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A century of composition by women : music against the odds
Title
A century of composition by women : music against the odds / Linda Kouvaras, Maria Grenfell, Natalie Williams, editors.
ISBN
9783030955564
3030955567
9783030955571
Publication
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Physical Description
xxxi, 437 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Summary
This book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth-century women composers. This collection of essays balances narratives of struggle, artistic prowess, and of "breaking through" the obstacles in the profession. Part I: Creative Work Then and Now illuminates historical and present-day womens composition and various iterations and conceptions of the "feminine voice" Part II: The State of the Industry in the Present Day provides solutions from the frontline to sector inequities; and Part III: Creating; Collaborating: Composer and Performer Reflections offers personal stories of current creation in music. A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds draws together topical issues in feminist musicology over the past century. This volume provides insight into the professional and compositional procedures of creative women in music and stands to be relevant for composers, performers, industry professionals, students, and feminist and musicological scholars for many years to come. Dr Linda Kouvaras, musicologist, composer and pianist, is Professor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, with full artist APRA-AMCOS representation. Her research interests centre on gender issues in music and musical post/modernism (particularly Australian composition), and she is a piano examiner for the Australian Music Examinations Board. Dr Maria Grenfell is a composer and academic living in Hobart, Tasmania. An Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, she is widely commissioned by orchestras and chamber ensembles in Australia, New Zealand, and internationally, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Dr Natalie Williams is a composer, academic and artistic manager. Her music has been commissioned and performed in Australia, the United States and Europe. A performing arts leader, she has worked as an academic dean and also held faculty positions in music theory and composition at the University of Georgia and the Australian National University.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 09, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Composing Womens (Very) Long 100-year Fight: Evolutions, Illuminations, Solutions, Linda Kouvaras
Part I Creative Work: Then and Now
Chapter 2 Synaesthetic Associations and Gendered Nature Imagery: Female Agency in the Piano Music of Amy Beach, Sabrina Clarke
Chapter 3 "Australian Bush Songs " Bas Multimodal Discourse: The Remarkable Collaboration of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie Rentoul, and Georgette Peterson, Johanna Selleck
Chapter 4 The 1940s Australian Ballet that Far Outstripped ... Swan Lake in Popular Appeal : Esther Rofes Ground-Breaking Ballet, Sea Legend, Emma Townsend
Chapter 5 Italians, Indians and Indigenous People: Innovative Themes and Materials Found in the Operas of Early-C20th Australian Women Composers, Jeanell Carrigan
Chapter 6 "Conjuring Up the Magic" Helen Giffords Compositional Passage to the Creation of Fable for Solo Harp, Jacinta Dennett
Chapter 7 Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories: The Revivification of the Colonial Piano Manifested Through a New Work by Catherine Milliken, Gabriella Smart
Chapter 8 Beyond Exploitation: Feminist Satire in Jennifer Walshe's XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!!, Jaslyn Robertson
Chapter 9 Hildegards Daughters: Women Composers "Overcoming Their Astonishment ', Natalie Williams
Chapter 10 Is the Category of the "Woman Artist " Still Helpful?, Susan Best
Part II The State of the Industry in the Present Day
Chapter 11 "Dear Women Composers in Australia (and Beyond)" : A Letter from a Music Critic), Rosalind Appleby
Chapter 12 Programming Orchestral Repertoire by Women Composers: Challenges and Opportunity, Joanna Drimatis
Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Gender in the Australian Screen Music Industry: An Insider Perspective, Felicity Wilcox
Chapter 14 Programming with Gender Parity in Call-Based New Music Festivals, Alice Bennett
Chapter 15 Mentoring Emerging Women Composers, Maria Grenfell
Chapter 16 Content Targets Work: A Practical Example of Changing Behaviours and Processes in Programming Women Composers, Naomi Johnson and Matthew Dewey
Chapter 17 Working Towards Gender Equality and Empowerment in Australian Music Culture, Cat Hope
Part III Creating; Collaborating: Composer and Performer Reflections
Chapter 18 The Book of Daughters and The Sonic aGender Guitar Project: Inclusivity as Guiding Principle, Lisa MacKinney
Chapter 19 When We Speak: Creating "Something Personal" in a Three-Level Collaboration, Lisa Cheney
Chapter 20 "It Gently Makes Itself Known... : A Composer and a Violist Discuss their Collaboration on Cranes, Phoebe Green
Chapter 21 Childrens Opera in the Twenty-First Century: The Child-Centred Approach to Writing, Emma Jayakumar
Chapter 22 Making Music in A Chorus of Women, Glenda Cloughley and Johanna McBride.
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