Book description
This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music
features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more
musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside
Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and
Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas
for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.
Contributors
Adrienne Fried Block is a musicologist who has long specialized in
music by American women. She is author of Amy Beach, Passionate
Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer.
Michael J. Budds is a musicologist on the faculty of the University
of Missouri, Columbia. He is author of Jazz in the Sixties: The
Expansion of Musical Resources and Techniques.
Marcia Citron, Professor of Musicology at Rice University, is author
of the award-winning volume Gender and the Musical Canon and two other
books on women in music, Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn
and Cecile Chaminade: A Bio-bibliography. She also works on operas on
film and has written Opera on the Screen.
J. Michele Edwards, conductor and musicologist, is Professor of Music
and also teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. Recent projects include a
recording of Marta Ptaszynska's Holocaust Memorial Cantata, essays
about Julia Perry and Frederique Petrides, articles for the Revised
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and presentations about
Japanese women composers. She is currently preparing a book about Ruth
Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931).
S. Kay Hoke chairs the Division of Fine Arts at Brevard College in
the mountains of North Carolina. Currently she serves as a national
workshop leader for Music! World! Opera!, a program sponsored by Opera
America, and is writing a book on Douglas Moore's opera The Ballad of
Baby Doe.
Barbara Garvey Jackson is a professional violinist and Professor
Emerita of Music at the University of Arkansas. She is founder and
publisher of Clar-Nan Editions, a firm specializing in music by women
of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The late L. JaFran Jones, an ethnomusicologist, was head of the music
department at the University of Toledo, Ohio.
Leslie Lassetter has published articles on Philip Glass and Meredith
Monk. Her current research is in English country dance in America,
with a focus on the work of Pat Shaw. She has graduate degrees from
the University of Cincinnati and the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York.
Renee Cox Lorraine teaches at the University of Tennessee in
Chattanooga. Her articles on music aesthetics have been published in
several journals.
Ann N. Michelini is Professor of Classics in the College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Cincinnati.
Karin Pendle is Professor of Musicology at the College-Conservatory
of Music, University of Cincinnati. Her publications include several
studies on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera.
Nancy B. Reich is working on nineteenth-century topics and is
preparing a new edition of her book Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman.
Catherine Roma is Associate Professor of Music at Wilmington (Ohio)
College and the founding director of MUSE, Cincinnati's Women's Choir,
and Ujima, a male chorus, at Lebanon State Prison (Ohio). Her DMA
thesis for the University of Cincinnati concerned choral music by
British women.
Robert Whitney Templeman is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at
the University of Cincinnati. His specializations include music of
Latin America and the African diaspora. He has conducted extensive
research among people of African ancestry in Bolivia and among Quechua
and mestizo people of the highland Bolivian Andes.
Linda Whitesitt, Music Education Specialist, coordinates string
programs for MiamiDade County Public Schools. Her writings on women's
support of music and the arts have appeared in several journals.
Robert Zierolf is Professor of Music Theory at the University of
Cincinnati and heads the Division of Music Theory, History, and
Composition there.
