Apryl Berney

Apryl Berney is a lecturer in the Asian American Studies and Radio, Television, Video, and Film Departments at San Jose State University.  She is nearing completion on her dissertation Rock and Roll Finishing School: Sixties Girl Groups and Urban Black Female Youth Culture in Post-World War II America which is based on a series of interviews conducted with over a dozen women who participated in all-female vocal groups, popularly known as girl groups, during the 1950s and 1960s.