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56-619: Dobkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alix Dobkin (1940–2021), American folk singer-songwriter Bob Dobkin , electrical engineer David Dobkin (director) (born 1969), film director, producer and former screenwriter David P. Dobkin , the Dean of the Faculty and Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University Debra Dobkin , musician and painter Eliyahu Dobkin (1898–1976), leading figure of

112-478: A factor in the second wave feminist movement . In the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, some critics and musicians perceived that there were few "positive women's images within popular music" and a "lack of opportunities for female performers". They viewed women as having a disadvantage in the field because of their difference in gender. At the time, major US record labels had only signed

168-508: A few women's bands, including Fanny , Birtha , The Deadly Nightshade , Goldie and the Gingerbreads and the band that evolved into Isis . In reaction to this perceived lack of inclusion of women in the mainstream, some feminists decided it necessary for women to create a separate space for women to create music. Lesbian and feminist separatism was then used as a "tactic which focused women's energy and would give an enormous boost to

224-595: A member of the OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change) Steering Committee. Her 2009 memoir, My Red Blood , was published by Alyson Books . Dobkin spoke about women-only spaces and protections for lesbian women. She was a vocal critic of the inclusion of trans women in women-only spaces. In one letter to the National Center for Lesbian Rights , she asserted, "For over twenty years men have declared themselves 'women,' manipulated their bodies and then demanded

280-522: A more specific classification for their music based on the type of music, thus expanding the listening group. Some musicians did not want to show their identity to the public due to the marketing aspect. The late period of Women's Music, the white women dominant extreme central ideas that led to racism to other groups, such as people of color, straight women, men, transgenders, even lesbians who have children and who had relationship with men before. The extreme musicians aspect infuse into their music thus cause

336-498: A protest just outside the festival's venue each year until 2010, when it was forced to shut down. Though the incident that happened in 1991 with Burkholder was the only time a trans woman was asked to leave the Festival, the controversy became an organizing tool to protest the intention of the Festival for 20 years. Petitions and boycotts ensued from notable organizations like GLAAD while MichFest founder Lisa Vogel insisted that it

392-476: A public personality to do at the time. She met partner Liza Cowan when performing on the latter's radio show in New York. The meeting was subsequently described as "love at first sight" and the two women came out as a couple and moved in together in 1971, residing with Dobkin's daughter Adrian. Dobkin suffered a brain aneurysm on April 29, 2021, and was subsequently admitted to Westchester Medical Center . She

448-430: A result, Olivia Records spread out to different industries to help its music projects become more profitable. With this expansion Olivia Records entered the travel industry, and Olivia Cruises and Resorts was founded in 1990. However, even with this expansion, sales in women's music continued to decline dramatically. There were many social and economic components that caused the women's music business to start failing in

504-495: A sense of community for the lesbian community. The National Women's Music Festival has in addition to the many lesbian participants and organizers, the festival's music, humor, and crafts promote a "positive lesbian identity." The festival has also been a place where women can openly display their sexuality including same-sex affections. Currently, festivals continue to thrive in the United States and other countries. The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, or MWMF or MichFest for short,

560-640: A small and devoted audience, has been called a "women's music legend" by Spin Magazine , "pithy" by The Village Voice , "Biting...inventive... imaginative" by New Age Journal , "uncompromising" in the New York Times Magazine , and "a troublemaker" by the FBI . She gained some unexpected fame in the 1980s when comedians such as David Letterman and Howard Stern tracked down her Lavender Jane Loves Women album, and began playing phrases from

616-538: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dobkin&oldid=1043031546 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alix Dobkin Alix Cecil Dobkin (August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021)

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672-517: A women's music festival in Berlin . They formed the German women's rock band Flying Lesbians and released one self-titled album in 1975. Goldenrod Music Distribution, founded by Terry Grant in 1975, has been credited by Lauron Kehrer as a major influence in the launch of the women's music movement. Kehrer noted that although the organization was founded on the premise of helping women and lesbians, it

