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By 1983, The Music Indus­try was still basi­cal­ly a Man’s World, but many women embraced the DIY Do-It-Your­self men­tal­i­ty of the punk explo­sion to make their own music and tell their own stories.

Wom­en’s Wave inter­view band mem­bers who describe what it’s like com­pet­ing in a male dom­i­nat­ed endeav­or as well as some of the con­flicts with var­i­ous wom­en’s groups who find fault with the approach and vol­ume of their songs. You’ll here from bands such as The Slits, The Au Pairs, Unknown Gen­der, Wilma, The Avengers, Lau­rie Ander­son the Con­trac­tions and many more…

The Paci­fi­ca Radio Archives took the lib­er­ty to add just a touch to this pro­gram when a mem­ber of the band Wilma ref­er­ences cre­at­ing a song inspired by the open­ing pas­sage of Monique Wit­tig’s clas­sic nov­el Les Guerilleres. So we dug into the Paci­fi­ca Radio Archives and extract­ed that very open­ing pas­sage from our Eng­lish adap­ta­tion of this nov­el pre­sent­ed on the WBAI air­waves in 1973. That entire drama­ti­za­tion of Les Gueril­lieres can be found on From The Vault Episode 306.