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Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music

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Feminist Theories and/of music

Banks, Paul. "Images of the Self: Duke Bluebeard's Castle." In The Stage Works of Bela Bartok, 7-12. New York: Riverrun, 1991.

Bergeron, Katherine, and Philip V. Bohlman., eds. Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Bergeron, Katherine. "Prologue: Disciplining Music." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Bergeron, Katherine. "A Lifetime of Chants." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Citron, Marcia J. "Feminist Approaches to Musicology." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 15-34. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Cook, Susan, and Judy Tsou. "Introduction: 'Bright Cecilia.'" In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 1-14. Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Cook, Susan C. and Judy S. Tsou, ed. Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music. Foreword by Susan McClary, and Introduction by Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tou. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Cox, Renee. "A Gynecentric Aesthetic." Hypatia 5/2 (1990), 43-62.

Cox, Renee. "Are Musical Works Discovered?" The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 367-374.

Cox, Renee. "Recovering Jouissance: Feminist Aesthetics and Music." In Women and Music: A History, ed. Karin Pendle, 331-340. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "Gender and the Cultural Work of a Classical Music Performance." repercussions 3/1 (1994), 77-110.

Detels, Claire. "Soft Boundaries and Relatedness: Paradigm for a Postmodern Feminist Musical Aesthetics." Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 19/2 (1992), 184-204.

Dobie, Elizabeth Ann. "Interweaving Feminist Frameworks." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48/4 (1990), 381-394.

Dunn, Leslie C. and Nancy A. Jones, ed. Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Elliott, C.H. "Race and Gender as Factors in Judgments of Music Performance." CRME 127 (1995-1996), 50-56.

Engh, Barbara. "Adorno and the Sirens: Tele-phono-graphic Bodies." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 120-138. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Engh, Barbara. "Loving It: Music and Criticism in Roland Barthes." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 66-82. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Erlmann, Veit. "The Politics and Aesthetics of Transnational Musics." The World of Music: Journal of the International Institute for Traditional Music 35/2 (1993), 3-15.

Escot, Pozzi. "Streams and Dreams: "O virtued wisdom which encircles circles." Sonus 13/2 (1993), 23-44b.

Fuller, Sophie. "Dead White Men in Wigs: Women and Classical Music." In Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music, ed. Sarah Cooper. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Gates, Eugene. "The Female Voice: Sexual Aesthetics Revisited." Journal of Aesthetic Education 22/4 (1988), 59-68.

Giles, Jennifer and John Shepherd. "Theorizing Music's Affective Power." Ethnomusicology in Canada, ed. Robert Witmer, 19. Toronto: Institute for Canadian Music, 1990.

Gramit, David. "Constructing a Victorian Schubert: Music, Biography, and Cultural Values." Nineteenth-Century Music 17/1 (1993), 65-78.

Gramit, David. "Schubert's Wanderers and the Autonomous Lied." Journal of Musicological Research 14 (1995), 156ff.

Greenhill, P. "Neither a Man Nor a Maid: Sexualities and Gendered Meanings in Cross-Dressing Ballads." Journal of American Folklore 108 (1995), 156-77.

Grennan, Eamon. "The Women's Voices in Othello: Speech, Song, Silence." Shakespeare Quarterly 38 (Autumn 1987), 275-303.

Henderson, Moya. "Music as Lifestyle, Politics as Music." CMR 11 (1994), 140ff.

Herndon, Marcia and Susanne Ziegler, eds. Music, Gender, and Culture. Wilhelmshaven: F. Noetzel; New York: Peters, 1990. "International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Music and Gender."

Jacobs, Jo Ellen. "Identifying Musical Works of Art." Journal of Aesthetic Education 24/4 (1990), 75-85.

Kilmister, Sally. "Aesthetics and Music: The Appropriation of the Other." Women: A Cultural Review 3/1 (Summer 1992), 30-39.

Koskoff, Ellen. "Gender, Power and Music." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 769-788.

Koskoff, Ellen. "When Women Play: The Relationship Between Musical Instruments and Gender Style." Canadian University Music Review 16/1 (1995), 114-127.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Kramer, Lawrence. "Carnaval, Cross-Dressing, and the Woman in the Mirror." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 305-325. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Lawrence, Amy. "Staring the camera down: direct address and women's voices." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 166-178. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Leppert, Richard and Susan McClary, eds. Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

MacArthur, Sally. "Writing "Difference" into the Musical Body." Music in New Zealand 21 (1993), 10-13, 104.

Maus, Fred Everett. "Hanslick's Animism." Journal of Musicology 10/3 (1992), 273-292. [Hanslick, eroticism, aesthetics, animism]

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. [cf. book reviews]

McClary, Susan and Robert Walser. "Theorizing the Body in African-American Music." Black Music Research Journal 14/1 (Spring 1994), 75-84.

Mohammed, Patricia. "Reflections on the Women's Movement in Trinidad: Calypsos, Changes and Sexual Violence." Feminist Review 38 (Summer 1991), 33-47.

Monson, Ingrid. "Music and the Anthropology of Gender and Cultural Identity." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 24-32.

Pegley, Karen and Virginia Caputo. "Growing Up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings." repercussions 1-1 (1992), 65-80. [Diamond, identity, male gaze]

Rabinowitz, Peter J. "'With Our Own Dominant Passions': Gottschalk, Gender, and the Power of Listening." Nineteenth-Century Music16/3 (1993), 242-252. [Gottschalk, reception, interpretation]

Rahn, John. "Centers--Dissenters: Music, Religion, and Politics." Current Musicology 56 (1994), 72-85.

Rebollo-Sborgi, Francesca. "Decentering the Feminist Self." repercussions 1/2 (1992), 26-51.

Robertson, Carol E. "Power and Gender in the Musical Experiences of Women." In Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed. Ellen Koskoff, 225-244. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Rorem, Ned: "Ladies' Music." In Settling the Score: Essays on Music, 330-338. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1989.

Rycenga, Jennifer. "The Uncovering of Ontology in Music: Speculative and Conceptual Feminist Music." repercussions 3/1 (1994), 22-46.

Said, Edward W. "Music." The Nation 244 (Feb. 7 1987), 158-60.

Samuel, Rhian. "Feminist Musicology: Endings or Beginnings?" Women: A Cultural Review 3/1 (Summer 1992), 65-69.

Sarkissian, Margaret. "Gender and music." In Ethnomusicology. I: An introduction, 337-348. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Segal, Charles. "The Gorgon and the Nightingale: The Voice of Female Lament and Pindar's Twelfth Pythian Ode." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 17-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Smith, Catherine Parsons. "'A Distinguishing Virility': Feminism and Modernism in American Art Music." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 90-106. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Solie, Ruth A., ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. With an Introduction by Ruth Solie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. [cf. book reviews]

Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. Deconstructive Variations: Music and Reason in Western Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Subotnik, Rose Rosengard. "Toward a Deconstruction of Structural Listening: A Critique of Schoenberg, Adorno, and Stravinsky." In Explorations in Music, The Arts, and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer, ed. Eugene Narmour and Ruth A. Solie, 87-122. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1988.

Tick, Judith. "Charles Ives and Gender Ideology." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 83-106. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Treadwell, Nina. "The Performance of Gender in Cavalieri/Guidiccioni's Ballo 'O che nuovo miracolo' (1589)." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 55-70.

White, Hayden. "Commentary: Form, Reference, and Ideology in Musical Discourse." In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, ed. Steven Paul Scher, 288-319. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Music Theory and Feminist Theory

Boretz, Benjamin. " /music/consciousness/gender [videorecording]." Realized by Benjamin Boretz and Noel Bush; produced by Mary Lee Roberts. Red Hook, NY : Open Space, 1996. annotation

Burnham, Scott. "A.B. Marx and the Gendering of Sonata Form." In Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism, ed. Ian Bent, 163-186. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Code, David Loberg. "[not equal]: Feminism, Tuning, and Theory Pedagogy." Theory and Practice 20 (1995), 1-12.

Cook, Nicholas. "Music Theory and the Postmodern Muse: An Afterword." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth Marvin and Richard Hermann, 422 ff. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 1995.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "Feminist Theory, Music Theory, and the Mind/Body Problem." Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (1994), 8-27. [music theory, embodiment, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, J.S. Bach]

Detels, Claire. "Autonomist/Formalist Aesthetics, Music Theory, and the Feminist Paradigm of Soft Boundaries." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52/1 (1994), 113-126.

Dusman, Linda. "Unheard of: Music as Performance and the Reception of the New." Perspectives of New Music 32/2(1994), 130-146. [music theory][cf. McClary]

Frey, Janice Mowery. "Elaine Barkin: Active Participant (Feminist Theory Forum)." Perspectives of New Music 31/2 (1993), 252-63.

Gans, Eric. "Remarks on Originary Feminism." Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (Winter 1994), 86-88.

Guck, Marion. "Music Loving, Or the Relationship with the Musical Work." Music Theory Online 2/2 (1996).

Guck, Marion. "Varese Bound." Perspectives of New Music 30/2 (1992), 244-273.

Guck, Marion. "A Woman's (Theoretical) Work." Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (1994), 28-43. [Maus, Boretz]

Hisama, Ellie. "Gender, Politics, and Modernist Music: Analyses of Five Compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer (1887-1955)." Ph.D dissertation, City University of New York, 1996.

Kielian-Gilbert, Marianne. "Of Poetics and Poiesis, Pleasure and Politics--Music Theory and Modes of the Feminine." Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (1994), 44-67.

Killam, Rosemary. "Feminist Theories--Process and Continuation." Music Theory Online 0/8(1994). [Dolly Parton, Libby Larsen, Joan Tower, music theory]

Killam, Rosemary N. "Women Working: An Alternative to Gans (Feminist Theory Forum)." Perspectives of New Music 31.2 (1993), 230-51.

Killam, Rosemary N. "Writing Music Culture for Calamity Jane, Water, and Other Dangerous Women (with minimal apologies to Clifford and Lakoff)." Perspectives of New Music 32/2 (1994), 194-198.

Lewin, David. "Women's Voices and the Fundamental Bass." Journal of Musicology 10/4 (Fall 1992), 464-82.

Lorraine, Renee. "Musicology and Theory: Where It's Been, Where It's Going." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51 (1993), 235-244.

Marvin, Elizabeth and Richard Hermann. Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 1995.

Maus, Fred Everett. "Masculine Discourse in Music Theory." Perspectives of New Music 31/2 (1993), 264-293.

