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The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music

The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music

  • Editor: Mathias, Rhiannon

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Contents

  • Editor’s Introduction
  • Part I: Challenging Gender Inequalities
  • Sophie Fuller, Grace, Betty, Maude and Me: 30 Years of Fighting for Women Composers
  • Susan Wollenberg, ‘Where Are We Now?’: Teaching and Studying Women Composers post-Citron
  • Helen Elizabeth Davies, ‘Because I’m a Girl’: Exploring Experiences, Practices and Challenges Relating to Gender and Sexuality for Female Musicians in Popular Music Higher Education
  • Emily Doolittle, Composer, Mother
  • Stephen Wilford, ‘The Algerian woman is very strong’: Music, Identity and Gender in Algerian London
  • Valentine Harding, In Search of the Field: Reflections on an Ethnomusicological Project in India
  • Christina Homer, Women’s Work in Ethnomusicology: Alternative Spaces
  • Part II: (Re)Discoveries
  • Zaina Shihabi, A Brief Historical and Sociological Examination of Twentieth-Century Arab Women Composers and Performers in Egypt
  • Sally Macarthur, The Rise and Rise of Women in Australian Composition
  • Susan Clauson-Elliott, Women Composers and the Proms: The First 100 Years (1895 – 1994)
  • Claudia Chibici-Revneanu, Chasing María Teresa Lara: An Autoethnographic Account of Trying to Recuperate the Story of a ‘Lost’ Woman Composer
  • Joanna Schiller-Rydzewska, The Artistic Path and Achievement of Polish Composer Ewa Synowiec
  • Eva M. Maschke, Composer, Performer, Teacher: Jeanne Barbillion (1895-1992) and the Schola Cantorum de Paris
  • Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg, How Theocritus Sang: Eleanor Everest Freer’s Sonnets from the Portuguese
  • Rhian Davies, A Life in Fragments: Morfydd Owen (1891 – 1918)
  • Part III: Aesthetics and Music Creation
  • Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi, Overcoming the ‘Male Gaze’ of Music: Towards Renewed Compositional Strategies
  • Isabel Nogueira, Voices, Sounds and Herstories: Constructing Feminist Research in Experimental Music
  • Angela Elizabeth Slater, Invisible Canons: A Reflective Commentary on the Formation of my Personal Canon of Women Composers
  • Lucy Hollingworth, Storytelling in Autoethnography – The Poetess
  • J. Michele Edwards, Chen Yi: Trauma, Myths, and Representation
  • Laura Dallman, Considering Autonomy and Collaboration in Three Concerti by Jennifer Higdon
  • Ji Yeon Lee, Decoding the Riddle: The Tea-Party Scene in Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland
  • David Forrest, Kate Bush’s Uncanny Harmonic Language
  • Part IV: Performance and Reception
  • Bella Powell, Notions of Virtuosity, Female Accomplishment, and the Violin as Forbidden Instrument in Early-Mid Nineteenth-Century England
  • Nuppu Koivisto, Visitors from ‘the Merry Town by the Danube’: Viennese Ladies’ Orchestras, Public Image and Variety Shows in Finland from 1870 to 1914
  • Maren Bagge, Women Song Composers and the London Ballad Concerts
  • Ivette Janet Céspedes Gómez, Sara Gonzáles: A Different Song About Women
  • Grace Takyi Donkor, Changing Roles of Women in the Gospel Music Performance Space in Ghana
  • Maree Sheehan, Māori Women at the Forefront of Aotearoa/New Zealand Music in the Mid 1980s and Early 1990s
  • Li-ming Pan, The Stereotypical Image and Body Representation of Taiwanese Female Musicians
  • Part V: Opportunities and Leadership in the Music Professions
  • Jessica Duchen, Climb Every Mountain
  • Edwina Wolstencroft, Celebrating Women Composers on BBC Radio 3
  • Miia Laine, Contested Spaces: Gender Dynamics in Independent Radio Stations in London
  • Karlyn King, ‘And her voice is a backwards record’: The Gendering of Phonograph Technology
  • Carolyn Watson, Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Women Conductors, New Trends, Old Challenges
  • Frances Novillo, Personal Reflections on Professional Experience of Women’s Liturgical Leadership as Musicians in the Roman Catholic Church
  • Gabriela Sanchez Diaz, Re-Mapping and Connecting Bodies of Women Musicians
  • Part VI: New Perspectives on Women’s Work in Music
  • Yuemin He, Materiality, Editorship and Canonisation in Wang Duanshu’s Collection of Elegance (1667)
  • Jennifer Cable, Mary Carlisle Howe (1882 – 1964) and Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869–1950): Creating an Arts Culture in America, One Woman at a Time
  • Elina G. Hamilton, Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884 – 1962): Patroness of Music Publishing
  • Lia Lonnert and Helen Davies Mikkelborg, Lady Llanover and the Swedish Connection: A Welsh Musical Legacy
  • Jessica Beck, The Women Musicians of the British Ethical Movement, 1887 – 1927
  • Kirstie Alison Muldoon, The Role of Women in Irish Music Institutions in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Helen C. Thomas, The Beedle-Carter Correspondence: An Analysis of the Cultural Work Undertaken by Maureen Beedle to Promote Elliott Carter’s Music in the UK and Europe