Full Description
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
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Feminist Aesthetics
1. Recovering Jouissance: Feminist Aesthetics and Music / Renée Cox Lorraine
Ancient and Medieval Music
2. Women and Music in Greece and Rome / Ann N. Michelini
3. Women in Music to ca. 1450 / J. Michele Edwards
The Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries
4. Musical Women in Early Modern Europe / Karin Pendle
5. Musical Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Barbara Garvey Jackson
The Nineteenth Century and the Great War
6. European Composers and Musicians, ca. 1800-1890 / Nancy B. Reich
7. European Composers and Musicians, 1880-1918 / Marcia Citron
8. Women in American Music, 1800-1918 / Adrienne Fried Block, assisted by Nancy Stewart
Modern Music around the Globe
9. Contemporary British Composers / Catherine Roma
10. Composers of Modern Europe, the Near East, Australia, and New Zealand / Karin Pendle and Robert Zierolf
11. North America since ca. 1920 / J. Michele Edwards, with contributions by Leslie Lassetter
12. American Popular Music in the Twentieth Century / S. Kay Hoke
Women in the World of Music: Three Approaches
Introduction / Robert Whitney Templeman
13. Women and Music around the Mediterranean / L. JaFran Jones
14. Women in the World of Music: Latin America / Robert Whitney Templeman
15. American Women in Blues and Jazz / Michael J. Budds
The Special Roles of Women
16. Women's Support and Encouragement of Music and Musicians / Linda Whitesitt
General Bibliography
Recordings
Contributors
Index
