Musicology and Difference - Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship

Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. "Musicology and Difference" brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a question of importance to all the humanistic disciplines.

List of contents

CONTRIBUTORS:
Carolyn Abbate, Philip Brett, Suzanne G. Cusick, Barbara Engh, Ellen Koskoff, Lawrence Kramer, Susan McClary, Mitchell Morris, Nancy B. Reich, Carol E. Robertson, John Shepherd, Ruth Solie, Judith Tick, Leo Treitler, Gretchen A. Wheelock, Elizabeth Wood

About the author

Ruth A. Solie is Professor of Music at Smith College.

Summary

Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from 12th-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth A. Solie
• Assisted by: Ruth A. Solie (Editor), Solie Ruth A. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.1995
• EAN: 9780520201460
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20146-0
• No. of pages: 353
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, Theory of music & musicology, Gender studies, gender groups, Theory of music and musicology