Women, music, culture
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Julie C. Dunbar (Edgewood College)
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781138814646; 9781138814653
Subjects: Gender identity in music; Music by women composers; Feminism and music; Textbooks; Women musicians; History and criticism; Social aspects; Music; Women composers
Notes: "@ Companion website"--Back cover.

Companion website features streamed audio tracks to help reinforce key figures and terms.

"First edition published 2011 by Taylor & Francis"--Title page verso.

"Glossary": pages 388-395.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: part I. Telling musical stories : missing voices in the documentation of musical traditions. Reflections on "deep listening" : exploring music in context; title: Focus on feminism: Defining feminism : nineteenth-century roots and women's suffrage; title: Medieval liturgical roots and the documentation of the Western canon; title: Women in "world" music : an expanded view of global narratives; title: Focus on feminism: Global feminism and the work of the United Nations; title: part II. Restricted domains : gender spheres in art music. Court performers of Japan, India, and Europe : freedom and restriction; title: Baroque keyboard and vocal genres : gender roles in musical families; title: Eighteenth-century Classicism : revisiting Vienna; title: Romantic-era performer/composers : walking the public/private line; title: Focus on feminism: From first wave to second wave; title: part III. Visual images in an aural world. American popular music : 1895-1945; title: Empowered voices in the public eye : women of gospel and blues; title: Visual media and the marketing of women performers; title: Focus on feminism: Third wave feminist diversity; title: part IV. A time of change : the impact of education on women's art music activity. Changing gender roles : from nineteenth-century opera to the modern musical; title: Focus on feminism: Voice of authority; title: Segregation and integration : instrumental ensembles from 1900 to the present; title: Large-scale works and experimental voices; title: part V. No longer "One of the boys." Focus on feminism: Feminist pedagogy; title: Instrumental to jazz : the forgotten role of women; title: Technology in the hands of women : art music, multimedia, and popular music; title: A new message : taking charge in the mass music market; title: Focus on feminism: Do we still need feminism?