life then she did. She also discusses her experience with police harassment as both a black women, and a lesbian.
Side B includes songs about lesbians, their lives and realities, and their relationships with children and their families.
Interviewee: Lou
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science, LIS 665 Projects in Digital Archives students
<a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a>
eng (http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php)
Sound
Physical Object
Oral History Interview
SPW517
Mabel Hampton Interview [Married Women / Singing]
Lesbian community, Fashion, Popular music, African American lesbians
Oral history interview with Mabel Hampton. Side A: Mabel discusses relationships she had with married women. She also discusses what she wore when she was in her early 20s and about her feelings about the openness of lesbians today. Side B: Mabel sings two songs- "My Buddy" and "Come to Me".
Mabel Hampton (Interviewee)
Side A (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw53_A.mp3
<a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a>
Original = Cassette Tape
WAV
MP3
English
Sound
Oral Histories
SPW53
Mabel Hampton Interview [Stories of Performing / Singing]
African American lesbians--Identity, Popular music, Lesbian couples
Oral history interview of Mabel Hampton. Mabel discusses meeting her partner Lillian Foster in 1932, whom she was with for 40 years until her passing in 1979. Mabel also mentions highlights of her professional career including performing at the World's Fair (perhaps 1939 World's Fair in New York), Carnegie Hall and Coney Island. Mabel also recounts a story involving an incident with a classmate in her youth. The tape finishes with a rendition of "My Buddy", sung by an unidentified vocalist and pianist
Mabel Hampton (Interviewee)
Side A (mp3) http://herstory.prattsils.org/mp3_files/spw56_A.mp3 Side A (wav) http://herstory.prattsils.org/wav_files/spw56_A.wav
<a href="/omeka/rights-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> See the LHA Copyright Statement </a>
Original = Cassette Tape
WAV
MP3
English
Sound
Oral Histories
SPW56