1st Edition

Women's Music for the Screen Diverse Narratives in Sound

Edited By Felicity Wilcox Copyright 2022
240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Women’ s Music for the Screen: Diverse Narratives in Sound shines a long-overdue light on the works and lives of female-identifying screen composers. Bringing together composer profiles, exclusive interview excerpts, and industry case studies, this volume showcases their achievements and reflects on the systemic gender biases women have faced in an industry that has long excluded them. Across... Read more

Introduction: ‘We need to hear your voices’ (Felicity Wilcox) / Chapter 1: Waiting for a break: Barriers to career progression in a man’s industry (Catherine Strong and Fabian Cannizzo) / Chapter 2: A universal mind: The film music of Bebe Barron (Reba A. Wissner) / Chapter 3: Delia Derbyshire: An examination of selected film and television scores (Louis Niebur) / Chapter 4: Wendy Carlos: Switched-on film scoring (James Deaville) / Chapter 5: Hidden in the mainstream: Shirley Walker’s musical contributions to feature films and animated television series (Philip Hayward and Matt Hill) / Chapter 6: Lolita Ritmanis: Heritage and Hollywood (Jessica Getman) / Chapter 7: Laura Karpman: Compositional direction and purpose (Charles MacInnes) / Chapter 8: Anne Dudley: The art of music and diegesis (Paul Hegarty) / Chapter 9: Rachel Portman: Midscale magic and Hollywood storytelling (Lindsay Coleman) / Chapter 10: Lisa Gerrard: Songs from the heart (Felicity Wilcox) / Chapter 11: The film scores of Mica Levi: Femininity in flux (Caitríona Walsh) / Chapter 12: Ascendancy: The rise and recognition of Hildur Guðnadóttir as a screen composer (Philip Hayward and Matt Hill) / Chapter 13: Winifred Phillips: Emotional resonance and social eloquence (Iain Hart) / Chapter 14: Heroines unsung: The (mostly) untold story of female Japanese game music composers (Melanie Fritsch) / Chapter 15: Composing women of Australian television (Felicity Wilcox)

Biography

Felicity Wilcox is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Sound Design at the University of Technology Sydney.