From the library and from the archives of the National Women's History Alliance

Celebrating Women Creating Music

Songs She Wrote - Forty Hits by Pioneering Women of Popular Music
by Michael G. Garber (Author), Janie Bradford (Foreword), Tish Oney (Foreword) 
Women built the popular song industry of Tin Pan Alley, yet many of their stories have seldom been told. They blazed the trail for women in music today and set an inspiring example for generations to come.
Songs She Wrote celebrates women's contributions to popular music by looking at dozens of well-known songwriters, lyricists, and composers in the first half of the twentieth century, like Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, and Dorothy Parker, and unearths more unknown women who made major contributions.
Learn about Maria Grever (“What a Difference a Day Made”), who was the first female Mexican to achieve international acclaim, and the fascinating story of African American lyricist Lucy Fletcher (“Sugar Blues”), among many others. Women in the popular music business went through struggles different from those of their male colleagues, making their triumphs all the more impressive. Their combined sagas convey an epic about women in the world of American popular music.
Hardcover, 320 pages. pub. 2025

Two Cuban Songs arranged by Tanio Leon for mixed vocal ensemble
     Drume Negrita by Ernesto Grenet
     El Manisero by Moises Simons
Published by PeerMusic autographed by Tanio Leon 
A recent recipient of the Kennedy Center Awards, Tania León is a Cuban-born American composer of both large-scale and chamber works. She is also renowned as a conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. A multi-faceted musician, Tania Leon is an international figure in the music world who has used her diverse background and musical influences to create award-winning music.  She is a warm, lively woman who accepted no limits on her own achievement and who has changed the face of conducting by making it female. She was a National Women's History Alliance Honoree in 1995

Celebrating Women of Excellence through Music - A Tribute to the 150th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention 
A Printed Commemorative Program of this extraordinary 1998 musical event sponsored by The Minnesota Orchestra and The Upper Midwest Women's History Center.