McClary, Susan. "Paradigm Dissonances: Music Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Criticism." Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (1994), 68-85.

McClary, Susan. "Response to Linda Dusman." Perspectives of New Music 32/2(1994), 148-153. [cf. Dusman]

Oliveros, Pauline and Fred Maus. "A Conversation about Feminism and Music." Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (1994), 174-193.

Snarrenberg, Robert, Nadine Hubbs and Mauro Botelho. "Editorial: Is There Feminist Music Theory?" In Theory Only 9/8 (1987), 3-4.

Van den Toorn, Pieter C. Music, Politics, and the Academy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

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Issues in Feminist Theory and Music

Agawu, Kofi. "Analyzing Music Under the New Musicological Regime." Music Theory Online 2/4 (1996).

Agawu, Victor Kofi. "Schubert's Sexuality: A Prescription for Analysis?" Nineteenth-Century Music 17/1 (1993), 79-82. [Solomon, Steblin, Schubert]

Bowers, Jane M. "Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I." College Music Symposium 29 (1989), 81-92.

Bowers, Jane M. "Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: II." College Music Symposium 30/1 (1990), 1-13.

Chmaj, Betty E. "Reality is on Our Side: Research on Gender in American Music." The Sonneck Society for American Music bulletin 16/2 (1990), 53-58.

Citron, Marcia J. "Gender and the Field of Musicology." Current Musicology 53 (1993), 66-75.

Cook, Susan C. "Women, Women's Studies, Music, and Musicology: Issues of Pedagogy and Scholarship." College Music Symposium 29 (1989), 93-100.

Edwards, J. Michele. Music: Discipline Analysis. Publication of the Women in the Curriculum series, ed. Elaine Hedges. Baltimore: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, Institute for Teaching and Research on Women, Towson University, 1997. [curriculum transformation, bibliography, electronic resources] annotation

Fuller, Sophie. "New Perspectives: Feminism and Music." In Analysing Performance: A Critical Reader, ed. Patrick Campbell. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996.

McClary, Susan. "Reshaping a Discipline: Musicology and Feminism in the 1990s." Feminist Studies 19 (Summer 1993), 399-423.

McClary, Susan. "Music and Sexuality: On the Steblin/Solomon Debate." Nineteenth-Century Music 17/1 (1993), 83-88. [Schubert, Steblin, Solomon]

McClary, Susan. "Towards a Feminist Criticism of Music." Canadian University Music Review 10/2 (1990), 9-18.

Schwarz, David. "Music and Disciplinarity." Stanford Humanities Review 3/2 (1993), 179-186.

Shapiro, Anne Dhu. "Music and Gender: Another Look." Sonneck Society Bulletin XVII(2), pp. 58-60. annotation

Shapiro, Anne Dhu. "A Critique of Current Research on Music and Gender." The World of Music 33/2 (1991), 5-13.

Solie, Ruth A. "Defining Feminism: Conundrums, Contexts, Communities." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 1-12.

Solomon, Maynard. "Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini." Nineteenth-Century Music 12 (Spring 1989), 193-208.

Solomon, Maynard. "Schubert: Some Consequences of Nostalgia." Nineteenth-Century Music 17/1 (1993), 34-46.

Webster, James. "Music, Pathology, Sexuality, Beethoven, Schubert." Nineteenth-Century Music 17/1 (1993), 89-93. [persona, Schubert, Beethoven]

Wolff, Janet. "Death and the Maiden: Does Semiotics Justify Murder?" Critical Quarterly 35 (Summer 1993), 38-44.

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Basic Resources

Historical Texts/Sources Bibliographies Anthologies and Sources for Music

Historical Texts/Sources

Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Westport: Greenwood, 1980.

Baldauf-Berdes, Jane L. Women Musicians of Venice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Bogin, Meg. The Women Troubadours. New York: Norton, 1980.

Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music : The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. [cf. book reviews]

Cohen, Aaron I., ed. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd ed. Westport: Greenwood, 1987. [cf. book reviews]

Drinker, Sophie Hutchinson, 1888-1968. Music and women: The Story of Women in their Relation to Music. New York: Coward McCann, 1948; reprint, Zenger Publishing Company, 1977; reprint, with a Preface by Elizabeth Wood, and Afterword by Ruth A. Solie. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995. [Drinker, Solie, Wood]

Ebel, Otto. Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Woman's Work in Music. New York: F.H. Chandler, 1902.

Elson, Arthur. Woman's Work in Music. Boston, 1904.

Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States 1629- present. London; San Francisco: Pandora, 1994.

Green, Mildred Denby. Black Women Composers: A Genesis. Boston: Twayne, 1983.

Hixon, Don L. and Don A. Hennessee. Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography(2 vols.), 2nd. ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.

Jezic, Diane Peacock. Women composers: The Lost Tradition Found. With a Foreword by Elizabeth Wood. New York: Feminist Press, 1988; 2nd ed. prepared by Elizabeth Wood. New York: The Feminist Press, 1994.

LePage, Jane Weiner. Women Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the Twentieth Century: Selected Biographies. 3 volumes. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1980, 1983, 1985.

Loesser, Arthur. Men, Women and Pianos. London: Victor Gollancz, 1955.

Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present. Rev. ed, Northeastern University Press, 1996. [cf. book reviews]

Pendle, Karin, ed. Women & Music: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. [cf. book reviews]

Includes:

Michelini, Ann N. "Women and Music in Greece and Rome." 3-7
Edwards, J. Michele. "Women in Music to ca. 1450." 8-28.
Pendle, Karin. "Women in Music, ca. 1450-1600." 31-53
Jackson, Barbara Garvey. "Musical Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." 54-94.
Reich, Nancy B. "European Composers and Musicians, ca. 1800-1890."
Citron, Marica J. "European Composers and Musicians, 1880-1918."
Block, Adrienne Fried, assisted by Nancy Stewart. "Women in American Music, 1800-1918." 142-172.
Roma, Catherine. "Contemporary British composers."
Zierolf, Robert. "Composers of Modern Europe, Australia, and New Zealand." 187-207.
Edwards, J. Michele, with contributions by Leslie Lassetter. "North America since 1920."
Hoke, S. Kay. "American Popular Music." 258-281.
Budds, Michael J. "African-American Women in Blues and Jazz."
Whitesitt, Linda. "Women's Support and Encouragement of Music and Musicians." 301-313.
Jones, L. JaFran. "Women in Non-Western Music." 314-330
Cox, Renee. "Recovering Jouissance: An Introduction to Feminist Musical Aesthetics."

Sadie, Julie Anne & Rhian Samuel, eds. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Schleifer, Martha Furman and Sylvia Glickman. Women Composers: Music through the Ages. Vols. I and II. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996.

Tick, Judith. American Women Composers Before 1870. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

Upton, George P. Woman in Music. Sixth Ed. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1899.

Zaimont, Judith Lang, ed. The Musical Woman: An International Perspective. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984, 1984, 1991 (three volumes).


Bibliographies

Block, Adrienne Fried and Carol Neuls-Bates. Women in American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 1979.

Bowers, Jane and Urban Bareis. "Bibliography on Music and Gender -- Women in Music." The World of Music 33/2 (1991), 65-103.

Edwards, J. Michele. Music: Discipline Analysis. Publication of the Women in the Curriculum series, ed. Elaine Hedges. Baltimore: National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women, Institute for Teaching and Research on Women, Towson University, 1997. [curriculum transformation, bibliography, electronic resources] annotation

Ericson, Margaret. Women and Music: A Selective Annotated Bibliography on Women and Gender Issues in Music, 1987-1992. New York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1996. annotation

LeFanu, Nicola and Sarah Fuller. "A Select Bibliography of English Language Writing on Women and Music." CONT MUS R 11 (1994), 335ff.

Tsou, Judy. "Women and music: A selective annotated bibliography on women and gender issues in music, 1987-1992." Fontes artis musicae 43/4 (Oct-Dec 1996), 413-414.


Anthologies and Sources for Music

Backer, Audrey. "New Lyrics by Women: A Feminist Alternative, With Discography." Journal of Popular Culture 24 (1990), 1-22.

Briscoe, James R. Historical Anthology of Music by Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Boenke, H.M. Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Edwards, J. Michele. "Choral Potpourri: Literature by Women Composers." ChoralNet Resource Site (FTP and Gopher). Available as of May 9, 1995; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology/ChoralNet/Reference/Composers/Women.cmp. Also accessible via Internet website; scroll halfway down the page until you reach "Choral Potpourri." annotation

Frasier, Jane. Women Composers: A Discography. Detroit Information Coordinators, 1983.

Leder, Jan. Women in Jazz: A Discography of Instrumental Music 1913-1968. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Meggett, Joan M. Keyboard Music by Women Composers: A Catalogue and Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood, 1981.

Reich, Nancy. "An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Writings on Women in Music." In Women's Studies/Women's Status. CMS Report Number 5, Nancy B. Reich, Chair, CMS Committee on the Status of Women in Music. Boulder, CO: The College Music Society, 1988.

Schlegel, Ellen Grolman. Catalog of Published Works for String Orchestra and Piano by Twentieth-Century American Women Composers. Birmingham, AL: Colonial Press, 1992.

Stewart-Green, Miriam. Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall and Co., 1980.

Straus, Joseph N. Music by Women for Tonal Theory Students. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1995.

Walker-Hill, Helen. Piano Music by Black Women Composers: A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Zaimont, Judith and Karen Famera, eds. Contemporary Concert Music by Women: A Directory of the Composers and their Works. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

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Reviews

Conference Reviews Book and Article Reviews; Review-Essays

Conference Reviews

FTM I: Minneapolis, 1991

Cash, Alice H. "Conference Report: Feminist Theory and Music: Toward a Common Language, University of Minnesota, June 26-30 1991." Journal of Musicology 9/4 (1991), 521-532.

Kielian-Gilbert, Marianne. "Feminist Theory and Music Conference, Minneapolis, June 1991: Questions on Ecstasy, Morality, Creativity (Feminism Forum)." Perspectives of New Music 30/2 (1992), 240-242.

Riis, Thomas and Fred Maus. "Conference Report: Feminist Theory and Music I." Sonneck Society Bulletin 17/3 (1991), 103-104.

FTM II: Rochester, 1993

Bowers, Jane. "Feminist Theory and Music II in Rochester, June 1993." Current Musicology 56 (1994), 138-149.

Caputo, Virginia and Roberta Lamb. "Feminist Theory and Music II: Rochester, 1993." Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes 14 (1994), 182-187.

