Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

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

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. A web version is also available. [McClary, reviews]

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." by Margaret Myers." 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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