1st Edition
Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939
List of Music Examples.
Preface and Acknowledgements.
List of Abbreviations.
Part 1:The Contested Boundaries of Interwar musiciennes.
Chapter 1: Conservative Politics and Domestic Ideals: The Social Position of musiciennes in Interwar France.
Chapter 2:The Challenge of Professional musiciennes: The Education, Career Opportunities, and Reception of Women Musicians.
Part 2: Women as Composers.
Chapter 3: Early Female Winners of the Prix de Rome: Marguerite Canal and Jeanne Leleu.
Chapter 4: In Les Six: The Case of Germaine Tailleferre.
Chapter 5: Paul Dukas’s Female Composition Students: Elsa Barraine, Yvonne Desportes, and Claude Arrieu.
Part 3: Women as Performers.
Chapter 6:Women Conductors and All-Woman Orchestras.
Chapter 7: On the Concert Platform: Women as Perfomers.
Chapter 8: Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.
Biography
Laura Hamer is Associate Professor of Music at Liverpool Hope University. She is interested in women in music, nineteenth- and earlier twentieth-century music, and criticism and reception studies. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (forthcoming).