Edwards, J. Michele. "Feminist Theory and Music II: A Continuing Dialogue." The International League of Women Composers Journal (October 1993), 36-39.

Laugesen, Emily Sneider. "Feminist Theory and Music II: A Continuing Dialog, 17-20 June 1993." Perspectives of New Music 32 (1994), 300-303.

Other Conferences

Citron, Marcia J. "Beyond Biography: Seventh International Congress on Women in Music, Utrecht, The Netherlands 29 May-2 June 1991 [and] Music and Gender Conference, King's College, London, 5-7 July 1991." Journal of Musicology 9/4 (1991), 533-543.

Senici, E, and A. Suschitxky. "Conference Report: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera, September 1995, SUNY-Stony Brook." Journal of Musicological Research 15 (1995), 275-283.


Book and Article Reviews; Review-Essays
(arranged by book reviewed and date)

Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986, 1987.

Gottlieb, Jane. Notes 47/1 (1990), 56-9.

Carter, Tim. Music and Letters 69/1 (1988), 61-4.

Koskoff, Ellen. Ethnomusicology 32/3 (1988), 474-478.

Wood, Elizabeth. Signs 13/2 (1988), 354-7.

Cohen, Aaron I., ed. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd ed. Books & Music USA, 1987. 

LeFanu, Nicola. Music and Letters 71/1(1990), 74-5.

Tsou, Judy. Notes 46/3 (1990), 633-5.

Neuls-Bates, Carol. Notes 40/1 (1983), 53-5. (1st ed.)

Rettig, James. Wilson Library Bulletin 56 (1982), 463.

Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present. New York: Harper & Row, 1982. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995, 1996.

Bristah, Pamela. Notes 40/2 (1983), 302-3.

Raynor, Henry. The Music Review 46 (May 1985), 148-50.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 

Barwick, Linda. Australian Journal of Anthropology 2/1 (1991), 149-50.

Bowers, Jane. Gender & Society 5/1 (1991), 125-127.

Hamessley, Lydia. American Ethnologist 18/2 (1991), 377-8.

Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell. Ethnomusicology 33/3 (1989), 514-520.

Feld, Steven. American Anthropologist 90 (1988), 1003.

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. 

Rosen, Charles. The New York Review of Books. 41/12 (June 23, 1994), 55.

Smart, Mary Ann. Journal of Musicological Research 14/1-2 (1994), 77-84. [McClary, reviews]

Sayrs, Elizabeth. "Deconstructing McClary: Narrative, Feminine Sexuality and Feminism in Susan McClary's Feminine Endings." College Music Symposium 33/34 (1993/1994), 41-55.

DeNora, Tia. Contemporary Sociology 22/1 (1993), 116-117.

Ferris, Lesley. "Absent Bodies, Dancing Bodies, Broken Dishes: Feminist Theory, Postmodernism, and the Visual Arts." Signs 18/1 (1992), 162-172. annotation

Higgins, Paula. "Women in Music, Feminist Criticism, and Guerilla Musicology: Reflections on Recent Polemics." Nineteenth-Century Music 17/2 (1993), 174-192. [McClary, reviews] annotation

Kallick, Jenny. Journal of Music Theory 37/2 (1993), 391-402. [McClary, reviews] annotation

Solie, Ruth. Journal of Modern History 65/3 (1993), 575-577. [McClary, reviews]

Treitler, Leo. "Gender and Other Dualities of Music History." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship,ed. Ruth Solie, 23-45. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. [McClary, reviews]

Wolff, Janet. "Death and the Maiden: Does Semiotics Justify Murder?" Critical Quarterly 35/2 (1993), 38-44.

Barkin, Elaine. "'either/other' (Feminism Forum)." Perspectives of New Music 30/2 (1992), 206-33. [McClary, reviews]

Carl, Robert. Notes 48/4 (1992), 1288. [McClary, reviews]

Biddlecombe, George. "Review of Feminine Endings." Popular Music 11/3 (1992), 373-376.

Cook, Susan. American Quarterly 44/1 (1992), 155-163.

Detels, Claire. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50/4 (1992), 338-340.

McClary, Susan. "A Response to Elaine Barkin (Feminism Forum)." Perspectives of New Music 30/2 (1992), 234-38. [McClary, reviews, Barkin] [cf. Barkin]

Pasler, Jann. "Some Thoughts on Susan McClary's Feminine Endings(Feminism Forum)." Perspectives of New Music 30/2 (1992), 202-205. [McClary, reviews]

Schiff, David.The New Republic 206/5(Feb. 3, 1992), 32-38. [McClary, reviews]

van den Toorn, Pieter C. "Politics, Feminism, and Contemporary Music Theory." Journal of Musicology 9/3 (1991), 275-299. [McClary, reviews][cf. Solie]

Solie, Ruth. "What Do Feminists Want? A Reply to Pieter van den Toorn." Journal of Musicology 9/4 (1991), 399-411. [McClary, reviews, van den Toorn][cf. van den Toorn]

Pendle, Karin, ed. Women & Music: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Hamessley, Lydia. Signs 19 (Spring 1994), 753-8.

Tick, Judith. Notes 49/3 (1993), 1058-9.

Ambrose, J. P. CHOICE 29/8 (April 1992), 1239-1230.

Fuller, Sophie. Times Literary Supplement 4676 (Nov. 13, 1992), 12.

Solie, Ruth. The Women's Review of Books 9/5 (1992), 7-9.

Solie, Ruth, ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 

Hamessley, Lydia. Signs 21/2 (1996), 475-477.

Knowles, Sebastian D.G. "Muddying the Well: Contemporary Musicology and Absolute Music--A Commentary on Ruth Solie's Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship." Music Reference Services Quarterly 4/3(1996), 1-15.

Franklin, Peter. Music & Letters 76/1 (1995), 135-139.

Goehring, Edmund J. The Opera Quarterly 12/2 (1995), 107-115.

Lorraine, Renee Cox. Nineteenth-Century Music19/1(1995), 96-211.

Cook, Susan. The Women's Review of Books 11/9 (1994), 22-23.

Daverio, John. Current Musicology 56 (Jan. 1994), 86-101.

Hisama, Ellie. "Review of Ruth Solie, ed., Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship; Marcia J. Citron, Gender and the Musical Canon." Journal of Musicology 12/2 (Spring 1994), 219-232. [Solie, Citron, reviews]

Holsinger, Bruce. The Nation 259/1 (1994), 22-25.

Rosen, Charles. The New York Review of Books 41/12 (1994), 55-62.

Smart, Mary Ann. Journal of the American Musicological Society 47/3 (1994), 541-549.

Other Reviews

Berry, Venise. "Review of She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop, and Soul, by Lucy O'Brien." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 77-78.

Borroff, Edith. "Review Article: More News on Women's Accomplishments. The Musical Quarterly 79/3 (1995), 454-457.

Boynton, Susan. "Review of Women Composers: Music through the Ages, ed. Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. Volume I: Composers Born before 1599." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 97-100.

Browner, Tara. "Review of Southern Cheyenne Women's Songs, by Virginia Giglio." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 85-86.

Edwards, J. Michele. "Review of Daughter of Olapa (many streams in this story): The Music of Carol Ann Weaver." International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 2/3 (October 1996), 32-33.

Edwards, J. Michele. "Review of En travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera, ed. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 86-90.

Edwards, J. Michele. "Review of A Miriam Gideon Retrospective, CD from New World Records (80393-2)." American Music 14/2 (Summer 1996), 244-247.

Edwards, J. Michele. "'What Does Music?' A Review of Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou." International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 1/2 (October 1995), 32-35.

Edwards, J. Michele. "Women and Music." National Women's Studies Association Journal 1/3 (Spring 1989), 506-518. annotation

Judkins, Jennifer. "Review of Leppert, Richard, The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body(1993)." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53/1 (Winter 1995), 103-104.

Hagberg, Garry. "Review of Subotnik, Rose Rosengard, Developing Variations: Style and Ideology in Western Music." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52/2 (Spring 1994), 254-255.

Lochhead, Judith. "Review of Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, eds. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy Jones." Music Theory Online 2/1(1996).

Metzelaar, Helen. "Review of Blowing Her Own Trumpet: European Ladies' Orchestras and Other Women Musicians in Sweden, 1870-1950, by Margaret Myers." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 71-76.

Rothstein, Edward. "Did a Man or a Woman Write That? Views of Leo Treitler and Others." New York Times (Late New York Edition) (July 17 1994), 25 (Sec 2).

Smith, Catherine Parsons. "Review of The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 79-84.

Smith, Catherine Parsons. "Review of The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States, 1629-Present, by Sophie Fuller." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 101ff.

Vandermeer, Phillip. "Review of Music, Gender, and Culture, eds. Marcia Herndon and Susanne Ziegler." Notes 48 (1991), 523-525.

Wood, Elizabeth. "Reveiw Essay: Women in Music." Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society 6/2 (1980), 283-297.

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Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theory

Attig, R. Brian. "The Gay Voice in Popular Music: A Social Value Model Analysis of 'Don't Leave Me This Way.'" Journal of homosexuality 21/1-2 (1991), 185-202.

Attinello, Paul. "Authority and Freedom: Toward a Sociology of the Gay Choruses." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 315-346. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Brett, Philip. "Are You Musical?" Musical Times (June 1994), 370-374.

Brett, Philip. "Britten's Dream." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 259-280. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Brett, Philip. "Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 235-256. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Brett, Philip. "Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 9-26. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Currid, Brian. "'We are family': House Music and Queer Performativity." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "On a Lesbian Relation with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 67-83. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Dame, Joke. "Unveiled Voices: Sexual Difference and the Castrato." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 139-154. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Eder, Donna. "The National Women's Music Festival: Collective Identity and Diversity in a Lesbian-Feminist Community." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 23 (Jan. 1995), 485-515.

Francois, A. L. "Fakin' it/Makin' it: Falsetto's Bid for Transcendence in 1970s Disco Highs." Perspectives of New Music 33 (1995), 442-457.

Gill, John. Queer noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Music. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Goldstein, Lynda. "Revamping MTV: Passing for Queer Culture in the Video Closet." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology, ed. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, 262-279. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Hamessley, Lydia. "Henry Lawe's Setting of Katherine Philip's Friendship Poetry in his Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading?" In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 115-138. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Hawkins, S. "Perspectives in Popular Musicology: Music, Lennox, and Meaning in 1990s Pop." Popular Music 15 (1996), 17-36. [Analysis of Lennox's "Money Can't Buy It."]

