When journalist Connie Kuhns approached Vancouver Cooperative Radio in 1981 to host a music program dedicated solely to playing music by women, there was some doubt. Rubymusic Radio became a successful program, running for fifteen years. Here is a time capsule of a pivotal moment in women's music history, with special emphasis on the women's music movement in Canada. This is a necessary reflection on fifteen years of radio history and forty years in music journalism that contains unparalleled stories of women who fought for the right to be heard.
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