1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership The Nineteenth Century and Beyond
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women’s participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present. Global in scope, with contributors from over 30 countries, this book reveals the wide range of ways in which women have taken leadership roles across musical genres and contexts, uncovers new histories, and considers the challenges that women continue to face.
The volume addresses timely issues in the era of movements such as #MeToo, digital feminisms, and the resurgent global feminist movements. Its multidisciplinary chapters represent a wide range of methodologies, with historical musicology, models drawn from ethnomusicology, analysis, philosophy, cultural studies, and practice research all informing the book. Including almost fifty chapters written by both researchers and practitioners in the field, it covers themes including:
• Historical Perspectives
• Conductors and Impresarios
• Women’s Practices in Music Education
• Performance and the Music Industries
• Faith and Spirituality: Worship and Sacred Musical Practices
• Advocacy: Collectives and Grass-Roots Activism
The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond draws together both new perspectives from early career researchers and contributions from established world-leading scholars. It promotes academic-practitioner dialogue by bringing contributions from both fields together, represents alternative models of women in musical leadership, celebrates the work done by women leaders, and shows how women challenge accepted notions of gendered roles. Offering a comprehensive overview of the varied forms of women’s musical leadership, this volume is a vital resource for all scholars of women in music, as well as professionals in the music industries and music education today.
1 Defining, Surveying and Interrogating Women in Musical Leadership
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors
PART I
Historical Perspectives: Historical Perspectives: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors
2 Augusta Hervey: Lady of ‘The Ladies’ Guitar and Mandoline Band’
Sarah Clarke
3 Examining the Birth of Guitar Societies in America: From Women Guitarists’ Advocacy to Philanthropy
Kathy Acosta Zavala
4 ‘Scatter[ing] All Prejudices to the Winds’: Wilma Norman-Neruda and Camilla Urso as Leaders of the Nineteenth-Century String Quartet
Bella Powell
5 Surviving the Everyday: Gendered Violence, Patriarchal Power Structures, and Strategies of Resistance in Late Nineteenth-Century Ladies’ Orchestras
Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik
6 Sites of Empowerment: Fin-de-Siècle Salon Culture and the Music of Cécile Chaminade
Ann Grindley
‘7 Une Belle Manifestation Féministe’: The Formation of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique
Laura Hamer
8 The Forgotten Woman: Joan Trimble (1915–2000) and the Canon of Twentieth-Century Irish Art Song
Orla Shannon
9 ‘There is No Gate, No Lock, No Bolt That You Can Set Upon the Freedom of My Mind’: Being a Woman in Franco’s Prisons: A Glimpse Through Music
Elsa Calero-Carramolino
PART II
Conductors and Impresarios: Conductors and Impresarios: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors
10 Lilian Baylis: The Visionary Impresario
Kenneth Baird, with Laura Hamer
11 Musical Ghosts: Re-Instating Elsie April in Historical Narratives of the British Musical
Arianne Johnson Quinn and Sarah K. Whitfield
12 ‘She is a Degenerate Cocaine Addict’: Emma Carelli, A Diva- Impresario Facing Her Opponents
Matteo Paoletti
13 Henriette Renié as a Harp Ensemble Leader, Choral and Orchestral Conductor, and Impresario in the Light of Archival Sources
Temina Cadi Sulumuna
14 An American Female Violinist and Conductor in Paris: "La Kazanova et Ses Tziganes" (1933–1938)
Jean-Christophe Brange. Translation: Kiefer Oakley
15 Edis de Philippe, the Israel National Opera (INO), and the Politics of Music
Kira Alvarez
16 Odaline de la Martinez – Conductor, Composer, Entrepreneur, Leader
Carola Darwin
PART III
Women’s Practices in Music Education: Women’s Practices in Music Education: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors
17 Embodying the Rhythm of Self in Leadership
Judith Francois
18 Learning to Coach, Coaching to Lead
Jane Booth and Jane Cook
19 The Work that (Irish) Women Do: Reframing Leadership in a British University Ceílí Band
Anne-Marie Beaumont
20 ‘It’s Not About Me!’: The Life a nd Leadership of Cathi Leibinger
Margaret J. Flood
21 Addressing Cyclic Gender Constructs in Music and Music Education in the UK
Abigail Bruce and Chamari Wedamulla
22 Pipeline to the Podium: Can Gender Differentiated Pedagogical Approaches: Address the Underrepresentation of Women Conductors?