Hicks, Michael. "The Imprisonment of Henry Cowell." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44/1 (1991), 92-119.

Holsinger, Bruce Wood. "The Flesh of the Voice: Embodiment and the Homoerotics of Devotion in the Music of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)." Signs 19/1 (1993), 92-125.

Hubbs, Nadine. "Music of the 'Fourth Gender': Morrissey and the Sexual Politics of Melodic Contour." In Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance, ed. Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, and Ellen Berry, 266-296. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. New York: Poseidon Press, 1993.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. "Queering the Pitch: A Posy of Definitions and Impersonations." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 1-8. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Maas, Lawrence D. "A Conversation with Ned Rorem." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 85-112. New York: Routledge, 1994.

McClary, Susan. "Constructions of Subjectivity in Schubert's Music." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 205-233. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Meredith, William. "Commentary: The Eroica and Beethoven's Sexuality through a Feminist Lens--Susan McClary's Readings of Beethoven in Queering the Pitch." Beethoven Newsletter 8-9/3-1 (1993-1994), 107-109.

McClellan, Michael E. "'If we could talk with the animals': Elephants and Musical Performance During the French Revolution." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Mockus, Martha. "Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 257-271. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Morris, Mitchell. "On Gaily Reading Music." repercussions 1/1 (1992), 48-64. [Barthes, Lacan, Bakhtin, Sedgwick]

Morris, Mitchell. "Reading as an Opera Queen." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 184-200. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Pegley, Karen and Virginia Caputo. "Growing Up Female(s): Retrospective Thoughts on Musical Preferences and Meanings." repercussions 1-1 (1992), 65-80. Also in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 297-314. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Peraino, Judith. "'Rip Her to Shreds': Women's Music According to a Butch-Femme Aesthetic." repercussions 1/1 (1992), 19-47. [Phranc, Deborah Harry, butch-femme]

Rycenga, Jennifer. "Lesbian Compositional Process: One Lover-Composer's Perspective." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 275-298. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Savigliano, Marta E. "Tango and the Postmodern Uses of Passion." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Stein , Arlene. "Androgyny Goes Pop: But is it Lesbian Music?" In Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation, ed. Arlene Stein. New York: Plume, 1993.

Thomas, Gary C. "'Was George Friederic Handel Gay?': On Closet Questions and Cultural Politics." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 155-204. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Wolf, Stacy. "The Queer Pleasures of Mary Martin and Broadway: The Sound of Music as a Lesbian Musical." Modern Drama 39 (Spring 1996), 51-63.

Wood, Elizabeth. "Lesbian Fugue: Ethel Smyth's Contrapuntal Arts." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 164-183. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Wood, Elizabeth. "Sapphonics." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 27-66. New York: Routledge, 1994.

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Feminist Analyses of Music

Beizer, Janet . "Rewriting Ophelia: Fluidity, Madness, and Voice in Louise Colet's La Servante." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 152-165. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "'There was not one lady who failed to shed a tear': Arianna's Lament and the Construction of Modern Womanhood." Early Music 22/1 (1994), 21-32. [laments, Ariadne, Monteverdi]

Dell'Antonio, Andrew. "The Sensual Sonata: Construction of Desire in Early Baroque Instrumental Music." repercussions 1/2 (1992), 52-83.

Dunn, Leslie C. "Ophelia's Songs in Hamlet: Music, Madness, and the Feminine." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 50-64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Fink, Robert. "Desire, Repression, and Brahms' First Symphony." repercussions 2/1(1993), 75-103.

Fuller, Sophie. "The Silence of Violetta." In Violetta and Her Sisters: The Lady of the Camellias: Responses to the Myth, ed. Nicholas John. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994.

Holloway, Karla F. C. "The Lyrical Dimensions of Spirituality: Music, Voice, and Language in the Novels of Toni Morrison." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture,, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 197-211. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Holsinger, Bruce Wood. "The Flesh of the Voice: Embodiment and the Homoerotics of Devotion in the Music of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)." Signs 19/1(1993), 92-125.

Hisama, Ellie. "Gender, Politics, and Modernist Music: Analyses of Five Compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer (1887-1955)." Ph.D dissertation, CUNY, 1996.

Hisama, Ellie. "Postcolonialism on the Make: The Music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie and John Zorn." Popular Music 12/ 2 (1993), 91-104.

Hisama, Ellie M. "The Question of Climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, Mvt. 3." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth Marvin and Richard Hermann, 285-312. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995.

Jackson, Timothy L. "Aspects of Sexuality and Structure in the Later Symphonies of Tchaikovsky." Music Analysis 14/1 (1995), 3-25.

Jones, Nancy A. "Music and the Maternal Voice in Purgatorio XIX." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 35-49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Kielian-Gilbert, Marianne. "On Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano: Feminine Spaces and Metaphors of Reading." In Audible Traces: Music, Gender, and Identity, eds. Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley. Zurich: Carciofoli Verlagshaus, 1997.

Kolin, Philip C. "Orpheus Ascending: Music, Race, and Gender in Adrienne Kennedy's 'She talks to Beethoven.'" African American Review 28/2 (1994), 293-304.

Kramer, Lawrence. "The Lied as Cultural Practice: Tutelage, Gender, and Desire in Mendelssohn's Goethe Songs." In Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, by Lawrence Kramer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Kramer, Lawrence. "Performance and Social Meaning in the Lied: Schubert's Erster Verlust." Current Musicology 56(1994), 5-23. [Schubert, Lied, marriage, performance]

Lochhead, Judy. "Joan Tower's 'Wings' and 'Breakfast Rhythms I and II': Some Thoughts on Form and Repetition." Perspectives of New Music 30/1 (1992), 132-156.

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. [cf. reviews]

McClary, Susan. "Narrative Agendas in 'Absolute' Music: Identity and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 326-344. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Reeve, Katherine. "The Damnation of Faust: The Perils of Heroism in Music." In Berlioz Studies, ed. Peter Bloom, 148-188. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Rhodes, Janet. "The Women's Song: L. Berio's 'Sequenza III.'" The Christian Century 107/32 (1990), 1030-2.

Solie, Ruth A. "Whose life? The Gendered Self in Schumann's Frauenliebe songs." In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, ed. Steven Paul Scher, 219-240. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Straus, Joseph Nathan. The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Tick, Judith. "Dissonant Counterpoint Revisited: The First Movement of Ruth Crawford's String Quartet 1931." In A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock, ed. Richard Crawford, R. Allen Lott, and Carol J. Oja, 405-22. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.

Tick, Judith. "Ruth Crawford's Proletarian Ricercari." Sonus 15/2 (Spring 1995), 54-79.

Toews, John E. "Memory and Gender in the Remaking of Fanny Mendelssohn's Musical Identity: The Chorale in 'Das Jahr.'" The Musical Quarterly 77/4 (1993), 727-748.

Treadwell, Nina. "The Performance of Gender in Cavalieri/Guidiccioni's Ballo 'O che nuovo miracolo' (1589)." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 55-70.

Waterman, Ellen. "Cassandra's Dream Song: A Literary Feminist Perspective." Perspectives of New Music 32/2 (1994), 154-173.


Analyses of Music by Women

Parsons, Laurel. "Music and Text in Elisabeth Lutyens's Wittgenstein Motet." Canadian University Music Review 20/1 (1999): 71-100.

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Women, Feminism, Opera

Abbate, Carolyn. "Opera; or, the Envoicing of Women." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 225-258. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Abbate, Carolyn. Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Abel, Samuel D. Opera in the Flesh: Sexuality in Operatic Performance. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

Barnes, Jennifer. "Where Are the Mothers in Opera?" In Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music, ed. Sarah Cooper, 86-99. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Bartlet, Elizabeth. "The New Repertory at the Opera During the Reign of Terror: Revolutionary Rhetoric and Operatic Consequences." In Music and the French Revolution, ed. Malcolm Boyd, 107-156. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Blackmer, Corinne E. and Patricia Juliana Smith, eds. En Travesti: Women, Gender subversion, Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Boer, Bertil H. van, Jr. "Valkyries of the North: A Study of Four Women Performers in Gustavian Sweden." Women of Note Quarterly 2/2 (1994), 15-25.

Brett, Philip. "Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas." InQueering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 235-256. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Castle, Terry. "In praise of Brigitte Fassbaender: Reflections on diva- worship." In: En travesti: Women, gender subversion, opera, 20-58. New York: Columbia U., 1995.

Caswell, Austin B. "Maeterlinck's and Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue: A Feminist Opera?" Studies in Romanticism 27 (1988), 203-220.

Citron, Marcia J. "A Night at the Cinema: Zeffirelli's Otello and the Genre of Film-Opera." The Musical Quarterly 78/4 (1994), 700-741.

Clement, Catherine. Opera, or, The Undoing of Women. Translated by Betsy Wing. With a foreword by Susan McClary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

Daines, M. "Nixon's Women: Gender Politics and Representation in Act 2 of Nixon in China." Musical Quarterly 79 (1995), 6-34.

Dugaw, Dianne. "Parody, Gender, and Transformation in Gay and Handel's Acis and Galatea." Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 (Summer 1996), 345-67.

Ellison, Cori. "Poetry and Precision." Opera News 57 (1992), 44ff. [opera, Francesca Zambello]

Ford, Charles. Così: Sexual Politics in Mozart's Operas. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1991.

Franklin, Peter Robert. "Distant Sounds--Fallen Music: Der ferne Klang as 'Woman's Opera'?" Cambridge Opera Journal 3/2 (1991), 159-172.

Freeman, Daniel Evan. "La guerriera amante: Representations of Amazons and warrior queens in Venetian baroque opera." The musical quarterly 80/3 (1996), 431-460.

Gossett, Philip. "History and Works That Have No history: Reviving Rossini's Neapolitan Operas." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Heller, Wendy. "Reforming Achilles: Gender, opera seria, and the rhetoric of the enlightened hero." Early music 26/ 4 (1998), 562-581.

Herwitz, Daniel. "The Cook, His Wife, The Philosopher, and the Librettist." The Musical Quarterly 78/1 (1994), 48-76. [Mozart, Don Giovanni]

Hutcheon, Linda and Michael Hutcheon. Opera: Desire, Disease, Death. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1996.

Hutcheon, Linda and Michael Hutcheon. "Syphilis, Sin, and the Social Order: Richard Wagner's Parsifal." Cambridge Opera Journal 7 (1995), 261-275.

