Women & music : a history / edited by Karin Pendle.
| Other author | Pendle, Karin, 1939-2020 editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©1991. |
| Description | x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Ancient and medieval music. Women and music in Greece and Rome / Ann N. Michelini -- Women in music to ca. 1450 / J. Michele Edwards -- The fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Women in music, ca. 1450-1600 / Karin Pendle -- Musical women of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Barbara Garvey Jackson -- The romantic period. European composers and musicians, ca. 1800-1890 / Nancy B. Reich -- European composers and musicians, 1880-1918 / Marcia J. Citron -- Women in American music, 1800-1918 / Adrienne Fried Block, assisted by Nancy Stewart -- Modern music around the world. Contemporary British composers / Catherine Roma -- Composers of modern Europe, Australia, and New Zealand / Robert Zierolf -- Modern music in the Americas. North America since 1920 / J. Michele Edwards, with contributions by Leslie Lassetter -- American popular music / S. Kay Hoke -- African-American women in blues and jazz / Michael J. Budds -- The special roles of women. Women's support and encouragement of music and musicians / Linda Whitesitt -- Women in non-Western music / L. JaFran Jones -- Recovering Jouissance: an introduction to feminist musical aesthetics / Renée Cox. |
| Abstract | This book is a survey of women's activities in music performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the times of the Ancient Greeks to the present, with an emphasis on art music in Europe and the Americas. This book moves beyond Western art music to include chapters on women in popular music and jazz, women as financial supporters of the arts, and women's roles in non-Western music. |
| Local note | Little-298165--305131004337U |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Bibliography note | Discography: pages 343-344. |
| LCCN | 91008413 |
| ISBN | 0253343216 (cloth ; alk. paper) |