Katherine Hanckel
23 Women Leading Change in Assessment Calibration
Michelle Phillips
24 Innovation and Leadership in Group Teaching Across the Lifespan: Three Case Studies
Cynthia Stephens-Himonides, Margaret Young, and Melanie Bowes
25 Training Early Career Women Teachers in Choral Leadership: Building a Community of Practice
Rebecca Berkley
PART IV
Performance and the Music Industries: Performance and the Music Industries: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors
26 Women’s Musical Leadership in Music Industries and Education
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors, with Alice Farnham, Katy Hamilton, Emma Haughton, Jessy McCabe, Sarah MacDonald, Davina Vencatasamy and Eleanor Wilson
27 Preparing Women for Musical Leadership: Student and Faculty Voices
Allison Gurland, Elizabeth Markow, Rebekah E. Moore, and Shannon Pires
28 Women Leading Opera in the UK: An Ethnographic Study of Innovation
Elizabeth Etches Jones
29 Diversity in Italian Music Programming: Symphonic and Chamber Music Programming in Milan
Valentina Bertolani and Luisa Santacesaria
30 Beyond Music Workshops: A Composer and a Community
Jenni Roditi
PART V
Faith and Spirituality: Worship and Sacred Musical Practices: Faith and Spirituality: Worship and Sacred Musical Practices: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors
31 Leading the Way: Victorian Premonitions for the Female Voice in Anglo-Jewish Music
Danielle Padley
32 Sisters in Song: Women Cantors and Musical Creativity in Progressive Jewish Worship
Rachel Adelstein
33 Maruja Hinestrosa: Faith and Introspection in a Colombian Composer
Luis Gabriel Mesa Martínez
34 Undoing Sanctity: Imee Ooi’s Popular Contemporary Buddhist Music
Fung Ying Loo and Fung Chiat Loo
35 The Female Role in Sacred Musical Practices in Shīʿah Rituals in Iraq
Ahmed Al-Badr
36 A Muslim in a Baptist Church: Discovering My Calling as a Sacred Musician
Theresa Parvin Steward
37 Power, Pop, and Performance
Major John Martin
38 ‘No Lady Need Apply’: Women and Girls in Cathedral Musical Leadership
Enya HL Doyle and Katherine Dienes-Williams
39 Unsuitable for Evensong: Examining Exclusion and Diversity in the Repertoire of Oxford Collegiate Anglican Choirs
Caroline Lesemann-Elliott
PART VI
Advocacy: Advocacy: Collectives, and Grassroots Activism: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors
40 Power, Care and the Paradox of Leadership: A Kabbalistic Enquiry
Nicky Gluch
41 Toppling Systemic Exclusion: Women’s Roles in a Century of Jazz
Tahira Clayton, Amanda Ekery, and Hannah Grantham
42 Mapping the Boundaries: Encountering Women’s Creativity in the Salon602
Briony Cox-Williams
43 Women’s Leadership Within Latin American Musicians’ Unions: Opportunities and Challenges
Ananay Aguilar
44 From ‘Women’s Revolutions Per Minute’, Through ‘Taking Race Live’ to Co-Founding ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Studies Network’: Supporting, Developing and Establishing Collaborative Networks for Change
Helen Julia Minors
45 Women’s Revolutions Per Minute: Access to, Distribution, and Recognition of Music by Women
Hilary Friend with Helen Julia Minors
46 Gender Relations in New Music (GRiNM) and Yorkshire Sound Women Network (YSWN): Case Studies in Activism and Organisation for Change
Stellan Veloce, Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell, Heidi Johnson, Abi Bliss, and Eddie Dobson
47 Sounding the Feminists: Campaigning for Institutional Change to Support Women in Music in Contemporary Ireland1
Laura Watson
Biography
Laura Hamer is Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University.
Helen Julia Minors is Professor and Head of the School of the Arts at York St John University.
The Routledge Global Companion to Women and Musical Leadership brings a fresh perspective to the growing body of research about women and music through its focus on leadership, and in fact it is the first volume of research dedicated to this topic. This spotlight on leadership allows the authors to articulate the broader effects of strategies to remedy the underrepresentation of women in many areas of musical activity and to examine these issues at an institutional level. This edited collection looks at women exercising leadership in many areas of music and from many different angles. The volume is strengthened by its wide-ranging dimensions, from the sixty-nine authors coming from throughout Europe as well as North and South America, Australia, and South Asia to the diversity of topics as well as varied methodologies utilized. The issues addressed move well beyond those most frequently addressed, e.g., composers, conductors, and performers to include women in faith and spiritual leadership roles (Jewish, Anglican, and different strands of spiritual music in India) and to advocacy and activism in music. From my outlook as both a musicologist and conductor—someone who has endeavored throughout my career to let each facet inform the other aspect of my work—this collection pays generous attention to both lived experiences and theoretical foundations. As someone who was intrigued by the conference, which fostered this volume, I look forward to its publication and to reading these new, fresh ideas.
J. Michele Edwards, Professor Emerita of Music, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, USA