Illo, J. "American Divas in Paris: 1880s Press Interviews by d'Alberty." Opera Quarterly 12 (1996), 45-57.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. New York: Poseidon Press, 1993.

Kramer, Lawrence. "Culture and Musical Hermeneutics: The Salome Complex." Cambridge Opera Journal 2/3 (1990), 269-294.

Leonardi, Susan J.; Pope, Rebecca A. The diva's mouth: Body, voice, prima donna politics. New Brunswick: Rutgers U., 1996.

Locke, Ralph. "Constructing the Oriental Other." Cambridge Opera Journal (Nov. 1991), 261-302.

Locke, Ralph. "What Are These Women Doing in Opera?" In En travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera, eds. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

McClary, Susan. Georges Bizet, Carmen. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

McGeary, Thomas. "Gendering Opera: Italian Opera as the Feminine Other in Britain, 1700-1742." Journal of Musicological Research 14/1-2 (1994), 17-34.

Miner, Margaret. "Phantoms of Genius: Women and the Fantastic in the Opera-House Mystery." Nineteenth-Century Music 18/2 (1994), 121-135.

Morris, Mitchell. "Reading as an Opera Queen." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 184-200. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Nelson, Byron. "Weibertotenlieder: German Musical Narratives of Women's Deaths, from Kundry to Schoenberg's Waldtaube." The Opera Quarterly 12 (Summer 1996), 47-59.

Peraino, Judith A. "I am an opera: Identifying with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas." New York: Columbia U., 1995, 99-131.

Pope, Rebecca A. "The Diva Doesn't Die: George Eliot's Armgart." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 139-151. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Potter, J. and L.M. Griffel. "Transcending Gender and Cross-Dressing: Leonore as Romantic Revolutionary." Beethoven Journal 11 (1996), 8-11.

Rosand, Ellen. "Operatic Madness: A Challenge to Convention." In Music and Text: Critical Inquiries, ed. Steven Paul Scher, 241-287. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Sala, Emilio. "Women Crazed by Love: An Aspect of Romantic Opera." Trans. by W. Ashbrook. The Opera Quarterly10 (Spring 1994), 19-41.

Salmon, Gregory. "Tutti Accusan le Donne: Schools of Reason and Folly in Così fan tutte." repercussions 1/1 (1992), 81-102.

Westfall, Suzanne R. "The Silver Lining in the Mushroom Cloud: Meredith Monk's Opera/Music Theater." In Modern American Drama: The Female Canon, ed. June Schlueter. London: Associated University Presses, 1990.

Wheelock, Gretchen A. "Schwarze Gredel and the Engendered Minor Mode in Mozart's Operas." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 201-224. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

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Music History

Austern, Linda Phyllis. "'No Women Are Indeed': The Boy Actor as Vocal Seductress in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century English Drama." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 83-102. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Austern, Linda Phyllis. "'Alluring the auditorie to effeminacie': Music and the Idea of the Feminine in Early Modern England." Music & letters 74/3 (1993), 343-354.

Austern, Linda Phyllis. "Music and the English Renaissance Controversy over Women." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 52-69. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Austern, Linda Phyllis. "'Sing againe Syren': The Female Musician and Sexual Enchantment in Elizabethan Life and Literature." Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989), 420-48.

Baldauf-Berdes, Jane L. "Anna Maria della Pieta: The Woman Musician of Venice Personified." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 134-155. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Bowers, Jane M. "Music in Italian Convents."Helicon 9 (1983), 65-66.

Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn. "Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours." Speculum 67/4 (1992), 865-891.

Burgan, Mary. "Heroines at the Piano: Women and Music in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Victorian Studies 30 (Autumn 1986), 51-76.

Cox, Renée. "A History of Music." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48/4 (1990), 395-409.

Cook , Susan C. "'Cursed Was She': Gender and Power in American Balladry." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 202-224. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1994. [Fuller and Warren]

Cusick, Suzanne G. "Gendering Modern Music: Thoughts on the Monteverdi-Artusi Controversy." Journal of the American Musicological Society 46/1 (1993), 1-25.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "Of Women, Music, and Power: A Model from Seicento Florence." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 281-304. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 

Cusick, Suzanne G. "Of Women, Music, and Power: A Model from Seicento Florence." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 281-304. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Davis, Angela. "Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy of Struggle." In Wild Women in the Whirlwind: Afro-American Culture and the Contmporary Loterary Renaissance, ed. Joanne Braxton and Andree Nicola McCLaughlin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Diether, Jack. "The Murderous Marriage of Alma and Gustav Mahler." In The Helicon Nine Reader, ed. Gloria Hickok, 283-293. Kansas City: Helicon Nine Editions, 1990.

Elkins-Marlow, Laurine. "'Music at Every Meeting': Music in the National League of American Pen Women and the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1920-1940." In Politics, Gender, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society, ed. Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers. London: Associated University Presses, 1992.

Goodwin, Sarah Webster. "Wordsworth and Romantic Voice: The Poet's Song and the Prostitute's Cry." In Embodied Voices : Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 65-82. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Greer, David. A Numerous and Fashionable Audience: The Story of Elsie Swinton. London: Thames Publishing, 1997. [performer, Harty, Grainger, Fauré, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Szymanowski, Rubinstein] annotation

Harris, Gerry. "Regarding History: Some Narratives Concerning the Cafe-Concert, Le Music Hall, and the Feminist Academic." TDR 40 (Winter 1996), 70-84.

Head, Matthew. "Like beauty spots on the face of a man": Gender in 18th-century North-German Discourse on Genre." Journal of Musicology 13 (Spring 1995), 143-67. [CPE Bach, genre]

Heskes, Irene. "Miriam's Sisters: Jewish Women and Liturgical Music." Notes 48 (1992), 1193-1211.

Higgins, Paula. "The 'Other Minervas': Creative Women at the Court of Margaret of Scotland." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Higgins, Paula Marie. "Parisian Nobles, a Scottish Princess, and the Woman's Voice in Late Medieval Song." Early Music History 10 (1991), 145-200.

Hizer-Jenkins, Lynn. "Instruments and Gender in 19th-century Music-Making." NACWPI Journal 44/3 (1996), 4-12.

Horowitz, Joseph. "Finding a 'Real Self': American Women and the Wagner Cult of the Late Nineteenth Century." The Musical Quarterly 78 (Summer 1994), 189-205.

Howard, Patricia. "The Influence of the Precieuses on Content and Structure in Quinault's and Lully's Tragedies Lyriques." Acta Musicologica 63 (1991), 57-72.

Kallberg, Jeffrey. "The Harmony of the Tea Table: Gender and Ideology in the Piano Nocturne." Representations 39 (1992), 102-133. [nocturne, salon, genre]

Kendrick, Robert. "Feminized Devotion, Musical Nuns and the "New-style" Lombard Motet of the 1640s." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Kopelson, Kevin. Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Leppert, Richard D. "Sexual Identity, Death, and the Family Piano." Nineteenth-Century Music 16/2 (1992), 105-128.

Leppert, Richard. "Social Order and the Domestic Consumption of Music: The Politics of Sound in the Policing of Gender Construction in Eighteenth-Century England." In The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text, ed. Ann Bermingham and John Brewer. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Lorraine, Renee. "A History of Music." In Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics, ed. Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

Macleod, Beth Abelson. "'Whence comes the lady tympanist?' Gender and Instrumental Musicians in America, 1853-1990." Journal of Social History 27 (Winter 1993), 291-308.

Marshall, Kimberly, ed. Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

McFarland, A. S. "Papal Singer, the Musica Segreta, and a Woman Musician at the Papal Court: The View from the Private Treasury of Paul III." Studi Musici 24 (1995), 209-230.

McGinty, Doris Evans. "Black Women in the Music of Washington, D.C., 1900-20." In New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park, 1992, 409-449.

Miller, Beth L. "The Ridgelys of Hampton: New Perspectives on Musical Life in Early-Nineteenth-Century Baltimore." Journal of Musicological Research 14/1-2 (1994), 35-54.

Monson, Craig A. Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian Convent. University of California Press, 1995.

Moore, Julianna. "Women and the Flute in the Nineteenth Century." In Fluting and Dancing: Articles and Reminiscences for Betty Bang Mather on her 65th birthday. New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1992: 51-60.

Natvig, Mary, ed. Teaching Music History. London: Ashgate, 2002.

Pederson, Sanna. "On the Task of the Music Historian: The Myth of the Symphony after Beethoven." repercussions 2/2 (1993), 5-30. [Germany, A.B.Marx, Dahlhaus, Beethoven]

Post, Jennifer C. "Erasing the Boundaries Between Public and Private in Women's Performance Traditions." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 35-51. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Reich, Nancy B. "Women as Musicians: A Question of Class." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 125-148. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Rieger, Eva. "'Dolce semplice'?: On the Changing Role of Women in Music." In Feminist Aesthetics, ed. Gisela Ecker, trans. Harriet Anderson. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Schroeder, David P. "Alban Berg and Peter Altenberg: Intimate Art and the Aesthetics of Life." Journal of the American Musicological Society 46 (Summer 1993), 261-94.

Scott, Derek B. "Sexuality and Musical Style from Monteverdi to Mae West." In The Last Post: Music after Modernism, 132-149. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 1993.

Scott, Derek B. "The Sexual Politics of Victorian Musical Aesthetics." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 119/1 (1994), 91-114.

Smyth, Ethel. The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth. Abridged and introduction by Ronald Crichton. List of Works by Jorry Bennet. London: Viking Press, 1987.

Solie, Ruth A. "Sophie Drinker's History." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman, 23-43. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Steblin, Rita. "The Gender Steroetyping of Musical Instruments in the Western Tradition." Canadian University Music Review 16/1 (1995), 128-144.

Steinberg, Michael P. "Culture, Gender and Music: A Forum on the Mendelssohn Family (Introduction)." The Musical Quarterly 77/4 (1993), 648-650.

Touliatos, Diane. "The Traditional Role of Greek Women in Music from Antiquity to the End of the Byzantine Empire." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall, 111-123. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Treitler, Leo. "The Politics of Reception: Tailoring the Present as Fulfillment of a Desired Past." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 116/2 (1991), 280-298. [chant, Oriental, Rousseau, ritual]

White, Linda. "'The Most Potent Force' in American Music: The Role of Women's Music Clubs in American Concert Life." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 663-681.

