The New Orleans Jazz Museum in the Book Talk of How Women Made Music: A Panel to Celebrate the Acclaimed Book on Thursday, March 20th at 2:00 PM CDT inside the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
This program takes place inside our third floor Performance Center, listening room. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.
Enjoy Jazz Music from home with the New Orleans Jazz Museum! Join the Jazz Museum online for our daily Live-Stream Concert Series, in which dynamic musicians perform live from the Jazz Museum! Tune in at 2pm on facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/live to watch for free.
Alison Fensterstock is the editor of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music (Harper One, 2019) and the co-author of a biography of cartoonist Bunny Matthews forthcoming from the Historic New Orleans Collection Press in 2026. She has worked as a music writer in New Orleans at the Times-Picayune, Gambit, and 64 Parishes in New Orleans. Her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, the Oxford American, the New York Times, the LA Times and other places.
Gwen Thompkins is a New Orleans-based journalist and writer. From 2012-2021, she was the executive producer and host of the public radio program Music Inside Out, showcasing the unusually varied musical landscape of Louisiana. Thompkins was the longtime senior editor of NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott. Currently, she’s writing a book based on the Music Inside Out interviews while earning a PhD in history at Tulane University.
Melissa A. Weber is an artist-scholar and music historian who serves as curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University Special Collections. As an adjunct professor, she teaches History of Urban Music at Loyola University New Orleans. In her spare time, and under the moniker of Soul Sister, she has hosted her Soul Power show on WWOZ FM New Orleans community radio station for over 30 years. Her writing includes pieces for the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Wax Poetics, Red Bull Music Academy, and Vinyl Me, Please.
New Orleans-based writer and editor Jennifer Odell has covered the city's music and culture for more than two decades, contributing regularly to outlets like the Gambit, Downbeat, Jazz Times, Rolling Stone and Offbeat, among others. Jen is currently working with Tipitina's Record Club on a series of album notes for the label, including recent releases featuring the Wild Tchoupitoulas with the Neville Brothers, Irma Thomas with Galactic, James Black, Taj Mahal, Sister Gertrude Morgan and more.