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Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music
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Description for Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music
Paperback. Editor(s): Tsou, Judy S. Num Pages: 256 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 382.
Cecilia, a fifteenth-century Christian martyr, has long been considered the patron saint of music. In this pathbreaking volume, ten of the best known scholars in the newly emerging field of feminist musicology explore both how gender has helped shape genres and works of music and how music has contributed to prevailing notions of gender. The musical subjects include concert music, both instrumental and vocal, and the vernacular genres of ballads, salon music, and contemporary African American rap. The essays raise issues not only of gender but also of race and class, moving among musical practices of the courtly ruling class ... Read more
Cecilia, a fifteenth-century Christian martyr, has long been considered the patron saint of music. In this pathbreaking volume, ten of the best known scholars in the newly emerging field of feminist musicology explore both how gender has helped shape genres and works of music and how music has contributed to prevailing notions of gender. The musical subjects include concert music, both instrumental and vocal, and the vernacular genres of ballads, salon music, and contemporary African American rap. The essays raise issues not only of gender but also of race and class, moving among musical practices of the courtly ruling class ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252063411
SKU
V9780252063411
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Reviews for Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music
Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Editing, 1996. Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Feminist Editing, 1996.
Susan Koppelman Award
Susan Koppelman Award