Gendering Musical Modernism

Contents

• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of examples
• Foreword Ian Bent
• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• Note about technical terms
• 1. Cultural analysis and post-tonal music
• 2. The question of climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, third movement
• 3. Inscribing identities in Crawford's String Quartet, fourth movement
• 4. The politics of contour in Crawford's 'Chinaman, Laundryman'
• 5. Gender, sexuality, and performance in Marion Bauer's Toccata
• 6. Musical sublimation in Bauer's 'Chromaticon'
• 7. 'A Woman's Way of Responding to the World': Miriam Gideon's 'Night is My Sister'
• 8. Feminist agency in Gideon's 'Esther'
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index.