Prior to this, in the 1970s, musicologists were beginning to discover women composers and performers, and had begun to review concepts of canon, genius, genre and periodization from a feminist perspective.
Antes diso, na década de 1970, os musicólogos estaban comezando a descubrir mulleres compositoras e intérpretes e a recibir conceptos de canon, xenio, xénero e periodización a partir dunha perspectiva feminista.