Hymns and Hers: Feminist Choirs and Radical Carols
Jenny Moore, leader of the collective F*choir, joins Verity Sharp to discuss the feminist history of choral music. Plus, alternative carols from Polynesia to North Derbyshire.
There has been a blossoming of radical, all-female choirs in the UK over the last five years. The electronic drone choir NYX explore extended vocal techniques playing alongside the likes of Gazelle Twin and Hatis Noit, female collective Deep Throat release music on Bella Union, and all-gender feminist collective F*Choir use their platform to raise money for Action for Trans Health.
Why now? Verity Sharp is joined by Jenny Moore, leader of F*choir, to discuss this renewed interest in collective singing and to play pieces which explore the feminist history of choral music. Elsewhere we mark the season Late Junction style, with alternative carols from Polynesia, Phil Minton’s Feral Choir and a choir of pub-goers in North Derbyshire.
Produced by Alannah Chance.
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Music Played
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Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
Sherburne
- Where Will You Be Christmas Day?.
- Dust-to-Digital.
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Jenny Moore
We Want Our Bodies Back
- Jenny Moore's Mystic Business.
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Yosi Horikawa
Letter
- Vapor.
- First Word Records.
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V/Vm
Erald Hark Angel
- Whine And Missingtoe.
- V/Vm Test Records.
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Commoners Choir
Shelter Song
- Commoners Choir.
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Tamarii o Pirae (the Youth of Pirae) & David Fanshawe
Himene Tarava Pirae
- Pacific Chants (Polynesian Himene - The "Singing Reef").
- ARC Music.
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Micah Blue Smaldone
Winghold
- Ten Years Gone : A Tribute to Jack Rose.
- Tompkins Square.
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Mica Levi
Hosting
- Hosting / Dye.
- NTS.
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F* Choir
Keep Some Hope / Reclaim the Night
- Live recording.
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Deep Throat Choir
Daydreaming
- Be OK.
- Bella Union.
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OOIOO
UMA
- TAIGA.
- Thrill Jockey Records.
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Missy Mazzoli
Vesper Sparrow
Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.- Render.
- New Amsterdam Records.
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Tenores di Bitti
Ite m'importa sa vida (ballu lestru)
- Caminos De Pache.
- Felmay.
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Listen, The Snow Is Falling
- Wedding Album.
- Apple Records.
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Michael Vetter & The Overtone Choir
Breathing Wind
- Ancient Voices.
- Amiata Records.
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Phil Minton
The Feral Choir
- The Enigma Carols.
- Recorded.
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Pub goers at Royal Hotel Dungworth
Pentonville (While Shepherd's Watched)
- Hark, Hark! What News.
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Raymond Scott
A Rhythm Ballet
- Three Willow Park: Electronic Music From Inner Space, 1961-1971.
- Basta.
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Mark Gergis
Syria 1998, Turkey 1998, Laos 2000, Thailand 2000 (excerpt)
- Early​-​Century Sound Recordings.
- Discrepant.
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Lord Beginner
Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning
- Where Will You Be Christmas Day?.
- Dust-to-Digital.
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Dean Rodney Jr
Dean TV Christmas
- The Surround Christmas Album 3.
- The Surround.
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Josquin des Prez
Qui Habitat À 24
Ensemble: Huelgas Ensemble. Director: Paul Van Nevel.- 40 Voices.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Laraaji
Space Choir
- Celestial Music 1978-2011.
- All Saints ‎.
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The Voice Squad ‎
The Parting Glass
- Many's The Foolish Youth.
- Tara.
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- Fri 20 Dec 2019 23:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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