728-491: A writer's conference in addition to other topics in a "general workshop series." Bonnie Morris describes in her book Eden Built by Eves , how festivals serve women throughout the stages of their lives. Festivals support a safe space for coming of age rituals for young women, adult romance and commitment ceremonies, the expression of alternative perspectives on motherhood, and the expression of grief and loss. Though historically controversial, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

784-490: Is hard for the companies whose focus on Women's Music to gained any financial through it under a male dominant and capitalized society, such as the male dominant companies refuse to collaborate with them. Additionally, the risk in Women's Music financially that appears is clear that as Women's Music records tried to financing, rarely got anyone took the risk to invest. Thus most of Women's Music records shut down. Olivia Records ,

840-476: Is not only associated with female performers but also had all female workers in the industry. Studio musicians , producers , sound engineers , technicians , cover artists, distributors , promoters , and festival organizers who are also women. At the beginning of 1970s, as a second-wave feminists began, feminists did not fight for lesbians. While the Stonewall Riots in 1969 became the cradle for

896-431: Is not transphobic to have a "healthy, whole, loving space" for women who were assigned female at birth to come together. The festival ceased operations after its 2015 rendition. While this controversy highlighted some of women's music's key issues with inclusivity, it is still notable that the "movement was engineered by an out trans woman" and that "Olivia Records, the radical feminist lesbian separatist music collective,

952-441: Is sometimes posed as an example of an environment that celebrates all women, not just those who conform to stereotypes in mainstream media. Morris describes attendees at the festival as "women who are sexy in wheelchairs, women who are sexy at 260 pounds, women who are sexy at age 70, long-term interracial romances - and all the rest of womenkind that television will not show or will tell us does not count." Festivals also help create

1008-615: The Tyler School of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1962. Dobkin began her career by performing on the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene in 1962. She played with greats like Bob Dylan and Buffy Sainte-Marie . Starting in 1973, she released a number of albums as well as a songbook and toured throughout the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand promoting lesbian culture and community through women's music . Dobkin enjoyed

1064-487: The second-wave feminist movement and included the female labor, civil rights , and peace movements . The movement was started by lesbian performers such as Cris Williamson , Meg Christian and Margie Adam , African-American musicians including Linda Tillery , Mary Watkins , Gwen Avery and activists such as Bernice Johnson Reagon and her group Sweet Honey in the Rock , and peace activist Holly Near . Women's music

1120-458: The 1980s and 1990s. In order to solve these different issues, the MIC (Music Industry Conference) came together to figure out what could be done. For an entire week around 80 women in the music business discussed the prevalent questions/concerns that were affecting women's music at that time. The main topics at the conference were the drop in concert sizes, the unreal pay demands by the female performers,

1176-506: The Gay Liberation Movement, political feminists felt the danger of their past efforts and that their activities may be negatively labeled. They were often hostile to lesbian women. Further fragmentation between straight women and lesbians during the era was the rejection by National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) to lesbians. N.O.W. member Betty Friedan alleged lesbians were a lavender menace. A series of movements against

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1232-827: The Labor Zionism movement and signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence Jess Dobkin (born 1970), performance artist living and working in Toronto, Canada Lawrence Dobkin (1919–2002), American television director, actor and television screenwriter Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1922–2013), best-selling author and Professor in English at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York Marlene Dobkin de Rios (1939–2012), American cultural anthropologist, medical anthropologist, and psychotherapist Martin Dobkin ,

1288-482: The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The extreme central idea from musician cross into the context of their music and the performance that contains racism to other groups. There are common European classical semiotic codes that have been used throughout centuries to express femininity. These musical gestures changed over time as the meaning of femininity changed from the image of a beautiful woman gazed at from

1344-568: The Ohio Lesbian Festival, near Columbus Ohio, was created in 1988 and continues to be an ongoing celebration of womyn's music and culture. Many other festivals have been created throughout the United States and Canada since the mid-1970s and vary in size from a few hundred to thousands of attendees. The newest festival is the Los Angeles Women's Music Festival , which kicked off in 2007 with over 2,500 attendees, and which

