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Welcome to Center Stage: Where Women Belong! This program is produced for KSQM-FM, thanks to the generous efforts and approval of station management. Center Stage is a program about women's contributions to recorded music -mostly English language and American oriented, but not exclusively. The project began when, as an announcer, I noticed that there were very few women artists on the playlist. Further checking revealed that while the number of women on the lists were significant (further research revealed a 47/53 split), the number of tracks being played were far less (approximately 5/25 per hour). I mentioned this to the Program Director, and he too was surprised. When I mentioned that I'd like to develop a program to redress this imbalance, he was enthused. And thus, Center Stage was born. I am a historian by training, so my format was obvious to me: I'd research women in recorded music - all genres - and do something about presenting what I found. Sounds relative...