1st Edition
The Woman Composer Creativity and the Gendered Politics of Musical Composition
By Jill Halstead
Copyright 1997
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Unlike previous anthologizing examinations of women and musical composition, this book concentrates on the reasons why there have been, and continue to be, so few women composers. Jill Halstead focuses on the experiences of nine composers born in the twentieth century (Avril Coleridge Taylor, Grace Williams, Elizabeth Maconchy, Minna Keal, Ruth Gipps, Antoinette Kirkwood, Enid Luff, Judith Bailey... Read more
Contents: Psychology; Music and Aptitude; Music and Personality; Education and Social History; Families, Marriage and Motherhood; Education, Opportunities and Professions; The Gendered Politics of Music; Establishment and Anti-Establishment Attitudes; Tradition and Genre; Sex, Gender and Music; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jill Halstead
