Turning the Tables: Celebrating Eight Women Who Invented American Popular Music

Whose faces would you put on a musical Mount Rushmore The question amounts to a facile parlor game, but for the team behind the annual series Turning the Tables an annual collaboration between NPR Music and Lincoln Center dedicated to recalibrating music history so that underrepresented, overlooked and hiddeninplainsight pioneers get their due it opened up a set of possibilities as wide as a whole mountain range. This year, Turning the Tables focused on music s founding mothers, eight women witho