Whitesitt, Linda. "The Role of Women Impresarios in American Concert Life, 1871-1933." American Music 7 (Summer 1989), 159-80.

Whittemore, Joan. "The Revision Repertoire of the Ospedali Veneziani." The Choral Journal 34/8 (1994), 9-13.

Wood, Elizabeth. "Performing Rights: A Sonography of Women's Suffrage." The Musical Quarterly 79 (Winter 1995), 606-43.

Wright, Josephine R.B. "Black Women in Classical Music in Boston During the Late Nineteenth Century: Profiles of Leadership." In New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park, 1992: 373-407.

Zaimont, Judith Lang, and Mary Brown Hinely. "The Awakening: Creative Contributions to American Music by Southem Women, 1860-1960." In A New Perspective: Southern Women's Cultural History from the Civil War to Civil Rights, ed. Priscilla Cortelyou Little and Robert C. Vaughan, 65-76. Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 1989.

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monson, craig a. disembodied voices: music and culture in an early modern italian convent.

smyth, ethel. the memoirs of ethel smyth.

Images of Women

Baker, Ronald L. "The Image of Women in British Romantic and Humorous Ballads." Midwestern Folklore 17/2 (1991), 125-130.

Berry, Venise T. "Feminine or Masculine: The Conflicting Nature of Female Images in Rap Music." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 183-201. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Carby, Hazel V. "In Body and Spirit: Representing Black Women Musicians." Black Music Research Journal. 11/2 (1991), 177-192.

Freeman, Daniel Evan. "La guerriera amante: Representations of Amazons and warrior queens in Venetian baroque opera." The musical quarterly 80/3 (1996), 431-460.

Howard, Patricia. "Quinault, Lully, and the Precieuses: Images of Women in Seventeenth-Century France." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 70-89. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Koza, Julia Eklund. "Females in 1988 Middle School Music Textbooks: An Analysis of Illustrations." Journal of Research in Music Education 42/2 (1994), 145-171.

Koza, Julia Eklund. "Music and the Feminine Sphere: Images of Women as Musicians in Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1877." The Musical Quarterly 75 (Summer 1991), 103-29.

Leppert, Richard. Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Leppert, Richard. The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Loranger, Dennis. "Women, Nature, and Appearance: Themes in Popular Song Texts from the Turn of the Century." American Music Research Center Journal 2 (1992), 68-85.

Pessen, Edward. "Two Kinds of Woman in the Tin Pan Alley Song of the 1920s and 1930s." In Research in American Popular Music, 11-23. Carrollton, GA: West Georgia College, 1992.

Preston, Cathy Lynn. "'The tying of the garter': Representations of the Female Rural Laborer in 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century English Bawdy Songs." The Journal of American Folklore 105/417 (1992), 315-341.

Scheurer, Timothy E. "Goddesses and Golddiggers: Images of Women in Popular Music of the 1930s." Journal of Popular Culture 24 (Summer 1990), 23-38.

leppert, richard. the sight of sound: music, representation, and the history of the body.


Women Composers and Scholars

(see also basic resources)

Anderson, Leslie N. "Women Film and Television Composers in the United States." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective vol. 3 (1986-1990), 353-370.

Block , Adrienne Fried. "The Child Is Mother of the Woman: Amy Beach's New England Upbringing." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 107-133. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Block, Adrienne Fried. "Why Amy Beach Succeeded as a Composer: The Early Years." Current Musicology 36 (1983), 41-59.

Brooks, Jeanice. "Nadia Boulanger and the Salon of the Princesse de Polignac." Journal of the American Musicological Society 46/3 (1993), 415-468. [Boulanger, salon music, Edmond de Polignac, France]

Canarina, John. "The Legendary Dame Ethyl Smyth." The Helicon Nine Reader, ed. Gloria Hickok, 228-228. Kansas City: Helicon Nine Editions, 1990.

Caputo, Virginia. "Silent canons: Places for music by women. In: "With a song in her heart": A celebration of Canadian women composers, 23-33. Windsor: Humanities Research Group, 1995.

Carpenter, Ellon DeGrief. "Women Music Scholars in the Soviet Union." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 456-516.

Chisolm, Rose Marie. "Analytical Approaches to Amy Beach's Piano Quintet in F# Minor." Indiana Theory Review 4 (1981), 41-53.

Citron, Marcia J. Cecile Chaminade: A Bio-Bibliography. Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Citron, Marcia J. "Publication and Music by Women." Sounds Australian Journal 40 (Summer 1993-1994), 19-21.

Citron, Marcia J. "Felix Mendelssohn's Influence on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel as a Professional Composer." Current Musicology 37/38 (1984), 9-17.

Cook, Susan Carol. "The Career and Times of Irene Castle: Revolutions in Music and Manners." In 1789-1989: Musique, histoire, democratie, 363-372. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1992.

Curtis, Liane. "Rebecca Clarke and sonata form: questions of gender and genre." The Musical Quarterly 81/3 (Fall 1997), 393-429.

Cusick, Suzanne G. "'Thinking from Women's Lives': Francesco Caccini after 1627." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Deval, D. "Revolutionary Women: Music By, For, and About Women in Late 18th-Century London." RCM 92 (1995), 24-28.

Dixon, Gail. "The String Quartets of Barbara Pentland." Canadian University Music Review 11/2 (1991), 94-121.

Dopp, Bonnie Jo. "Numerology and Cryptography in the Music of Lili Boulanger: The Hidden Program in 'Clairière dans le ciel'." The Musical Quarterly 78(1994), 556-583.

Drakich, Janice D., Edward Kovarik and Ramona Lumpkin, eds. "With a Song in her Heart: A Celebration of Canadian Women Composers." Proceedings of the University of Windsor Conference, March 11-12, 1994. University of Windsor: Humanities Research Group, 1995.

Epstein, Selma. "Researching Piano Music by Black Women Composers." ILWC Journal (Oct. 1992), 24.

Evans, Allan. "Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening." Fanfare 15/5 (1992), 371-374.

Feldman, Ann E. "Being Heard: Women Composers and Patrons at the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition." Notes 47 (Sept. 1990), 7-20.

Gates, Eugene. "Where Are All the Women Composers?: Reclaiming a Cultural Heritage." Canadian Music Educator 35/5 (Spring 1994), 17-19.

Gates, Eugene. "Why Have There Been No Great Women Composers? Psychological Theories, Past and Present." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 28/2 (1994), 27-34.

Grattan, Virginia L. American Women Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Hamer, Janice. "Musgrave, Thea, Scottish Composer." Opera News 59 (1995), 20-23.

Hartig, Linda B. Violet Archer: A Bio-bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Hayes, Deborah. "Some Neglected Women Composers of the Eighteenth Century and Their Music." Current Musicology 39 (1985), 42-65.

Husby, Jane. "Potential for Fame: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1805-1847." Helicon Nine, 81-89.

Jackson, Barbara Garvey. "Oratorios by Command of the Emperor: The Music of Camilla de Rossi." Current Musicology 42 (1986), 7-19.

Killam, Rosemary N. "Cognitive Dissonances: should twentieth-century women composers be grouped with Foucault's mad criminals?" Music Theory Online 3/2(1997).

Kimberlin, Cynthia Tse. "'And Are You Pretty?': Choice, Perception and Reality in Pursuit of Happiness." In Music, Gender, and Culture, ed. Marcia Herndon and Susanne Ziegler. New York: Peters, 1990.[San Francisco Bay women composers]

Kivi, K. Linda. Canadian Women Making Music. Toronto: Green Dragon Press, 1992.

Macdonald, Claudia. "Critical Perception and the Woman Composer: The Early Reception of Piano Concertos by Clara Wieck Schumann and Amy Beach." Current Musicology 55 (1993), 24-55.

McNamee, Ann . "Analyses of music by women composers." A multimedia site which includes an analysis of Piano Sonata II (1953) by Grazyna Bacewicz, originally published in Music Theory Online 0.4, September 1993.

Marshall, Kimberly. "Symbols, Performers, and Sponsors: Female Musical Creators in the Late Middle Ages." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall, 140-168. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Mathiesen, Penelope. "Winds of Yore--Women Woodwind Composers of the 18th Century: Jane Mary Guest." Continuo 15/4 (1991, 6-9.

Miller, Bonny H. "Ladies' Companion, Ladies' Canon? Women Composers in American Magazines from Godey's to the Ladies' Home Journal." In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, ed. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, 156-182. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Pasler, Jann. "The ironies of gender, or virility and politics in the music of Augusta Holmes." Women & Music 2 (1998), 1-25.

Plaut, Linda B. "Grazyna Bacewicz." Women of Note Quarterly 2 (August 1994), 1-5.

Rabson, Carolyn. "Women's Contributions to Music Scholarship." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 3 (1986-1990), 238-292.

Raessler, Daniel M. "Jane Mary Guest." The Music Review 49 (1988), 247-53.

Randall, Annie Janeiro. "Barbara Garvey Jackson: First Generation Feminist Scholar and Publisher of Music by Women." Music Research Forum 8 (1993), 38-43.

Reich, Nancy B. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Richardson, Cynthia and Catherine Smith. Mary Carr Moore, American Composer. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1987.

Ripley, Collette S. "The Chorale Preludes of Ethel Smyth." The American Organist 27/7 (1993), 56.

Robinson, Susan. "Unmasking Peggy Glanville-Hicks." International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 2 (June 1996), 4-7.

Samuel, Rhian. "Women Composers Today: A Personal View." Contact 32 (1988), 53-54.

Schnepel, J. "Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Symphony No. 1: Developing Variation in the 1980's." Indiana Theory Review 10 (1989): 1-19.

Simpson, Anne Key. "Two Outstanding Afro-American Women Composers: Florence Price and Margaret Bonds." New Journal For Music 1/2 (1990), 57-75.

Smart, Mary Ann. "Verdi Sings Erminia Frezzolini." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 33-45.

Smith, Catherine Parsons. "Athena at the Manuscript Club: John Cage and Mary Carr Moore." The Musical Quarterly 79 (1995), 351-67.

Straus, Joseph Nathan. The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Taylor, Timothy D. "The Gendered Construction of the Musical Self: The Music of Pauline Oliveros." The Musical Quarterly 77 (1993), 385-396.

Tick, Judith. Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Tillard, Francoise; Trans. by Naish, Camille. Fanny Mendelssohn. Portland, OR: Amadeus, 1996.

Walker-Hill, Helen. "Black Women Composers in Chicago: Then and Now." Black Music Research Journal 12/1 (1992), 1-23.

