Women of Rock Oral History Project is an oral history project based at Smith College focusing on American women and gender non-conforming, LGBT, and feminist rock and roll and punk music musicians from the 1970s to the present.
[1][2][3] The Women of Rock Oral History project was started in December 2014 as a collection of digital video interviews conducted by Smith College Ada Comstock scholar and archivist, Tanya Pearson.
[3] Thematic devices she saw seemed to devalue their music and their musicianship, where the musicians were subject to sexism and tokenism, especially in popular journalism.
A portion of each interview includes what it was like to work as a musician in the time period that they were active as well as their experiences in the current day.
[5][10][11][12][13] Pearson has also organized concerts, local shows, and events in support of the grassroots project, which often includes performances by subjects of the oral histories.