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ACADEMIC PAPERS given by Jen Wilson M.Sc. (Econ), Heritage Development Officer for Women in Jazz
Black, Blue and Red: a Feminist Historical Perspective on Gospel Music and the Blues 1860-1930 (presented at Race, Nation and Ethnicity, St. Antony’s College, Oxford 1995)
Gospel to Blues in Wales (presented at 26th International Ballad Conference, University of Wales, Swansea, 1996)
Women in Music: Baroque to Blues (presented at Battersea Arts Centre, 1996)
Race, Class and Gender in Welsh Popular Culture: African-American music in Wales from the 1850s (presented at NAASWCH Conference, University of Rio Grande, Ohio, USA, 1997)
Jazzwomen and the Media (presented at Chard Festival of Women in Music, 1998)
The Devil’s Music in Wales: A socio-cultural Perspective on Race, Class and Gender 1859-1939 as perceived by the Welsh media (presented at Leeds International Jazz Education Conference 2001)
Spies, Traitors and Pacifists: Jessie Donaldson the Swansea Abolitionist and the Cincinnati Trail (presented at NAASWCH Conference, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, 2002)
Black Soul Welsh Hwyl (presented at Overseas Blues: European perspectives on African American Music, University of Gloucestershire, 2004)
Wales and Negro Minstrelsy: a socio-cultural interchange 1830-1910 (presented at Writing Race and Ethnicity: Minority Perspectives on Welsh National Identity, Swansea Institute, university of Wales, 2005)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Syncopated Ladies –British Jazzwomen 1880-1995 and their Influence on Popular Culture (M.Sc Dissertation, University of Wales, 1996) available at £15.
Zen and the Art of Thelonious Monk, in On My life: Women’s Writing from Wales, ed. by Leigh Verrill-Rhys, HONNO, 1989.
1956 And All That: Skiffle Reminiscences The Skiffle Craze, ed. by Mike Dewe, PLANET 1998)
The Devil’s Music, Swansea Clerics and the Women’s Institute: Women’s Jazz Between the Wars , in PLANET The Welsh Internationalist, ed. John Barnie, 1999)
ROOTS: African American Music in Swansea 1850-2001 (ROOTS Exhibition, Swansea Citizenship Millennium Award 2001)
Oh, Didn’t She Ramble! Jen Wilson and the Women in Jazz Archive by Mike Dewe, in PLANET The Welsh Internationalist, ed. John Barnie, 2003
Jessie Donaldson The Swansea Abolitionist, in Minerva Volume X11, the Journal of the Royal Institution of South Wales, ed. Jenny Sabine, 2004.
Redefining the Sixties Myth, in Changing Times: Welsh women writing on the 1950s and 1960s, ed. Dierdre Beddoe, Honno, 2003.
Wales and Negro Minstrelsy: a socio-cultural interchange 1830-1910, in PLANET, The Welsh Internationalist, ed. John Barnie, 2006.