Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

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



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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