All female bands (commonly known as all women bands, all girl bands, or girl bands) are musical groups in which females sing and play all the instruments.
A distinction is made here with girl groups, in which females are primarily vocalists, though this terminology is not universally followed.
In the Jazz Age of the 1920s, "all-girl" bands such as "Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators" were briefly popular. (In 1925, Lee DeForest filmed ...
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All female bands (commonly known as all women bands, all girl bands, or girl bands) are musical groups in which females sing and play all the instruments.
A distinction is made here with girl groups, in which females are primarily vocalists, though this terminology is not universally followed.
In the Jazz Age of the 1920s, "all-girl" bands such as "Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators" were briefly popular. (In 1925, Lee DeForest filmed Lewis and her band in his short-lived Phonofilm process, in a film now in the Maurice Zouary collection at the Library of Congress.) Blanche Calloway, sister of Cab Calloway, led a male band, Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys, from 1932 to 1939, and Ina Ray Hutton led an all-girl band, the Mellodears, from 1934 to 1939. Author and professor Sherrie Tucker published a book detailing the times and trials of All-Girl Swing bands of the 1940s, titled "Swing Shift", in 2000. (Duke University Press)
Groups composed solely of women began to flourish...
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