Global Perspectives on Women Pianists

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Joe

Contributor:

Loges, Natasha

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women pianists.

Piano--History.

Piano.

Women in music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2026.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Music Examples

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On the Global Trail of Women Pianists

Part 1: East Asia to Africa

1 Re-Hearing the First Generation of Twentieth-Century Chinese Women Pianists

2 'Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky': Maoist Feminism and Class Politics in the Career of Gu Shengyin

3 The Musical Fusion of East and West: Deh-Fang Swen Lai's Piano Works

4 Shifting Meanings of Piano Playing for Women in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey

5 A Tale of Two Pianos: Women Egyptian Pianists in the Twentieth Century

Part 2: Russia to Eastern Europe

6 Mapping Russian Female Pianists (1850-1917): From Sabinina to Scriabina

7 On the Move: Women Pianist-Composers from Finland and Estonia from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century

8 (Un)silencing Czech Nineteenth-Century Women Pianists

9 The 'Misses' of the Romanian Piano Scene: Threads of the German Pedagogical Tradition in Bucharest

Part 3: Across Western Europe

10 Delphine von Schauroth, Class, and the Path of the Artist

11 Women Recording Piano Rolls: A Case Study on Philipps Duca

12 Narrating Women Pianists' Careers in Interwar France through Simone Plé's Le Rôle des femmes dans les carrières musicales

13 The Transatlantic Lives of Gaby Casadesus

14 Harriet Cohen's British-Jewish Identity on the International Stage

Part 4: South to North America

15 'Make Way, I'm Coming Through': The Legacy of Chiquinha Gonzaga

16 Marie Majoie Hajary: A Surinamese Family History as Podium Identity and Source of Inspiration

17 Rosa García Ascot: Spanish Pianist-Composer and Exile

18 Visibility, Historiography, and Gender: Gwendolyn Koldofsky's Impact on North American Song Accompaniment

19 Flourishing Musical Lives and the Impact of Enduring Relationships: Grete Sultan and Tui St. George Tucker

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Davies, Joe Global Perspectives on Women Pianists

ISBN:

9781837653966

1837653968

9781837653973

1837653976

Publisher Number:

90103976820

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