1400-451: The United States. The organization had two purposes - to formally network and educate distributors on sales and business issues, and to bargain with Olivia while Olivia's financial pressures in turn pressured the distributors. In 1978, a national booking company, Roadwork Inc. was formed to promote women artists. All throughout the 1980s and 1990s, many women's bookstores that sold women's records relocated into smaller spaces or shut down. As

1456-646: The arts. Each 64-page issue included a soundsheet with at least four songs by lesbian and/or feminist artists. The first women's music festival occurred in 1973 at Sacramento State University. In May, 1974 the first National Women's Music Festival was held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, founded by University of Illinois student Kristin Lems . It celebrated its fortieth year in Middleton, Wisconsin, from July 2–5, 2015. The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

1512-419: The audiences from those communities got mad which limit the audience groups. Old lesbian separatist ideas, such as the exclusion of transgender women, were often more rigid and tended to dominate late Women's Music. The new generation of lesbians were more inclusive of transgender and other lesbian identities, leading to division between the two groups. For example, the transgender sound engineer Sandy Stone ,

1568-531: The feminist journal off our backs in 2000. In 1965 she married Sam Hood, who ran the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village. They moved to Miami and opened The Gaslight South folk club, but moved back to New York in 1968. Their daughter Adrian was born two years later, and the following year the marriage broke up. A few months later, Dobkin came out as a lesbian, which was uncommon for

1624-410: The feminist seal of approval from survivors of girlhood.... [My lyrics] are not 'oppressive' but refer to those of us who have a girlhood & a clitoris, & no one else." Her criticisms of postmodernism , sadomasochism , the transgender rights movement , and other movements appeared in several of her written columns, such as "Minstrel Blood." Her article "The Emperor's New Gender" appeared in

1680-501: The first mayor of the City of Mississauga, Ontario Mary Dobkin , advocate for children Mykhailo Dobkin (born 1970), Ukrainian politician Peter Dobkin Hall (born 1946), American author and historian Yosef Dobkin (1909–1977), Israeli chess master [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Dobkin . If an internal link intending to refer to

1736-669: The first overtly lesbian record, "Angry Atthis" (Atthis was a lover of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho ). Feldman had been performing the song since 1969, and its lyrics were specific to her feelings and experiences as a lesbian. In the same year the feminist all-woman bands The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band and the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band released Mountain Moving Day . In 1973, Alix Dobkin , flautist Kay Gardner , and bassist Patches Attom created

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1792-464: The first women's music record label, was created in 1973 by a collective including artist Meg Christian . Starting with a single that was successfully sold by mail order, Olivia was able to release Meg Christian's I Know You Know and Cris Williamson 's The Changer and the Changed. The Changer and the Changed was "one of the all-time best selling albums on any independent label" at that time, and

1848-722: The floor/No one's ever gonna keep me down again." Reddy creates a feeling of "girl power" that reflected the ambitions of the feminist movement. Lesbians found ways to express themselves through musical composition. Ethel Smyth , a composer, encoded her lesbian life experiences in her music. Genders of composers, writers, artists, and more have a lot to do with how music is perceived and interpreted. Cues such as tempo, articulation, and other dynamics signify many different types of meanings – they are not standard. Each musician uses these codes and cues to suit their music, and thus express themselves through song. Additionally, as lesbian musicians expressed themselves through music, they also broke

1904-473: The group Lavender Jane, and recorded an album entitled Lavender Jane Loves Women , the first full-length album for and by lesbians. These early recordings relied on sales through mail order and in a few lesbian-feminist bookstores , like Lambda Rising in Washington, D.C., as well as promotion by word of mouth. In May 1974, the women who would go on to form the first European women's rock band performed at

1960-534: The growth and development of women's music." The genre, which first came to be known as " lesbian music ," has its roots in certain musical contributions of the 1960s and is defined by the artists and labels in the 1970s who built upon this foundation in order to foster a lesbian-oriented musical movement. Out of the separatist movement came the first distributed examples of music created specifically for lesbians or feminists. In 1972, Maxine Feldman , who had been an "out" (openly gay) performer since 1964, recorded