Walker-Hill, Helen. "Discovering the Music of Black Women Composers." American Music Teacher 40/1 (1990), 20-23, 63.

Walker-Hill, Helen. "Music by Black Women Composers at the American Music Research Center." American Music Research Center Journal 2 (1992), 23-52.

Wilkins, Margaret Lucy and Caroline Askew. "The University of Huddersfield Department of Music Project: Women composers, 12th-20th centuries." British Journal of Music Education 10/3 (1993), 181-187.

hartig, linda b. violet archer: a bio-bibliography.

kivi, k. linda. canadian women making music.

reich, nancy b. clara schumann: the artist and the woman.

richardson, cynthia and catherine smith. mary carr moore, american composer.

straus, joseph nathan. the music of ruth crawford seeger.

tick, judith. ruth crawford seeger: a composer's search for american music.


Canon Issues

Bohlman, Philip V. "Epilogue: Musics and Canons." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Bohlman, Philip V. "Ethnomusicology's Challenge to the Canon: The Canon's Challenge to Ethnomusicology." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Caswell, Austin B. "Canonicity in Academia: A Music Historian's View." Journal of Aesthetic Education 25/3 (1991), 129-145.

Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Citron, Marcia J. "Gender, Professionalism and the Musical Canon." Journal of Musicology 8/1 (1990), 102-117.

DuPree, Mary H. "Beyond Music in Western Civilization: Issues in Undergraduate Music History Literacy." College Music Symposium 30/2 (1990), 100-105.

Macmillan, M. "Musical Canon Under Fire: The Challenge of Feminist Musicology." Australian Journal of Music Education 1 (1992), 5-12.

Morgan, Robert P. "Rethinking Musical Culture: Canonic Reformulations in a Post-Tonal Age." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Randel, Don Michael. "The Canons in the Musicological Toolbox." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.


Patronage

Botstein, Leon. "Subjects for Debate: Women and Patronage in Music--Remembering Helen Huntington Hull (1893-1976)." The Musical Quarterly 78/4 (1994), 641-645.

Feldman, Ann E. "Being Heard: Women Composers and Patrons at the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition." Notes 47 (Sept. 1990), 7-20.

Fenlon, Ian. "Gender and Generation: Patterns of Music Patronage Among the Este, 1471-1539." In The court of Ferrara and its Patronage, 1441-1598, ed. by Marianne Pade, Lene Wange Petesen, and Daniela Quarta, 213-232. Kacentsbenhavn, Denmark: Museum Tusculanums, 1990. [patronage, Ferrara, Isabelle d'Este]

Locke, Ralph P. "Paradoxes of the Woman Music Patron in America." The Musical Quarterly 78 (Winter 1994), 798-825.

Locke, Ralph P. "Women in American Musical Life: Facts and Questions about Patronage." repercussions 3/2 (1994), 81-95.

Prizer, William F. "Isabella d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia as Patrons of Music: The Frottola at Mantua and Ferrara." Journal of the American Musicological Society 38 (Spring 1985), 1-33.

Prizer, William F. "Renaissance Women as Patrons of Music: The North-Italian Courts." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall, 186-205. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

citron, marcia j. gender and the musical canon.

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(Other) Genres

Film Jazz and Blues Pop, Rock, Rap

Film

Anderson, Leslie N. "Women Film and Television Composers in the United States." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective vol. 3 (1986-1990), 353-370.

Citron, Marcia J. "A Night at the Cinema: Zeffirelli's Otello and the Genre of Film-Opera." The Musical Quarterly 78/4 (1994), 700-741.

Flinn, Carol. "Male Nostalgia and Hollywood Film Music: The Terror of the Feminine." Canadian University Music Review/Revue de musique des universites canadiennes 10/2 (1990), 19-26.

Flinn, Carol. "The Problem of Femininity in Theories of Film Music." Screen 27 (Nov./Dec. 1986), 56-72.

Flinn, Carol. Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Kassabian, Anahid. "Who gets to sound American in Hollywood films?" In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 173-176. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

McLean, Adrienne L. "It's Only That I Do What I Love and Love What I Do: Film Noir and the Musical Woman." Cinema Journal 33 (Fall 1993), 3-16.

Turk, Edward Baron. "Deriding the Voice of Jeanette MacDonald: Notes on Psychoanalysis and the American Film Musical." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 103-119. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.


Jazz and Blues

Antelyes, Peter. "Red Hot Mamas: Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, and the Ethnic Maternal Voice in American Popular Song." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 212-229. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bowers, Jane. "'I Can Stand More Trouble Than Any Little Woman My Size': Observations on the Meanings of the Blues of Estelle 'Mama' Yancey." American Music 11 (Spring 1993), 28-53.

Brown, Elsa Barkley. "Polyrhythms and Improvisation: Lessons for Women's History." History Workshop 31 (1991), 85-90.

Carby, Hazel. "'It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime': The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues." In Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, ed. Ellen Carol DuBois and Vicki Ruiz, 238-249. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Chinitz, David. 'Dance, Little Lady': Poets, Flappers, and the Gendering of Jazz. New York, NY: Garland, 1997.

Cook, Susan Carol. "Listening to Billie Holiday: Intersections of Race and Gender." The Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin 18/3 (1992), 94-96.

Dahl, Linda. "Equal Time: A Historical Overview of Women in Jazz." In America's Musical Pulse: Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society, 205-212. Westport: Greenwood, 1992.

Dahl, Linda. Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

Folio, Cynthia. "An Analysis of Polyrhythm in Selected Improvised Jazz Solos." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth Marvin and Richard Hermann, 103-134. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 1995.

Gushee, Lawrence. "The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Jazz." Black Music Research Journal 14/1 (1994), 1-24.

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. London: Rutgers University Press, 1988.

Leder, Jan. Women in Jazz: A Discography of Instrumental Music1913-1968. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Lieberfeld, Daniel." Million-dollar juke joint: Commodifying blues culture." African American Review 29/2 (summer 1995), 217-221.

Monson, I. "The Problem with White Hipness: Race, Gender, and Cultural Conceptions in Jazz Historical Discourse." Journal of the American Musicological Society 48 (1995), 396ff.

Placksin, Sally. American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present: Their Words, Lives, and Music. New York: Seaview Books, 1982.

Tomlinson, Gary. "Cultural Dialogics and Jazz: A White Historian Signifies." In Disciplining Music: Musicology and Its Canons, ed. Katherine Bergeron and Philip V. Bohlman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Tucker, Sherrie. "Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 13-23.

Unterbrink, Mary. Jazz Women at the Keyboard. Jefferson: McFarland, 1983.

Yurchenco, Henrietta. "'Blues fallin' down like hail': Recorded blues, 1920s-1940s." American music13/4 (1995), 448-469.


Pop, Rock, Rap

Backer, Audrey. "New Lyrics by Women: A Feminist Alternative, With Discography." Journal of Popular Culture 24 (1990), 1-22.

Bordo, Susan. "'Material Girl': The Effacements of Postmodern Culture." Michigan Quarterly Review 29/4 (1990): 669-675.

Bradby, Barbara. "Sampling Sexuality: Gender, Technology and the Body in Dance Music." Popular Music 12/2 (1993), 155-176.

Cooper, Sarah, ed. Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Daniel, Linda. "Canadian women in country music." In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 73-76. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

Forman, Murray. "'Movin' Closer to an Independent Funk': Black Feminist Theory, Standpoint, and Women in Rap." Women's Studies 23/1 (1994), 35-55.

Fuchs, Cynthia J. "Michael Jackson's penis." In Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality, 13-33. Ed. Sue-Ellen Case, Philip Brett, and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Gaar, Gillian. She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll. Preface by Yoko Ono. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1992.

Gaunt, Kyra D. "The Musical Games African-American Girls Play: Understanding Gender and the Black Vernacular in Popular Culture." In Language, Rhythm and Sound: Black Popular Cultures into the 21st Century. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming.

Gaunt, Kyra D. "African-American Women Between Hopscotch and Hip-hop: 'Must Be the Music (That's Turnin' Me On")." In Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media: Global Diversities, ed. Angharad Valdivia, 277-308. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1995.

Goldstein, Lynda. "Revamping MTV: Passing for Queer Culture in the Video Closet." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology, ed. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, 262-279. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

Headlam, Dave. "Does the Song Remain the Same? Questions of Authorship and Identification in the Music of Led Zeppelin." In Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945: Essays and Analytical Studies, ed. Elizabeth Marvin and Richard Hermann, 313-363. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995.

Hisama, Ellie. "Postcolonialism on the Make: The Music of John Mellencamp, David Bowie and John Zorn." Popular Music 12/ 2 (1993), 91-104.

Irving, Katrina. "'I Want Your Hands On Me': Building Equivalences Through Rap Music." Popular Music 12/2 (1993), 105-121.

Lewis, Lisa A. Gender Politics, and MTV: Voicing the Difference. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Lieberfeld, Daniel." Million-dollar juke joint: Commodifying blues culture." African American Review 29/2 (summer 1995), 217-221.

Lueck, Therese L. "One Voice: The Legacy of Women Singers in Popular Music." In America's Musical Pulse: Popular music in Twentieth-Century Society, ed. Kenneth J. Bindas, 221-228. Westport: Greenwood, 1992.

Maki-Kulmala, Ari. "Subculture, rock music, and gender." In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 205-207. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

McClary, Susan. "Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly." Genders 7 (Mar 1990), 1-21. [Madonna]

McClary, Susan. "'This is Not a Story My People Tell': Musical Time and Space According to Laurie Anderson." Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture 21/1 (1989-1990), 104-128. [Laurie Anderson] [cf. Feminine Endings]

McClary, Susan, and Robert Walser. "Start Making Sense! Musicology Wrestles with Rock." In On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word, eds. Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, 277-292. New York, Pantheon, 1990.

Mockus, Martha. "Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k.d. lang." In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, 257-271. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Muto, Jan. "He was the woman of his dreams: Identity, gender, and Kurt Cobain." Popular music and society 19/2 (1995), 69-85.

Negus, Keith. "Sinead O'Connor: Miniature portrait of the artist as an angry young woman. In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 221-224. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

O'Brien, Lucy. "Sisters of Swing: Stardom, Segregation and 1940/50s Pop." In Girls! Girls! Girls!: Essays on Women and Music, ed. Sarah Cooper, 70-85. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

O'Brien, Lucy. She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Outlaw, Paul. "If that's your boyfriend (he wasn't last night)." African American Review 29/2 (summer 1995), 347-350.

