First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
This beautifully illustrated picture book profiles 26 extraordinary women musicians who collectively span over 1,000 years of music and represent a diversity of cultures, races, professions, and abilities.
The second edition of the “milestone” work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (College Music Symposium).
The handbook falls into six parts. Part I serves as an introduction to the rich variety of subject matter the reader can expect to encounter in the handbook as a whole.
Back in 1989, Finnegan had also suggested that women felt relatively comfortable in the folk clubs she attended in ... the Folk Revival had succeeded ... but unless its fundamental concepts of the Folk and folk culture were rejected, ...
From Janis Joplin to P.J. Harvey, Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture.
The field of popular music production is overwhelmingly male dominated. Here, Paula Wolfe discusses gendered notions of creativity and examines the significant under-representation of women in studio production.
This collection is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine black women’s negotiation of race and gender in African American music. Contributors address black women’s activity in musical arenas that pre-...
This is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of musical genres and professions, ideal for students in Music and Gender Studies courses.
This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: those who offer a new way of thinking about the vast spectrum of women in music.
Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.