Women & Music : A History / edited by Karin Pendle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pendle, Karin, 1939-2020.

Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--History and criticism.

Women composers.

Women musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations Used in This Book; I. Recovering Jouissance: Feminist Aesthetics and Music; II. Women and Music in Ancient Greece and Rome; III. Women in Music to ca. 1450; IV. Musical Women in Early Modern Europe; V. Musical Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; VI. European Composers and Musicians, ca. 1800-1890; VII. European Composers and Musicians, 1880-1918; VIII. Women in American Music, 1800-1918; IX. Contemporary British Composers; X. Composers of Modern Europe, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand; XI. North America since 1920

XII. American Popular MusicIntroduction; XIII. Women and Music around the Mediterranean; XIV. Women in the World of Music: Latin America, NativeAmerica, and the African Diaspora; XV. American Women in Blues and Jazz; XVI. Women's Support and Encouragement of Musicand Musicians; GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613673565

9781280696602

1280696605

9780253115034

0253115035

OCLC:

796384044