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Jazz Heritage Wales Archive (Archif Menywod Cymru/Women's Archive of Wales) Ffeil / File
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26th International Ballad Conference, 1996

Material relating to the 26th International Ballad Conference, held at University College of Wales, Swansea, 19-24 July 1996, at which Jen Wilson presented a talk/performance titled Black, blue & red: a feminist historical perspective on gospel music & the blues, 1860-1930, including call for papers; abstract of Jen Wilson's talk; full texts of talks to be presented, with details relating to speakers; conference schedule; and correspondence.

5th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference

Material relating to the 5th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference, held at Leeds College of Music, 16-17 April 1999, including conference schedule; conference flyer; minutes of and report on Jazz Archives meeting; notification of Arts Council of Wales grant payment; train tickets and hotel bill receipt; correspondence; and details relating to concerts and academic courses held at LCM. It appears that, whilst Jen Wilson attended the Jazz Archives meeting as part of this conference, she did not give a formal presentation.

6th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference

Material relating to the 6th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference, held at Leeds College of Music, 10-11 April 2000, including conference flyer; minutes of the Jazz Archives meeting held at LCM, 11 April 2000; and correspondence, from which it appears that Jen Wilson had been invited to the Jazz Archives meeting and to give a presentation (titled The Devil's Music in Wales: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Race, Class and Gender 1859-1939) at this conference but was forced to withdraw after her funding application to the Arts Council of Wales was rejected.

7th Leeds International Jazz Education Conference

Material relating to the 7th Annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference held at Leeds College of Music, April 2001, at which Jen Wilson presented a talk titled The Devil's Music in Wales: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Race, Class and Gender 1859-1939 as perceived by the Welsh media, including draft and fair copies of conference paper; abstracts of papers to be presented; conference schedule and flyer; details relating to LCM summer schools and other academic courses; LCM prospectus for 2001-2; correspondence; and Jazz Archive news-sheet.

African-American Music in Swansea 1850-2001

Material relating to Jen Wilson's publication African-American Music in Swansea 1850-2001, which was funded by the Swansea Citizenship Millennium Award of 2001, including draft texts of proposed publication and research notes; together with material relating to the Millennium Awards scheme and to Jen Wilson's successful bid for funding.

African-American musical influences

Material relating to the influence of black music and musicians on the music and culture of Britain, and in particular of Swansea, in the earlier part of the 20th century, including lists of jazz bands and orchestras; photocopied photographs of white and blackface 'minstrel' bands; photocopied press cuttings; and printouts from online sources; together with general material relating to black issues, history and influence on white culture, including correspondence between Jen Wilson and Ray Winbush and others and printouts from online sources.

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