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Women of Jazz

Background

Semantic Lab began its examination of the representation of women in the jazz historical record in 2014 as a more targeted consideration within the larger Linked Jazz project Linked Jazz. At the time, Linked Jazz had been working with interviews with jazz musicians and journalists to map relationships between musicians and other figures of the jazz world. This legacy project is now referred to as the Linked Jazz Oral History Network project (record | description) to distinguish itself from the Linked Jazz umbrella project (record | description) now in use for several different projects, including the Women of Jazz project.

In an attempt to examine the social networks of the women jazz musicians, Linked Jazz shifted its work from processing a mix of interviews with men and women from the jazz world to only women. It should be noted that this subset of interviews is not explicitly part of the Women of Jazz project, but it is acknowledged here as initiating Linked Jazz’s prolonged engagement to use the tools of information technology to maximize the discoverability of women’s contributions to the history of jazz. (links to documentation, articles? mention of edit-a-thons?)