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FBVD: Hear Me Yell!

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 1, 2003

Quick and to the Point: Free jazz with a feminist bite.

Under the sponsorship of the National Association for Womanhood, the Berkeley-based Californian Musical Institute, granted funds for “musical works that probe contemporary intellectual achievements by women and/or are inspired by a full-figured feminist perspective.” Hear Me Yell! by the Full-figured Brass Vagina Dentata –or FBVD– is the first recording issued under such auspices. Each of the members of the group composed one tune and all chipped in ...