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

Ellie M. Hisama (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)

Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
22 February 2001
Pages
220
ISBN
9780521640305

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

Ellie M. Hisama (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)

This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers a unique approach to a rich body of music that deserves theoretical scrutiny and provides information on both the lives and music of these fascinating women, skillfully interweaving history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist and the more general reader will find compelling. In this important new study, Ellie Hisama has employed new forms of analysis by which she links musical characteristics with aspects of the composers’ identities. This is revealing both for questions of music and gender and the continuing search for meaning in music. The book thus draws attention to the value of the music of these three composers and contributes to the body of analytical work concerned with the explanation of musical language.

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