Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon

Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon
ISBN-10
0521028434
ISBN-13
9780521028431
Category
Music
Pages
220
Language
English
Published
2006-11-02
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Ellie M. Hisama

Description

This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers information on both their lives and music and skillfully interweaves history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist and the more general reader will find compelling. Ellie Hisama suggests that recognising the impact of a composer's identity on the music itself imparts valuable ways of hearing and understanding these works and breaks important new ground towards constructing a feminist music theory.

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