2016-509: The growth of independent record labels and increasing demand for women's music, an organized system for distribution and promotion became necessary. Goldenrod Music was formed in 1975 to distribute for Olivia Records, and later expanded distribution to include other labels. Ladyslipper , a non-profit organization formed in 1976 to promote and distribute women's music. Olivia's informal network formed WILD (Women's Independent Labels Distributors) in 1977 to distribute music into different regions of

2072-498: The homosexual community began, with the central role labeling Gay Liberation as counterrevolutionary and bourgeois. The extreme rejection of lesbians led many political-concerned women to join lesbian-feminist collectives and sometimes led to lesbian separatist. Women's music was initially capturing the feminist’s central point, in bands such as Deadly Nightshade, the Chicago, and New Haven Women's Liberation bands, etc. They broadcast

2128-537: The ideas of the feminists' position but did not highlight the lesbian's aspect of view. In 1963, the American singer-songwriter Lesley Gore recorded and published her song " You Don't Own Me " expressing threatened emancipation, as the singer refrains to a lover that they "don't own" her, that they aren't to tell her what to do or what to say, and that they are not to put her on display. The song's lyrics became an inspiration for younger women and are sometimes cited as

2184-778: The isolation of lesbians in North American. They let the lesbians evolve a group identity and another possible coming-out process. Such that lesbians are able to hint to their families and friends about their identity by send them a CD of lesbian musicians' work. The Women's Music classification is based on the identity of musicians such as women, feminist, and lesbian, etc. This label let the lesbian community have chances to break their isolation from other communities in that they can use Women's Music to hint or shows their identity as lesbian to others. However, being labeled as Women's Music musicians may limit people's imagination on their music ability. Some musicians are more likely to give

2240-416: The lack of diversity in women artists, and how Olivia Records, which was initially intended to be a female ran company, was giving high positions to men. HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture was a women's music magazine published three times a year from 1984–1994. It was founded in Chicago by volunteers Toni Armstrong Jr., Michele Gautreaux, Ann Morris and Yvonne Zipter; Armstrong Jr. became

2296-603: The lesbian and feminist community, offer activities such as arts, crafts, fitness classes, and athletic events, and serve to provide opportunities for women to take advantage of resources they often cannot find in mainstream culture. One festival that provides such workshops is the National Women's Music Festival. In 1992, the festival provided workshops covering topics such as “drama”,” film and video,” “access-abilities,” “women’s health/sports and fitness,” “older women,” spirituality,” “women’s empowerment,” “women of color, and

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2352-404: The male point of view to a woman's view of herself full of strength and inner charm, but they always kept to their purpose: truthful expressionism. Feminist musicians aimed to show a positive, proactive, and assertive image of women that not only critiqued the rifts in regards to gender, but also demonstrated the goals of the feminist movement in terms of social justice regarding gender as well as

2408-421: The right of privacy concerning abortion and birth control. With the goal of breaking down the gender divide and level the gender differences, some women in this genre of music "adopt[ed] male dress codes and hair styles". Women also voiced their opinions and the goals of the feminist movement through lyrical contributions. In "I Am Woman," Helen Reddy sings, "I am woman/hear me roar/And I've been down there on

2464-498: The scope of women's music recordings to include women of color by recording Sweet Honey in the Rock , an a cappella group of African-American singers founded by Bernice Reagon in 1978. As these record labels grew, so did the music genres represented, and the ethnic and social diversity of the artists expanded. Several other labels were also formed by artists; Berkeley Women's Music Collective , Woody Simmons, and Teresa Trull were distributed by Olivia through their network. With

2520-521: The sole publisher in 1985. Tracy Baim of Windy City Times called HOT WIRE "the national voice of the burgeoning women's music movement and a wide-ranging chronicle of lesbian feminist culture." The magazine was a separatist publication and named after Zipter's erotic poem "Finding the Hot Wire". The publication focused exclusively on lesbian feminist musicians, festivals, venues, and various topics pertaining to writing, theater, dance, comedy, and