Peterson-Lewis, Sonja. "A Feminist Analysis of the Defenses of Obscene Rap Lyrics." Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology 5/1 (Spring 1991), 68-79.

Quinn, Michael. "'Never shoulda been let out the penitentiary': Gangsta rap and the struggle over racial identity." Cultural critique 34(1996), 65-89.

Reynolds, Simon and Joy Press. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock'n'roll. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Roberts, Robin. "Ladies First": Queen Latifah's Afrocentric Feminist Music Video." African American Review 28 (1994), 245-257.

Roberts, Robin. "Music Videos, Performance, and Resistance: Feminist Rappers." Journal of Popular Culture 25 (1991), 41-52.

Ryan, John; Calhoun, Legare H., III; Wentworth, William M. "Gender or genre? Emotion models in commercial rap and country music." Popular Music and Society 20/2 (1996), 121-154.

Scheurer, Timothy E. "Goddesses and Golddiggers: Images of Women in Popular Music of the 1930s." Journal of Popular Culture 24 (Summer 1990), 23-38.

St. Lawrence, Janet S, and Doris J. Joyner. "The Effects of Sexually Violent Rock Music on Males' Acceptance of Violence Against Women." Psychology of Women Quarterly 15/1 (1991), 49-63.

Stein, Arlene. "Crossover dreams: Lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s." In: Out in culture: Gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture. London, England: Cassell, 1995. Durham: Duke U., 1995.

Vickers, Nancy J. "Maternalism and the Material Girl." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 230. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Walser, Robert. "Prince as Queer Poststructuralist." Popular Music and Society 18/2 (1994), 79-89. [Prince, androgyny, postmodernism]

Walser, Robert. Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music. Hannover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993.

Whiteley, Sheila. "Mick Jagger: An analysis of sexuality, style, and image." In Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, 309-312. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995.

Whitesell, Lloyd. "A Joni Mitchell Aviary." Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1/1 (1997), 46-54.

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Feminist Music Pedagogy

Cant, Stephanie. "Women Composers and the Music Curriculum." British Journal of Music Education 7/1 (1990), 5-13.

Coeyman, Barbara. "Applications of Feminist Pedagogy to the College Music Major Curriculum: An Introduction to the Issues." College Music Symposium 36 (1996), 73-90.

Cook, Susan C. "Women, Women's Studies, Music, and Musicology: Issues of Pedagogy and Scholarship." College Music Symposium 29(1989), 93-100.

Lamb, Roberta Kay. "The Possibilities of/for Feminist Music Criticism in Music Education." British Journal of Music Education10/3 (1993), 169-180.

Pryse, Marjorie. "Affective Teaching for Our Lives: Singing in the Feminist Theory Classroom." Women's Studies Quarterly 22 (Spring/Summer 1994), 26-34.

Sandler, Patricia. "Aspects of Women's Life in the School of Music: Pedagogy, Sexualization, Identity." In Community of Music: An Ethnographic Seminar in Champaign-Urbana. Champaign, Il: Elephant & Cat, 1993: 149-158.

Simpson, Helen. "Seeking the Female, Through the Holistic Study of Music." British Journal of Music Education 10/3 (1993), 163-167.

Tillman, June B. "Women's Ways of Knowing." British Journal of Music Education 10/3 (1993), 153-161.

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Status Issues

American Association of University Women. "Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America." 1991.

Block, Adrienne. "The Staus of Women in College Music, 1986-1987." In Women's Studies/Women's Status, CMS Report Number 5, Nancy B. Reich, Chair, CMS Committee on the Status of Women in Music. Boulder, CO: The College Music Society, 1988.

Glickman, Sylvia. "Women's Performance in Music Competitions 1967-1988." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 293-320.

Hetzel, Lori R. and Kay Norton. "Women Choral Conductors at the Collegiate Level: Status and Perspectives." College Music Symposium 33/34 (1993/1994), 23-40.

Jezer, Rhea. "Women in Music Academia: A Statistical and Humanistic Analysis." In Gender, Culture, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society, ed. Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press; London; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1993.

LeFanu, Nicola. "Master Musician: An Impregnable Taboo?" Contact 31 (Autumn 1987): 4-8.

Maris, Barbara English. "A Preliminary Checklist of Selected Films and Videos Featuring Women in Music." In Women's Studies/Women's Status, CMS Report Number 5, Nancy B. Reich, Chair, CMS Committee on the Status of Women in Music. Boulder, CO: The College Music Society, 1988.

Neuls-Bates, Carol. "The Status of Women College Music: Preliminary Studies." College Music Society Report Number 1: Proceedings of the Meeting on Women in the Profession, Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the College Music Society, University of Iowa, Iowa City, February 15, 1975.

O'Neill, Susan A.; Boulton, Michael J. "Boys' and girls' preferences for musical instruments: A function of gender?" Psychology of music 24/2 (1996), 171-183.

Payne, Barbara. "The Gender Gap: Women on Music Faculties in American Colleges and Universities, 1993-1994." College Music Symposium 36 (1996), 91-102.

Renton, Barbara H. "The Status of Women in College Music, 1976-77: A Statistical Study." College Music Society Report Number 2, 1980.

Sandler, Patricia. "Aspects of Women's Life in the School of Music: Pedagogy, Sexualization, Identity." In Community of Music: An Ethnographic Seminar in Champaign-Urbana. Champaign, Il: Elephant & Cat, 1993: 149-158.

Zannino, Milli. "Creating a Musical Career: Reality and Illusion." The Musical Woman: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 3 (1986-1990), 321-336.

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Cultural Studies/Social Function of Music

Adorno, Theodor W. Introduction to the Sociology of Music. Trans. E.B. Ashton. New York: Seabury Press, 1976.

Adorno, Theodor W. Prisms. Trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber. Cambridge: MIT PRess, 1981.

Attali, Jacques. Noise: The Politicial Economy of Music. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1985.

Ballantine, Christopher John. Music and Its Social Meanings. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1984.

Barthes, Roland. Image - music - text. Trans. S. Heath. New York: Hill & Wang, 1977.

Cook, Nicholas. Music, Imagination, and Culture. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Green, Lucy. Music on Deaf Ears: Musical Meaning, Ideology, Education. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.

Grenier, Line. "The Construction of Music as Social Phenomenon: Implications for Deconstruction." Canadian University Music Review 10/2 (1990), 27-47.

Kerman, Joseph. Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Kramer, Lawrence. After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Kramer, Lawrence. Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.

Leppert, Richard. Music and Image: Domesticity, Ideology and Socio-Cultural Formation in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Leppert, Richard and Susan McClary, eds. Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Leppert, Richard D. "Music as a Sight in the Production of Music's Meaning." In Metaphor: A Musical Dimension. Sydney, Australia: Currency, 1991: 69-88.

Maus, Fred. "Recent Ideas and Activities of J. K. Randel and B. Boretz: A New Social Role for Music." Perspectives of New Music 26/1 (1988), 214-.

Norris, Christopher. Music and the Politics of Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Shepherd, John. "Difference and Power in Music." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 46-65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Shepherd, John. Music as Social Text. Cambridge: Polity Press; Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Shepherd, John C., Phil Berden, Graham Vulliamy and Trevor Wishart. Whose Music? A Sociology of Musical Languages. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1980.

Treitler, Leo. Music and the Historical Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Whitesell, Lloyd. "Men with a Past: Music and the 'Anxiety of Influence'." Nineteenth-Century Music 18/2 (1994), 152-167. [Harold Bloom, male sexuality, Freud]

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Ethnomusicology

Briggs, Charles L. "Personal Sentiments and Polyphonic Voices in Warao Women's Ritual Wailing: Music and Poetics in a Critical and Collective Discourse." American Anthropologist 95 (1993), 929-57.

Edwards, J. Michele. "All Women's Musical Communities: Fostering Creativity and Leadership." In Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances, ed. Lisa Albrecht and Rose Brewer, 95-107. Santa Cruz, CA: New Society Publishers, 1990. [JoAnn Falletta] annotation

Giles, Jennifer and John Shepherd. "Theorizing Music's Affective Power." Ethnomusicology in Canada, ed. Robert Witmer, 19. Toronto: Institute for Canadian Music, 1990.

Koskoff, Ellen. "Is Female to Male as Postmodern is to Modern? Implications for a New Ethnomusicology." In Proceedings of the Goteborg Gender and Music Conference, 1996.[cf. Ortner]

Koskoff, Ellen. "Miriam Sings Her Song: The Self and the Other in Anthropological Discourse." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 149-163. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. [cf. book reviews]

Lange, Barbara Rose. "Gender Politics and Musical Performers in the Isten Gyulekezet: A Fieldwork Account." Journal of American Folklore 109 (Winter '96), 60-76.

Meyers, Carol. "The Drum-Dance-Song Ensemble: Women's Performance in Biblical Israel." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Mohammed, Patricia. "Reflections on the Women's Movement in Trinidad: Calypsos, Changes and Sexual Violence." Feminist Review 38 (Summer 1991), 33-47.

Ortner, Sherry B. "Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?" In Women, Culture, and Society, ed. Michelle Rosaldo and Louis Lamphere. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. [cf. Koskoff]

Payne, Helen. "The Presence of the Possessed: A Parameter in the Performance Practice of the Music of Australian Aboriginal Women." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall, 1-20. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Robertson, Carol E. "The Ethnomusicologist as Midwife." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 107-124. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Robertson, Carol. "Singing Social Boundaries Into Place: The Dynamics of Gender and Performance in Two Cultures, Part I." Sonus 10/1 (1989), 59-71.

Robertson, Carol. "Singing Social Boundaries Into Place: The Dynamics of Gender and Performance in Two Cultures, Part II." Sonus 10/2 (1990), 1-13.

Sultan, Nancy. "Private Speech, Public Pain: The Power of Women's Laments in Ancient Greek Poetry and Tragedy." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Magrini, Tullia. "Ballad and gender: Reconsidering narrative singing in Northern Italy." Ethnomusicology online vol. 1, 1995.

Teeter, Emily. "Female Musicians in Pharaonic Egypt." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Tolbert, Elizabeth. "The Voice of Lament: Female Vocality and Performative Efficacy in the Finnish-Karelian Itkuvirsi." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 179-196. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Valdez, Avelardo. "Gender in the Culture of Mexican American Conjunto Music." Gender & Society 10 (April 1996), 148-67.

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