1st Edition

Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies A Teacher's Guide

By Jacqueline Warwick Copyright 2023
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Teacher’s Guide serves as a guide to the professor tasked with teaching music to undergraduates, with a focus on gender. Although the notion of feminist approaches in musicology was once greeted with scorn, the last 40 years have seen a seismic shift across music studies, to the point that classes on women and music are now commonplace in most... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction and Rationale

Sample lesson

1. What Does Music Have to Do with Gender or Sexuality?

Further Reading

I. Networks:

Overview of Methods

Sample lessons

2.Salonnières

3. African American Women’s Networks in the 1930s

4. Womyn’s Music Networks

Assignment and Discussion Prompts

Further Reading

 

II. Composition:

Overview of Methods

Sample lessons

5. Symphonie fantastique: Madness and Masculinity

6. Blues Queens and their Inheritors

7. Motherhood

Assignment and Discussion Prompts

Further Reading

III. Performance:

Overview of Methods

Sample lessons

8. Genderbending Voices

9. Swan Lake

10. Disney Musicals and Compulsory Heterosexuality

Assignment and Discussion Prompts

Further Reading

IV. Reception:

Overview of Methods

Sample lessons

11. Lisztomania and its Echoes

12. Girlhood and Pop Music

13. Music and Sports

Assignment and Discussion Prompts

Further Reading

Biography

Jacqueline Warwick is Professor of Musicology and Gender & Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University in Canada.