2576-454: The song "View From Gay Head" on the air. By the 21st century, Dobkin had ceased writing and recording new material, but continued to tour until her death, stating she had "lost interest" and that writing her memoir had "sucked up all the creativity.” In 1977, she became an associate of the American nonprofit publishing organization Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). Dobkin was

2632-405: The summer of 2021. Women%27s music Women's music initially focused on feminism questions which exposed the unfair treatment on female from society and families that was ignored by men. Its lyrics focused on the power of women individually and in women solidarity. Later, it became lesbian music. As an offshoot of the feminist movement, the genre was referred to as a musical expression of

2688-423: Was a subject of controversy for much of its existence due to its intention to create a space for womyn born womyn. In 1991, Nancy Jean Burkholder was asked to leave MichFest on the basis of her being a trans woman; the festival subsequently implemented its "womyn-born-womyn" policy that would face fierce criticism from trans and LGBTQ+ activists and organizations. In 1995, Camp Trans was established and would stage

2744-460: Was also the first LP to be entirely produced by women. "Changer" is the all-time best-selling album to come out of the women's music genre. Several other independent labels were created by artists such as Kay Gardner with the record label Wise Woman/Urana, Margie Adam with the record label Pleiades, Ani DiFranco with the record label Righteous Babe Records, and Holly Near with the record label Redwood Records in 1972. Redwood records expanded

2800-647: Was an American folk singer-songwriter, memoirist, and lesbian feminist activist. In 1979, she was the first American lesbian feminist musician to do a European concert tour. Dobkin was born in New York City into a Jewish Communist family, named after her uncle Alix who died fighting against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War . She was raised in Philadelphia and Kansas City . Dobkin graduated from Germantown High School in 1958 and

2856-686: Was created in 1976, and became the largest festival in the United States before ceasing operations after the fortieth festival in August 2015. The first West Coast Women's Musical and Cultural Festival, also known as Women’s Music & Comedy Festival, was held in October 1980 in Yosemite. Robin Tyler and Tori Osborne co-produced the festival, which received seed money from an accident settlement. From 1985-1995, The West Coast Women’s Music and Comedy Festival

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2912-453: Was held at Camp Tawonga. Every year, the organizers came with an all-women crew to set up an all-women space for a weekend of good food and entertainment. On the stage were Melissa Etheridge, Sweet Honey and the Rock, Teresa Trull, Ferron, Casselberry and Dupree, Lucie Blue Tremblay, Holly Near, and Chris Williamson. The last known festival took place on Labor Day Weekend in 1995. Other festivals are Lilith Fair which toured from 1997–1999 and

2968-418: Was made to resign from Olivia Records due to a group of women who threatened to boycott to the company due to her identity as a transgender woman. This led to series of movements during the era to protest against the exclusion of transgender women from women-only spaces. Due to the speciality of purpose of Women's Music, create a women-only space, and the cultural shocks to traditional patriarchal society, it

3024-401: Was originally scheduled to return in 2009, but has been on indefinite hiatus after the first event. Though the festivals are centered on music, they support many other facets of lesbian and feminist culture. Designed to provide a safe space for women's music and culture, many festivals are held on college campuses or in remote rural locations. Many festivals offer workshops on topics concerning

3080-463: Was taken off life support on May 11 and discharged on May 17. She died at home surrounded by family on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The cause of death was cited as a brain aneurysm and stroke . At the time of her death, Dobkin lived in Woodstock, New York . She is survived by her daughter Adrian, a brother and a sister, three grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. A memorial service was held for her in

3136-469: Was unable to work around the contradictions surrounding the company's ethics and place in a capitalist society. In the late period of the Women's Music, the focus became lesbian separatism. Most Women's Music festivals used either private land or one-time event contracts in order to insure that they could exclude men from the space. Certain ones either excluded boys above a certain age or didn't even allow boys. The most extreme and controversial shows were at

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