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Musicology and Difference

Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023

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Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a question of importance to all the humanistic disciplines.


Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Differen

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Solie Ruth A. :

Ruth A. Solie is Professor of Music at Smith College.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction: On "Difference"

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    Ruth A. Solie
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  • Systems of Difference
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    Gender and Other Dualities of Music History

    23
    Leo Treitler
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    Difference and Power in Music

    46
    John Shepherd
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    Loving It: Music and Criticism in Roland Barthes

    66
    Barbara Engh
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  • Cultural Contexts of Difference
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    Charles Ives and Gender Ideology

    83
    Judith Tick
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    The Ethnomusicologist as Midwife

    107
    Carol E. Robertson
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    Women as Musicians: A Question of Class

    125
    Nancy B. Reich
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  • Interpretive Strategies
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    Miriam Sings Her Song: The Self and the Other in Anthropological Discourse

    149
    Ellen Koskoff
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    Lesbian Fugue: Ethel Smyth's Contrapuntal Arts

    164
    Elizabeth Wood
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    Reading as an Opera Queen

    184
    Mitchell Morris
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    Schwarze Gredel and the Engendered Minor Mode in Mozart's Operas

    201
    Gretchen A. Wheelock
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  • Critical Readings
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    Opera; or, the Envoicing of Women

    225
    Carolyn Abbate
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    Britten's Dream

    259
    Philip Brett
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    Of Women, Music, and Power: A Model from Seicento Florence

    281
    Suzanne G. Cusick
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    Carnaval, Cross-Dressing, and the Woman in the Mirror

    305
    Lawrence Kramer
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    Narrative Agendas in "Absolute" Music: Identity and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony

    326
    Susan McClary
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    Contributors

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    Index

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November 15, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780520916500
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Reprint 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520916500
eBook ISBN: 9780520916500
Keywords for this book
musicology; gender and sexuality; ethnomusicology; feminism; gender studies; systems of difference; musical community; francesca caccini; charles ives; mozart; brahms; roland barthes; seicento florence; ethel smyth; schwarze gredel; music history; nonwestern music; cultural contexts; gender ideology; anthropology; 12th century monks; opera queens; gender; power; opera; cross dressing; third symphony; identity; women musicians; carnival; western music; music
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